Blog Entries tagged 'Nature Study'

A few random things

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0100

It's hard to get a good picture of Imogen, because as soon as she sees the camera she pulls a funny smiling kind of face and runs right towards you. Here are a couple of shots.

Being a little Mummy wiping her drink cup with the tea towel.

There's the face.
These are new boo [...]

Wordless Wednesday

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0100

Our last Week or so

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0100

We had Russell home for a little bit and I got this happy snap. The kids all had to be up at the same time ofcourse!

I found this Marbled Gecko on my laundry window sill. This was very interesting because it is the first one we have found that has lost it's tail. They have false tails to fool their predators so when something grabs them they can d [...]

They LOVE the Zoo

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0100

and the animals LOVE them!

These two bob tails followed Xavier and Imogen all around their enclosure trying to get through the glass to the kids.

We are really really enjoying A to Zoo run by Perth Zoo. This term we have been studying African Animals. [...]

A fresh start

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0100

We have not really done any formal habit training so far so I decided this week we would make a fresh start and get own to business with habit training. A friend forwarded me her morning and evening routines which I fitted to my family and printed out and popped on the pantry door, very central place in our house. Whilst doing that I decided I would make a makeshift whiteboard so that I could write down what I wanted to achieve for us school wise for that day, week and month, it w [...]

Our Week 13/2

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0100

Yet again, another busy week. Our friends return to their country home this weekend so things will go back to normal next week. We have however had an awesome time with them over the last 3 weeks and will be sad to see them go!

This week we completed the post test for Explode the Code Book 1. Ethany has progressed so well in this book and I have been blown away by her dictation ability in the post test.

Libelluidae Blue Skimmer Dragonfly

First off let me say we [...]

Wordless Wednesday

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0100

Week at a Glance

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0100

This week has seen us out and about a little more than usual which has been nice. We have still had plenty of time to observe the nature at the backdoor though.

We have loads of these tiny insects at our place. I have no idea what they are and so far have been unable to identify them in any of our field guides. We are dubbing them UB (unidentified bug), lol. Do you know what they are? If you do please drop us a line!

Marbled Gecko

He was on the wall of our verandah when I was heading out the door I spotted him. He was almost translucent and was a little tricky to identify. A [...]

South-western Spiny-tailed Gecko

bates.family@optusnet.com.au — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0100

Since we moved into this house we have been undertaking a massive project! The removal of a very large tree from our backyard, so that we actually have a yard, lol. The tree was taking up the entire yard, i kid you not.

Whilst cutting down the monster we came across this little guy.