Our challenge for today was to find webs. We looked in all the usual places, our neighbor's yard the corners of the house, under the slide and in the playhouse. We did find some cob webs in the playhouse where we sat to draw them and read an excerpt from The Handbook of Nature Study. Then we headed down to the "trees" which is where our treehouse is. We quickly found evidence of leaf-miners and galls which was our challenge for two weeks ago. Brady found a broken egg shell then just "had" to climb the tree to find the nest. On the way up the tree he did find a web, and the broken nest. We figure it must be a mockingbird nest since we found a feather under the tree that would have belonged to one.
The boys then spent time drawing the webs in their nature journals. I think they really enjoyed this one, plus all the extra stuff we found.
Come to my house. We have webs out our ears. :P
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