The new blinds, of which I am thrilled as this window has sun all day!
We had the children in class do some planting. They planted green beans, peas, butternut squash, viola's and pansies. What for? The flowers we are hoping will be nice and healthy plants to send home for Mothers day, the veggies go along with our gardening theme. The beans came up in 3 days. WOW! the kids are impressed so am I.
We set the containers outside, weather permitting, during our outside time and bring them in at the end of class. The new blinds allow us to put them in front of a window where they will get the warmth of the sun but not the hot rays.
We are still waiting for our caterpillars and silkworms, but I do expect them any day now. We did get our praying mantis egg and it is as big as it looks. I checked out some books from the children's section of the public library for the children. They are just amazed to watch this egg just sit there. It is in an aquarium (minus the water) for safe keeping from little hands that want to touch everything they see. I do have plastic, life size replicas of the egg and the praying mantis so they can touch. It is fun to just watch the hundreds of little critters come out of the egg, it is like an explosion.
Since Elizabeth has been home Chloe is delighting in going outside on a daily basis. She actually looks like she has lost a little weight. This cat weighs around 16 pounds, she is just fat.
We let the boys out also, they don't know what to do ~ especially Jonah. Jade does, he just runs away or hides in the bushes and we have to flush him out. They also enjoy the 70 plus degree weather we are having now.
We set the containers outside, weather permitting, during our outside time and bring them in at the end of class. The new blinds allow us to put them in front of a window where they will get the warmth of the sun but not the hot rays.
We are still waiting for our caterpillars and silkworms, but I do expect them any day now. We did get our praying mantis egg and it is as big as it looks. I checked out some books from the children's section of the public library for the children. They are just amazed to watch this egg just sit there. It is in an aquarium (minus the water) for safe keeping from little hands that want to touch everything they see. I do have plastic, life size replicas of the egg and the praying mantis so they can touch. It is fun to just watch the hundreds of little critters come out of the egg, it is like an explosion.
Since Elizabeth has been home Chloe is delighting in going outside on a daily basis. She actually looks like she has lost a little weight. This cat weighs around 16 pounds, she is just fat.
We let the boys out also, they don't know what to do ~ especially Jonah. Jade does, he just runs away or hides in the bushes and we have to flush him out. They also enjoy the 70 plus degree weather we are having now.
3 comments:
Enjoy your nice weather!
Blessings
It is always fun to see our quickly the beans germinate.
We're hoping for spring weather to come back and soak all of that snow into the parched ground! But they say more is coming.
My sister recently planted soem bean seeds for school, and they came up super fast; we were all really excited! :) Looks like the kids are going to have lots of fun watching everything (include the buggies) grow. :D
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