Entries in spring (127)
Spring bucket list 2017
Everybody talks about their summer bucket lists, but how many people have must-do lists for other seasons? It's definitely a busy time, especially if your kids are in school, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the many wonderful things about this season of rebirth and growth. Spring is the time to see migrating birds, to start your garden from seeds, to get in lots of outdoor activity before it gets summer hot and sticky. There are lots of great reasons to embrace this time, and here are a few of our favorites:
Start seedlings inside
Plant spring veggies outside 
Avian migrators: collect them all!
Listen to the frogs
Go in search of fungi (especially morels!)
Practice wildflower identification
Hike Magee Marsh
Festifools Parade 
Play in the rain
And, just before it's over...strawberry shortcake
Field studies
Science! Unlike art, science is a subject I feel almost completely at home with, especially when it comes to the life sciences thread. I think one of my favorite times of year, or favorite annual school studies, is the time for spring science, for getting outside again and witnessing nature come back to life. We always start our weekly hikes just before the earth really starts to warm up so that we can watch weekly changes happening in the spaces around us. Later we look for signs that the bird migration will come through and we go in search of as many migrating species as we can find, a "collect them all" that is pock-book and earth friendly.
And we also use this time to look at life on a microscopic scale, an activity which makes us feel very, very large all of a sudden.
homeschooling, science, spring