Outdoor Hour Challenge #4

For this Outdoor Hour Challenge, we were supposed to pick an area of nature to focus on for the next 6-8 weeks, take a nature walk, discuss/research what we saw that related to our area of focus and make a journal entry. But here's the problem...my children can't agree on a focus area!

This doesn't surprise me as they seem to take great delight in being opposite of each other, but it can be frustrating when we're trying to do group projects. Sydney wants to study birds because she is trying to write a movie script about birds. Delaney wants to do trees. I'm not really sure WHY she is so insistant on trees (aside form the aforementioned desire to be opposite of her big sister) but she is not willing to budge.

Needless to say, we took this week's nature walk without a focus area, but a good time was had by all.

We went back to the park that we visited on our last walk - only this time we went down to the beach area and walked along the shore.

This isn't a great picture, but we saw a crane standing in the bay.

The girls found lots of rocks...

snails....

and butterfly wings.

I think what I'll do to settle the big "area of focus" debate is just let Sydney work on birds, Delaney can learn about trees and Sadey and I will do our best to keep up with them both. It would be easier if they were doing the same thing, but I think we can handle both topics - at least in a basic way.

It'll work.