This Week's Nature Study

I really did plan to follow the Outdoor Hour Challenges for our nature study, however it seems that the girls have other ideas.  This week they have been fascinated with all of the ladybugs (ladybird beetles) that they have found outside, as well as inside, our house.  So, I have decided that our nature study this week will be on ladybird beetles.  We will gather some information from Anna Botsford Comstock's Handbook of Nature Study, pages 364-366, and maybe some other sources, and we will go out in search of ladybird beetles. Although it should be rather easy to find them (unlike those woolly bears that we have yet to find).   I do think, however, that we will include the assignment from Outdoor Hour Challenge #2: Using Your Words while we do this.  I am looking forward to it!