Ocean studies applied

After a trip to the Beach in California- we spent a week or so learning about Oceans and various Ocean animals. Doodle and I rowed the book Gramma's Walk using the wonderful lesson plans in Five in a Row and the lapbook goodies from Homeschool Share . Roo and I rowed Hello Ocean- with lessons from Homeschool Share and did a lapbook/notebook thing from there. We had a great time learning about Barnacles, Salt water, and lots more. Roo with his salt water vs. fresh water experiment. What's best is when life flows so smoothly with our school studies- Last weekend we went fishing over the mountain. Bug caught a nice size trout, (Ben and I caught some nice size fish too)

Bug and Doodle were exploring around the area- when Doodle got all excited- he said he found a crab. No- not a crab- but what he did find was a crawdad- a creyfish.

Ben caught it for him- he wasn't so sure he was going to touch it. But he was very excited to cook it up and EAT it.

We looked up crawdads online, and drew picture of them for our nature notebooks. It was great!

Then Last Sunday afternoon we took a drive out to Antelope Island We hiked around a bit- and walked out on the Beach (or as close as you can get to a beach living in the Desert! We'll have to come back in the summer when it's hot enough to actually get wet.

The boys had fun skipping rocksRoo drew a smiley face in the sand :D"Mom.... PLEASE let me get wet." My reply- "NO! It's freezing cold and windy today!"

And in full circle- Roo told us all about how this water is salty- and an egg could float in the Great Salt Lake. :D