We've been busy lately getting ready for a big garale sale and camping trip all at the same time but we have made some cool nature finds lately to share.
The pics are of a wasp nest Rich found and sprayed. He is finally getting the hang of this homeschooling/study what you find/nature thing. He brought it over and went through it with the kids. They pulled out different wasps in different stages of development. Some where fully formed and ready to come out , some where still larva and some inbetween. We also got to see the stinger up close. It was all really interesting!
Last week while watering some trees we planted on our lot, we dipped up some tadpoles out of the pond. We ended up bringing a few home in a bucket. So far, they are still alive. We give them goldfish food and have to get fresh pond water every few days. We have read that you can't just put in tap water. Since we are going to be out of town next week, I wonder if any of the grandparents will be willing to babysit tadpoles??? Anyway, it has been fun. We have read about them a little bit and drawn the life cycle in our new nature sketchbooks.
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