Love in our backyard…of the little green moth variety

We saw these two little green moths clinging to the tip of a blade of grass this morning while out for a short nature walk in our backyard.  

 

 

 

Our lessons: Honey bees

We did a very fun lesson block about bees. This was an interdisciplinary lesson. Included was math, language, nature study, art, form drawing, painting, cooking,and others. The lessons were based around The Story Of Hildy Honeybee, an original story I wrote for the lessons. It is a 4 part story which tells of the life stages of a honey bee from a tiny egg to adult. I did a huge amount of reading on the subject so that I would have a thorough understanding of the facts, and it was good that I did because the questions were many. I have included links to many of the pages I gleaned the information from. This block took almost 3 weeks for us. I used the standard Waldorf 3 day rhythm: Day 1 Story, day 2 artistic realm, then on the 3rd day academic realm. We learned a few new bee verses, and a couple of funny bee riddles ( youcan find them in the info links). We had a honey tasting. You can really taste the difference between the different flowers. We  made a no bake cookie called Honey Crispies, a type of rice crispy snack. Both of these activities were met with great enthusiasm. We worked on the number 6 all throughout this unit since the comb is hexagonal, and the bee has six legs. We skip counted, and tossed the ball to the 6 times table. In form drawing we drew freehand hexagons, six sided stars, and a form that mimics the bee’s waggle dance that we learned about in part 4 (see pic below).  Our spelling words came from our lessons. We do a spelling list each week. Our words were

A favorite book, and a nature walk

One of our favorite books for fall is “Woody, Hazel, and Little Pip” by Elsa Beskow. It’s about 3 mischievous forest children & their day of adventure.

 

Free printable leaf bag for nature walks

I found this great leaf collecting bag at nature detectives. It has pictures of several  leaves on the bag for identifying the leaves you collect on your fall nature walks. You just print, cut, & paste. Check it out. They have  a few other fun things too.