the wind

grass waves
in the breeze.
 
blustery,
moves the trees.
 
frantic flapping
backwards flying.
 
across the ground
shadows moving.
 
shiver shiver
makes you cold
 
strong strong
blows leaves along
 
trees bend
water ripples
 
pushes pushes
whistles whistles

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icky sticky sticks

As we were eating lunch we noticed a speckledy brown thrush tweak a worm from the earth. (He was NOT an early bird, yet he definitely caught a worm). Watching it fly away, we followed its course to the base of a nearby tree where a baby thrush was waiting. At the sight of food, [...]

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two days, two beaches

Yesterday in the late afternoon Dadda spontaneously decided to take us all to Cornwallis Beach. Only we ended up at Laingholm, because it was closer and it was nearly dinnertime.
The find of the day was crabs. CRABS CRABS CRABS. Big crabs, little crabs and middle-sized crabs. We knocked one rock and half a dozen scuttled [...]

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a picture is worth a thousand words

 
               
            

so we don’t need to write the history of our creation experiences…this is a nice little catch-up….Entomological Society field trips, a bird hide we made, finding creatures, collecting honey, observing butterfly life cycle, star-gazing, rock pool exploring, bush walking, rock collecting, lunar eclipse watching, ghecko catching, planting……

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in the beginning

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Our first ever memory verse.
In the beginning we learnt
“All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.”
Our first ever hymn.
Beyond the beginning we discovered great and small nature journal
The first ever online nature journal we had seen….and were [...]

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