Awesome Outdoors/Boys and Sticks!!

Boys and Sticks!!

I suppose it is just the simplicity of it all that I love the best, boys and their sticks!! I tried for many years to NOT let him play with sticks. The whole, you'll poke your eye out concept. But by and by, that is the only thing that he was truly interested in, while playing outside! He twirls, jumps, flies through the air, marches, and so on. Just he and his stick! I don't know if it's just a mom thing, but oh how I love to just simply sit and watch, my boy with his stick. I just happily gaze out the window to see what he will do next, with that stick and incredible imagination of his.

Gifts to and from Nature/Pine-Cone Bird Feeder

Rootbeer applying the peanut-butter to his pine-cone. He made the pine-cone feeder at the Department of Conservation Program-Gifts to and from Nature earlier today.

Rolling the peanut-buttered pine-cone into the bird seed.

Hanging up his bird feeder. Enjoy birds!!

Homeschool Co-op/A visit to The Campbell House Museum

Front View

Backyard, view of left side of house.

Backyard, Right view of house.

Backyard view of 33 room house.

Drawing a map.

Sharing his map drawing.

Learning about maps and how they were made.

Preparing to draw the maps.

A picture of an early map drawn from the Campbell book dairies.

Discussing Maps with one our tour guides.

The sitting room.

A very expensive dress purchased for a visit to meet the president.

Bells for each room for the servants to bring things.

The Campbell's were fur traders. This is a beaver pelt.

An old-time refrigerator.

An old stove.

The original kitchen cupboard and original items.

The Carriage House.

Department of Conservation-Gifts to and from Nature

Collecting items for our Nature Collection Projects.

Some of the items Rootbeer collected.

Creating with sticks and twine.

Rootbeer's gifts from Nature Collection.

Preparing for his presentation!

Presenting his stick decoration.

Presenting his Lady Bug House. The large stick collection the his right is also part of his collection! When we get home we are going to finish our pine-cone bird feeder that Rootbeer started (see previous post)!

Another view of his ladybug house.