It's easy for me to remember things if I use alliteration. Thus, this year we've played tennis on many Tuesdays and taken walks on many Wednesdays. We try to observe as many interesting science, art, or history types of things as we can on our walks, and we usually do find a few. We found two dead fledging birds on the tennis court yesterday, and watched the last baby robin fly away from its nest on the front porch this morning.
Today we took a new route to walk around the perimeter of a tire company that has truckfulls of old tires sitting around. We found all kinds of interesting sights like trees growing all around the trucks as they've been sitting there for so long, cats sleeping amongst the tires in the trucks, license plates from different states on the trucks, and an old bird's nest in a windowsill. The nest had obviously been abandoned for quite some time, so we gently removed it and inspected the inside of it. Alas, all of the birds had not made it to maturity as we found some bird bones inside the nest -- a backbone and a few wing and leg bones to be exact. We're studying vertebrates in science, so this went along well with today's science lesson.
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