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Category Archives: science
right off the bookshelf files IX: tadpoles
This post was supposed to be dedicated to our real-life-learning about tadpoles. Instead it will be dedicated to the memory of our tadpoles. All four of them. None of whom made it to frog-dom. Any comments about how to keep … Continue reading
right off the bookshelves files V: caught
We were quietly working on some handcrafts, chatting together, enjoying the relatively few interruptions, Mrs E and I…….when a shriek pierced the stillness and we both leapt to our feet. “We’ve got one,” the shrieker continued as the mob of … Continue reading
handbook of nature study
Recently we purchased Anna Comstock’s tome, A Handbook of Nature Study. Although I first became aware of it many years ago (and indeed, it was first published even before my grandparents were born), it has taken until now to actually … Continue reading
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from inside one of our own books
Sorting through boxes of random papers, I came across a short journal we kept in the spring of 2003 when we looked after one of Rob’s colleague’s farms for a few weeks. There were six children aged eight and under. … Continue reading
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Galen meets Archimedes
Understanding that my star rating system is highly subjective and peculiarly personal, I award Jeanne Bendick’s books “Galen and the Gateway to Medicine” and “Archimedes and the Door of Science” three stars each. Both are well-researched accounts; Galen deals with the … Continue reading
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Creation Journals
I discovered a real gem in “Keeping a Nature Journal”, an inspiring and practical how-to book, which is full of easily-accessed advice by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth. It paints a broad picture of nature journalling and then fills out … Continue reading
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staples
Bread and rice. Two books. One a delightful read, one with interesting information, but not at all read-aloud-friendly. The Bread Book by Carolyn Meyer is full of slightly quirky line drawings (by Trina Schart Hyman) that bring the book to life. Then … Continue reading
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Out-of-Door Life
Charlotte Mason writes with a snippet of information here and another related one there, but not necesarilly together. As I read through her chapter about The Out-of-Door Life For Children, I just had to take notes and rearrange her ideas. … Continue reading
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Voice of the Deep
Two DVDs in two evenings! Tonight we watched “Voice of The Deep”. Lots of fascinating bits and bobs about underwater noises. No, truly, it was interesting;-) And like in City of the Bees, the scientific method was both assumed and explained. … Continue reading
City of The Bees
Well, it’s not exactly Augustine’s City of God;-) It’s the first we’ve watched in a series of DVDs put out by the Moody Institute of Science. They are over fifty years old, and I guess you can say they’ve almost … Continue reading
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off the BOOKshelf 