Wednesday afternoon, I picked up Linda’s boys (C1 and C2) and drove up to Rattlesnake Lake. I made little Nature Journals for each boy and gave them a plastic bag (for collecting things) and a pencil. On each page was an item they were to look for and draw. (This is a lesson in our Artistic Pursuits curriculum). Some of the items were:
- water
- fish (C1 drew a fisherman!)
- clouds
- interesting leaves
- an insect
- a neat rock
- a bird
- a stick or twig
- an animal
- a wildflower
- something soft
Here are the boys drawing the lake (imagine a dark circle…)
Throwing rocks is mandatory!
‘A’ came to me and said, "mom, I am a scale and I am weighing these two rocks. Which one do you think is heavier? He then lowered his arm with the tiny rock to show that was heavier. He’s pretty funny 
Playing on a big rock.
Another piece of God’s jungle gym…
The boys really tried to climb this rock. Maybe next year…
After playing around the lake, we hiked up the Rattlsnake Ledge trail for a while. My camera ran out of batteries and I was unable to get shots in the woods, but we enjoyed the hike.
What a beautiful lake. We have several lakes in our area, but there has been such a drought here for over a year that the lakes are way down and the shoreline is red mud (no, just red dirt–you would actually need water to make mud) 🙁
Hope you all enjoyed your time.
Corey