Nature Group

 This year we are getting together with some friends to study nature on Fridays. I am a huge fan of nature walks and most of our Science is taught through nature study. I was very excited when my friend MaryBeth suggested getting our families together to start a nature group. Last Friday we had our first nature group. We met at Elgin Heritage Park. We walked the trail. The huge highlight of our time was seeing a seal in the river!! He had swam up the river to snack on the Coho Salmon. There was a man walking the trail who was able to share his knowledge of seals and salmon with us moms and our kids. I love this style of learning.

We then had lunch together and talked about all of the places we plan to visit with our nature group this fall. So exciting!

Peter and Suzanna enjoyed walking on the trail together.

We stopped by the heritage farm and the kids took turns pumping water from the well.

Below are some other pictures from the past weeks:

Multitasking :)

Math time. Karis is crazy excited about having her own math book this year.

I love my boys.

On Saturday night our church had a service geared towards families. I love family inclusive church services. 

Buddies.

This little guys is starting to move around quite a bit. And he is incredibly cute.

The other day Peter rode his bike all the way to Robson Park. And he actually rode it like a strider bike, which meant it did not take us an hour to get to the park. Yay Peter!! And your helmet is on it's way... poor 4th child ;)

Yesterday the weather was beautiful so we went on an extended nature walk. God put on a real show for us. On our walk we saw 4 raccoons, 4 hummingbirds, a heron landing in the pond, fish in the stream, and a frog. Then we got to the park to see a salmon exhibit set up. There was a university student there who was planting trees and looking to share all of her knowledge about salmon. We were a perfect match :) Apparently the salmon spawn right at the creek right near our house. It was the kind of morning that made my homeschooling heart burst.

Juliette always loves making babies giggle :)