So my precious husband gave me a lovely red rose for Valentine's Day. But alas, it is now crumbling and so-being the clever homeschooler I try to aspire to be (but fail to be actually, a lot of the time), we are going to dissect it today. Yes-my rose will have served two purposes. One as a token of love and affection-the other as a great botany specimen. So the table has been set with the goodies needed to disassemble it so the boy can see the parts of the plant we have been learning about for the last several weeks. Since it is winter here, finding plant life to investigate has been a challenge. Thanks to Valentine's Day-we're going to have a real live, up close and personal view of a flower and its seed boxes, stamen, pistols, dust bags, etc.
Of course, the boy will be drawing what he finds in his plant book we have created for this study.
Using the ebook:
Plant Life in Field and Garden by Arabella Buckley (thru the
Yesterday's Classics collection which I reviewed a few years back-you can read about that program
here), we have discovered a lot of interesting facts and along with the study notes provided in the Heart of Dakota program for the Creation to Christ program, this is shaping up to be a fun study.
Hey, if you are interested in the Yesterday's Classics, they have a sale going on until February 28, 2013 at half off! That is an awesome price for all those books! I use it all the time-and I don't have an eReader, but just have uploaded the free Kindle PC app to my computer.
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