Nature Study

Alexander's preschool has a program called, "Read to me; Talk to Me," where the kids get to choose a book from the Bookmobile and bring it home for a few days. Each book will have questions and projects that the parents and kids can do together. This week, Alexander brought home a book about trees. His project was to take a walk through his neighborhood and choose his favorite tree. So, we packed up some supplies and set out for a nature study.

Alexander decided before setting out that his favorite tree would be a "conifers" tree, and he quickly found one that appealed to him. It was basically the first one he saw from our house; we walked all of 2 minutes. Silly kid.

We talked about where the roots, trunk, bark, and branches were on the tree and whether it had needles or leaves. He and Jack each drew a picture of the tree, and then we snacked on some goldfish, having worked up our appetites from all that walking. I can only hope that his enthusiasm for homework holds strong!