We enjoyed beet chips, beet fries, and beet cupcakes!
They gave us energy for a rainy jaunt.
First day of autumn!!
We hung out after drama class to take in the beautiful weather.
When you run into friends at the farm
“Dd” day
We found as many doors as possible.
Even fairy doors
And chicken doors
Cape May
After our Wetlands class we went searching for the famous Cape May diamond bayside and saw the sunken concrete boat.
A few from Alice’s stash...
After some ice cream we hung out oceanside.
When your little sister doesn’t feel like walking anymore at the grocery store...
A lovely beach day with friends in Sea Isle City
Guess what’s in the boxes?
Farewell, girls! We will visit you often!!
We left the chickens, not the kids.
Cutie with her butterflies
Moth life cycle
We wordlessly acted out the life cycle with our bodies and then put the complete metamorphosis to music, figuring out what each stage might sound like.
Eggs
Caterpillars (larvae)
Cocoon (pupa)
Emerging
Adults!
Shakers and bells. I rocked a tambourine.
Trying our hands (or noses) at being moths
Feathery antennae and all. Moths find mates in the dark by following a scent. Each species has a unique scent. Here we try pairing scents with our eyes closed.
Sweet orange was the clear favorite.
Website got turned on its head...we’re back now, maybe.
Papa found a pal
Some days we just feel like this
By Alice
A Burt Reynolds tribute perhaps?
Alice to the rescue
Some fun with Fibonacci
First, Fibonacci’s rabbit problem...
Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits. Suppose that our rabbits never die and that the female always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that Fibonacci posed was...
How many pairs will there be in one year?
The sequence of rabbit pairs from one month to the next (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...) can be found all over in nature, so we explored the yard.
Pine fascicle with 3 needles
5 petals
8 petals
13 spirals
Then we tried our hand at spirals after looking at how Fibinacci’s numbers make a spiral.
We hung a paint bottle from the fan and spun away.
Our collective poem
“I wanted to see if I could dye my shirt with marigolds.”
Steamy walk to Pine Lake
Chilling in the shade of the willow while the girls set up houses at the playground
Naked cooldown on the air conditioning vent
summer ain't over yet!
The great black swallowtail experiment
We discovered chrysalises formed on green stems were green and those on brown twigs were brown. So Alice wanted to try something more colorful...
But our experiment’s conclusion was that the caterpillar was restless and unhappy in this environment and was returned to a nice brown twig.