Green Hour #4

This week we jumped into Green Hour Challenge #4 and LOVED it. :D
We are supposed to choose a focus and have decided that we will look at flowers, both wild and in the garden.
This week the thing that caught our fancy was cherry trees. We saw a beautiful one and made friends with the lady whose garden it is. She loves nature and would like to participate in our study. The kids and I created a cherry tree lapbook as well as their journal pages. We have another book of pressed flowers and have added a few cherry blossoms to there. We will be going to show our friend on our next visit when we plan to go to the park and see what flowers we can find among the mud. :D
I am a lamination geek so I created a cherry tree life cycle poster and sent it off to work with DH to be laminated. I see a collection of laminated nature posters being added to our other science ones.
We went on a few more walks after our cherry tree one where we observed daffodils, a spider which Megan (6) insists is a black widow even though it wasn't black and heavy, heavy rain. Douglas said excitedly "It's H2Oing!!" However our favourite observation was a crow with a worm hanging from it's mouth. It was flying overhead so we didn't have too much time to watch. We read about crows in A Handbook of Nature Study , Crows and Crows!: Strange and Wonderful. We are in the process of a crow lapbook and will probably complete it on the weekend.
We haven't done any chemistry or physics for months and I'm not feeling motivated to do it so for now our only science will be nature study. We've had a great time with it so far and the kids are very excited to take DH for a walk tomorrow.:D