If you’ve been following my posts at all, you know we’ve been exploring marine invertebrates in the kelp. Well, for my birthday, my family gave me a new microscope and life just hasn’t been the same. Here’s one of the amazing things we discovered under the microscope, appropriately set to Chopin of course 🙂 Enjoy!
Microscopic Tube Snails (Spirorbis sp.) to Chopin Read More »
What could be better than a day at the aquarium? A washed up hunk of kelp on the beach! All of the following creatures were found hiding in the kelp. You’ll never look at kelp on the beach the same way again 🙂 anemone nudibranch something orange a brittle star spit out anemone some kind
Kelp finds – September 2013 Read More »
What do you think of these quotes about teaching the scientific method? “I have been told, on good authority, that the essence of scientific method is never formulated in lectures addressed to, or text-books intended for, young teachers. …what is most necessary for the children to learn is not what is the last new theory
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In case you missed Part I, you can find it here. Since that post, I was able to obtain a copy of The Changing Year by F.M. Haines, the book mentioned by Charlotte Mason in Vol. 6 and her programmes as an aid to the “great deal of out-of-door work” her students did in a
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Jeanne and her daughter Jemimah arrived from Australia today for a brief visit before heading off cross country to visit other AO friends. Here’s the wildest creature our girls found today while playing in the sand at the beach!
In which the kids find a marine worm with an eversible pharynx Read More »
“Those first-born affinities That fit our new existence to existing things.” Charlotte Mason quotes this more than once, it’s a verse from William Wordsworth’s poem Prelude describing something I’m not so sure any of us really know how to quantify. What does she mean by it? She begins her entire section devoted to the task
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You can find Part II here: http://livingcminca.blogspot.com/2013/07/choose-some-special-study-part-ii.html In describing her Science curriculum in Volume 6, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason wrote: They are expected to do a great deal of out-of-door work in which they are assisted by The Changing Year, admirable month by month studies of what is to be seen out-of-doors.
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Our friend’s 9 year old daughter noticed this holdfast at the beach today. She also found the handy big red bucket floating in the ocean 🙂 Looking closer at the holdfast, we found some pretty amazing things… Brittle Stars Lots of brittle stars 🙂 Can you tell what this is? Here’s a video of it.
Nature Observations June 13, 2013 Read More »
A quick post on my observations this week. I have no idea what this plant is… But look at the beautiful way it seeds – suspended between two wings while the holding frames move further and further apart. I’ve never seen a plant that seeds this way; such a beautifully imagined process and the orderliness
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I have a backlog of photos from this month’s nature days so this will be more of a photolog than a blog post. Lots of interesting things to see! This is a firewheel flower my son found that had an unusual extra flower growing out of the side of it. This set of pictures is
Nature Study Co-op Photolog February 2013 Read More »