'16/17 Weeks 25 and 26

Spring is finally here! Days are much warmer, in fact, they are downright hot sometimes. We are outdoors as much as we can enjoying the weather. It seems, most of our activities, both school related and not school related, these past two weeks have had to do with nature. We have sown seeds, watched them grow, enjoyed the first fruits, observed animals, and also celebrated some awesome holidays. 

We sowed a whole bagful of wildflower seeds in front of our house. It is a hard ground, but we hope some flowers will still appear if we take good care of the area.

A tub full of lettuce. I simple winter gardening project we started weeks ago has started to produce, and we have been able to enjoy some delicious lettuce.

The leftover sprouts from Saara's TOPS project found their way to our garden and they are growing well. She has even harvested a few radishes already.

Signs of spring are everywhere.

We celebrated an awesome Valentine's Day.

Science. Part of Saara's corn and beans project is to record how much her sprouts have grown. She does it by weighing them with her homemade scales.

Andrew is reading a book about survival skills in the wild. He (with a little help from Saara) constructed a leaf hut following the instructions in the book. 

The hut is so well built, it withstood a major thunderstorm with terrifying wind speeds.

Signs of spring. The reptiles are out.

Estonia's independence day was celebrated with the 'kringel'  - a cinnamon braided bread which is a must at special gatherings in Estonia.

Saara and I went hunting for leaves of monocot and dicot plants. We made pencil rubbings of all of them and saved the the pictures in her plant journal.