This week’s Handbook of Nature Study Blog Assignment was Oak Trees. We went on a short walk, it’s been so cold this week, and were lucky to find two different oaks to study. I believe one is an English Oak and the other a Northern Red Oak (feel free to offer other suggests if you think otherwise).
The kids love oak trees. They will spend hours collecting the acorns, which are affectionately known as gnome hats around here.
We did not do a formal journal entry this week. Instead, we played with making leaf rubbings. After a few disappointing results I started taping the leaves to the table and the paper over the leaves for the kids. That helped a bunch and we ended up with some pretty pages.
Just for fun… here is our Oak Tree Study from last year.BTW – the acorns never did sprout. I had meant to look into that… maybe I will get a chance to this fall… and maybe we will try it again.
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Your oak leaves are so much larger than ours here in our area. What a pretty shape. I love the leaf rubbings…I think they are beautiful.
Thanks so much for sharing your link,
Barb
your leaf rubbings are great! we tried the stamp method but it didn’t work really well, we’ll try the rubbing instead. Thanks!