Wrapped up Luther Burbank

We finished the biography, but hopefully this is just the beginning of a love of growing things. Everyone was enthusiastic, asking questions such as-Can we have a garden again? What do farmers do? Can we have a blackberry bush? Can we pick our own plants?

I love when a book can inspire! Hopefully we will learn together and this will be a lifelong project.

Along with drawing/tracing the plants mentioned in the biography, we are researching their health benefits. So far, we have researched cranberries and cinnamon.

Nature Study

We are doing drawings of plants, flowers, fruits, etc. mentioned in our biography on Luther Burbank as well as our family reading, On the Banks of Plum Creek. I hope to do some hands-on at some point, but this is a good start. I love the drawings in this older book, A Picture Book of Nature.

Plants

We are starting a study of plants. Today we discussed some plants of the Bible, drew pictures of trees in each season, and from our first chapter in Luther Burbank, Plant Wizard, we discussed clover, pollination, nectar and bees. We had a great start!