The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess Mater Amabilis™Level 1A  recommends The Burgess Bird Book for Children  ...

We read from a book of poetry about once a week just for beauty and enjoyment as part of our cultural studies loop . Just for the blog re...

Today, Second Daughter and I read about the Brown Thrasher in The Burgess Bird Book for Children . A few hours later, I watched a pair them ...

American Dipper in Wyoming, not Kansas We have recently acquired a stand for more bird feeders and have been enjoying the increased tra...

Second Daughter (age 7) spent an afternoon drawing a wood duck after the most recent issue of Nature Friend arrived. She's certainly ...

A few weeks ago, Kansas Dad put out a bird feeder for us. It's just outside our kitchen window and near a scraggly bush I grudgingly a...

I'm behind on posting our selections for Reading Around the World in Picture Books. These are the books we read in 2013-2014 (two year...

unrelated to our science studies, but taken at a science museum I wrote about our loop scheduling a few days ago. You can read that post...

In the spring, we had a pair of cardinals nest just outside our kitchen window. The children could sit at the table and look down into the n...

In the past week: a Baltimore Oriole and a Scarlet Tanager . Today, I watched a Red-Headed Woodpecker off and on for most of the morning...