Seashells

The girls wanted to check out our shell collection. Some of the shells are from Maine, and some from Virginia. The girls inspected them, tried figuring out what they were, and noticed the erosion from sand and sea.

Here they show some of their favorites.

Georgia likes scallop shells.

Olivia likes the tiny shells.

Here Georgia shows the largest in the collection.

And Olivia shows the smallest one she found.

And Georgia is showing the small crab leg remains.

We looked at this website http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=9 to try and learn more about the shells we have.

We just ordered a North American seashells identification guide to help us learn what the names of the shells are. We also ordered Ohio wildflowers fieldguide, and a rock and mineral identification guide.

Other than seashell inspecting...Georgia took out her sketch pad to draw some shells. She also sketched some horses and dinosaurs. We all read some dinosaur library books and Georgia found some neat activities for us to try once we gather all the necessary materials. Olivia and I have played a lot of games that help her with number identification, quantity, value, adding, and problem solving.

This afternoon we went on a hike at Routzong Preserve. I'll post pictures and tell you what we saw next time!

Tomorrow, Olivia has her class at the Nature Center.