(First published at Sandbox to Socrates http://sandboxtosocrates.wordpress.com)
I was *terribly* impressed by this first picture here! I really think her drawing skills are improving, though we have quite some way to go before achieving brilliance in the style of the Edwardian Lady's journal. (Which is not necessarily a goal, but is certainly something to sigh wistfully about.) While I did have to remind her to give it legs, anyone from our part of the world would recognise this as a crimson rosella. These rosellas are seasonal visitors to us and they are so gorgeous I can't help but love them, even when they are making a mess in my veggie garden!
This next picture was from our trip to Steavenson's Falls, which we chose, for our nature study tours, as our 'wet woodlands' location. I'm not 100% thrilled with the site because there are a few too many invading blackberries and I'd rather there weren't, but it is accessible and we don't need to worry about coming back one day and finding it closed indefinitely for regeneration. I'm really not sure about the colours, but that is definitely her standing beside the waterfall.
Another spot we visit on our nature study tours is St Clair. There is nothing particularly remarkable about the site. It appears to be the location of an old township but is pretty much a paddock up in the hills. One of the major terrain types in our state is the alpine area, and this is the closest we can get that is accessible all year around, since it is a through road. And, this is very important, it doesn't cost us $50 to access like the ski resorts do in winter! Daughter was disappointed there wasn't any snow *again* but we got to see some sedimentary rocks just like the ones David Attenborough was talking about on the documentary we'd watched recently. Almost as good as snow is seeing things she's watched on documentaries. A very simple picture, but you're seeing the sedimentariness of those rocks, aren't you?
This picture was drawn at home. We looked out the window and saw a couple of young kangaroos fighting, with the swamp wallaby on the opposite watching them too. It was such an amusing picture (to me, anyway) that I suggested she draw it into her journal. For some reason known only to herself, she drew a mother and a joey instead. *shrug*
You remember those ants we saw at the Hattah-Kulkyne national park? Well guess what? They were still there this time!
And this picture is from another site on our nature study tour, the estuary at Barwon Heads, where we go to look at mangroves. Mangroves are cool. I really like this picture book, Mangroves by Glenda Kane and Lisa Allen, which I think is out of print at the moment. Rhyming books that you can read more than once a month without wanting to dig your eyes out should never go out of print. Boo hiss.
Rose-Marie was one of those enthusiastic planners who began researching when she was pregnant with her first. She wanted to homeschool because it sounded like an affordable adventure, then she met her kids personally...
Her young daughter has Echolalia and some processing issues so isn't speaking fluently yet; but she is making good progress as they work and play in Central Victoria, Australia.
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