Using Our Words - Challenge #2

We started out today's nature study by looking at the research I had done last week on walnuts, and then running outside to check our walnut tree - and to harvest our walnuts. The kids cracked them open and I tasted them. Not great, but ok, more like, not quite ready to eat. They are supposed to dry for two weeks, and then I bet they will be better tasting. This is the first time in 3 years at this house that we have harvested walnuts.

It was a bit chilly outside - and we didn't take the time to dress for the weather so our time outside today was in about 5 minutes intervals, but after we sat wrapped up in blankets we came up with some great words.


R- wind rustling leaves
M - whistling wind
K - tall trees
M - chill in the air
R- soft, green prickly grass
I - hard nuts
R - brown, crunchy weeds
E - Yellow swaying leaves
E - Birds chirping, cold wind
E - leaves swaying
E - cold wind
K - wind, green grass

I'm glad that this is a challenge, and we can keep plugging away at it each week.