10/365

I’m killing two birds with one stone here: Project 365 and the A B See Photo Meme at The Homeschool Post. I posted last week’s Foto Friday there, using my “A.” Today I’ve got “B” for Botany. We started Jeannie Fulbright’s Exploring Creation with Botany today. We had been doing her Astronomy book, but we started teaching it in our homeschool co-op this week, so I thought we might as well move along to the next book. This is one of the beauties of homeschooling: we’re starting a new subject in mid-January!

After discussing classification system of taxonomy used by scientists, we played a game called “Shoe Taxonomy” (believe me, I’m not creative enough to come up with this stuff–it was in the book). We had about 15 shoe “singles” on the table, and the kids had to divide them into 4 kingdoms, then 2 phyla, 2 classes, and 2 orders. It was neat seeing the different ways they separated them: color, size, gender of owner, laces vs. zippers. etc.

[I may start consolidating the Project 365 pics into one or two days per week.]