The Macduff Path

Our butterflies hatched! Homeschooling is so funny. Sometimes I can plan out my day and try to accomplish all this school and it falls flat and the kids don't want to learn and I'm yelling and nothing is happening that is good. Other times it just flows. Today was such a great day- It was the Dentist Day. I love Dentist Day. Are you wondering why I capitalize Dentist Day?. Because I take all my kids. They are all signed up for teeth cleaning and I get to sit in the office and drink my latte and ready a trashy People magazine for 2 hours. It's awesome. I so look forward to Dentist Day- 2ce a year. (Ok-upon reading this I'm thinking that's pretty pathetic that I get so excited over Dentist Day) When we got done I decided that it was time to clean the house like someone was coming to buy it. That is the thing I miss from having my house on the market. It was really clean-every day. So I decided we would have Thursdays be our really big cleaning day.
However, when we got home we discovered that our butterflies started to hatch. This is where homeschooling just started flowing. I found my Handbook of Nature Study book and we started reading about butterflies. Then we did a writing exersize where we compared butterflies and moths. And then they wrote poems about the butterflies and typed them on the computer. I thought I would post them for you. Does this great day on homeschooling make up for the last 3 months of not schooling but showing our house? It is so rewarding to have really fun homeschooling days now and then-keeps me going for those not so fun days....

Tsega-
Butterfly butterfly
Fly before the hunter
Come and go
To your home
And while you are going home
Let a bird eat you

Addis
Butterfly, Butterfly
Fly away to come another day
And make more babies


Maggie
Butterfly, butterfly, glide thru the air,
And give your share,
Butterfly walk thru the air.
Spread your wings with a tiddle-de-do.


Hiwot
Butterfly flies
Butterfly sings
Butterfly walks
It has beautiful wings

Abby
A butterfly flies in the yellow sun.
A butterfly spreads its beautiful wings.
A butterfly flies in the day.
A butterfly sings all the way.

Caleb
LIFE CYCLE
I see a yellow butterfly upon a bright green leaf.
She sits and lays a clear white egg upon the leaf so green.
I come back yet another day and see some baby larvae,
Caterpillars, so small and green.
For a couple weeks I watch them, day by day by day.
Till one day I see them no more, just tiny small chrysalises.
Two more weeks I wait, and watch and watch and watch.
And finally, that wonderful day, out emerge the butterflies!

Labels: Charlotte Mason, random happenings