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like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants."

Deuteronomy 32:2

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Newsletter Articles

In 2013 the Lord started me producing a newsletter for the homeschool group we are a part of. Every other month I write an article on a topic the Lord has put on my heart. I've decided to add these articles to this blog. I hope you will find encouragement through some of my ramblings. You can click on the label "Newsletter" to find the articles.

Saturday, August 27

Kindergarten, Book Study, Week 30

Our Book Study was Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne (1926). I have a book titled The World of Pooh which contains the complete Winnie-the-Pooh and The House At Pooh Corner. We started reading it during Week 25, and just have a three more chapters until we complete the book. Here are activities from Games with Books which go along with Pooh.
  • The Hum Game -- to practice the ability to rhyme with ease and play with words
    • Pooh has a very relaxed approach to rhyming, and so does K., she loves to rhyme, so this was a very fun game for us.
    • How to Play: Pick a topic and make a two line rhyme. Then your child picks a topic and makes us a two line rhyme. Keep going back and forth for as long as you want to. This is a great way to make waiting somewhere more enjoyable.
    • Variations:
      • Instead of picking your own topics, pick for each other.
      • I like to add a "Rum-tiddly-pum" after each rhyme.
    • If someone has trouble thinking of a rhyme for a topic, the other person can give suggestions.
  • Make A Bear -- great for small muscle development
    • You'll Need: fabric (an old white t-shirt works great), cotton balls, permanent marker, scissors, thread, needle, straight pins, pattern of bear on page 181 of book
    • Cut two pieces of fabric large enough for the pattern
    • Pin the pattern to both pieces of cloth.
    • Let your child cut the bear out. You can help, if needed, but let your child so as much of the cutting as possible.
    • Remove the pins and the paper bear pattern.
    • Make sure the front and back of the bear are aligned and pin them back together.
    • Thread the needle and (on extra fabric) show your child how to do a running stitch. Don't make the thread too long, or it will tangle.
    • When he has the idea, let him start sewing the bear. Sew about a quarter inch from the edge.
    • When the thread is almost gone, knot it and re-thread the needle.
    • Make sure to leave an opening of an inch or two to turn and stuff the bear.
    • Turn the bear inside out.
    • Stuff the bear with cotton balls (or if you prefer a bean bag, with beans). fill the arms, legs, and head first, then the body.
    • Have your child stitch up the opening and check for gaps in the sewing that need to be fixed.
    • Let your child use the permanent marker (or fabric paint) to draw a face and decorate the bear in any way she chooses.
  • Wobbly Letters -- practice finding misspelled words
    • Pooh's spelling wobbles and the letters get in the wrong places.
    • How to Play: Write a simple sentence and misspell a word. Have your child identify the misspelled word. If they spell it correctly on the first try, they get 2 points. If they correct it on the second try, they get 1 point. Let your child can play with the spelling on a paper until they think it is correct. Play this eight times. If your child earns at least 10 points, they win, if they earn less than 10 points, you win.
  • Pooh Picnic Party
    • If your child invites friends, it should be just 1 or 2 people.
    • Everyone brings their favorite stuffed animal.
    • The menu consists solely of foods that start with the p sound, except for honey.
    • Include your child in all the preparations, from writing invitations to helping choose the menu and preparing the food to decorating and cleaning up afterwards.
K. earned her $2 for saying Psalm 129 on Wednesday! We also played math games and read books about birds this week.

Saturday, August 20

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 29

This week we:
  • Reviewed Psalm 139; I have 2 $1.00 stuck up on the bulletin board that K. will earn when she can say the whole Psalm without any helps. She still needed 2 words on Thursday.
  • Review Catechism
  • Read stories 159 - 161 in Picture Story Bible
  • Other books, stories, videos:
    • Mrs. R-P and the Treasure Hunt
    • Because I Love You
    • Chief Sechele's Daughter from Missionary . . . Millers
  • Prayer
  • Song: God of Wonders

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 29

This week's practice sentence was: Piggy quickly danced a jig.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Color Collage, see Writing, Week 17 for instructions
Story Development:
  • Egg-Carton Tales -- from Games for Writing -- this game helps teach your child the fundamentals of story writing
    • You'll Need: 2 egg cartons that hold a dozen eggs (or you can use 1 egg carton that holds 18 eggs), dime
      • To prepare the egg cartons, cut them in half so you have 2 rows of three cups and the lid (you'll only need 3 of them)
      • Write a setting on six small strips of paper and glue each one in a cup of one of the egg cartons. Examples: forest, park, church, castle . . .
      • Do the same with characters (examples: ferocious lion, little girl, a frog . . .) and problems (examples: lost, mess, sick . . .)
    • How to Play:
      • Put the dime in the setting carton, shake it. Open the carton and where the dime landed is the setting for the story.
      • Do the same with the character carton and the problem carton.
      • Your child must tell a story that includes the setting, character, and problem.
      • Now it is your turn!
Writing Practice:
  • Game: Race of Words, see Writing, Week 16 for instructions
  • Game: Silence is Golden from Games for Writing -- low key writing practice
    • The book has rules and a way to win, but I just set our kitchen timer for 7 minutes and told K. that for 7 minutes we weren't going to talk, but just write to each other.
    • Spelling doesn't matter, penmanship doesn't matter.

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 29

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension
  • Genres
    • poem
    • folktale
Friday our activity was Same and Different from Games for Reading -- this game gives your child practice in looking at similar-looking groups of letters and in quickly identifying the difference between them.
  • Take strips of paper and draw a line down the middle.
  • On one side write a word or a group of letters or numbers
  • On the other side write either the same thing or something similar. Here are some examples of similar "words":
    • stew | stow
    • pgrt | gprt
    • 00030 | 00300
    • where | there
  • Turn one strip of paper over and show it to your child for 1 or 2 seconds.
  • Turn in back over and ask your child if the "words" were the same or different.
  • Turn the paper back over so he can check his answer.

Kindergarten, Math, Week 29

Monday
  • Addition Facts (K. calls them "Races"), See Math, Weeks 25, 26, and 27 for instructions
  • Game: Number Ladder, See Math, Week
Tuesday
  • Game: Races (Addition Facts)
  • Using manipulatives, we worked out and I wrote all the equations that equal 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and looked at the patterns
Wednesday
  • Game: Fast Track, See Math, Week 27 for instructions
Thursday
  • Game: Races (Addition Facts)
  • I wanted to see if K. could put equations with a sum
    • I took a piece of paper and folded it in fourths
    • I told K. to go get 4 different colors of crayons
    • K. told me a number (we used 7, 10, 8, and 6) and I wrote it at the top of one of the squares
    • I used one crayon to write an equation that equalled that number
    • K. used the other three crayons to write three more equations that equalled the number

Friday
  • Game: Races (Addition Facts)

Kindergarten, History, Week 29

  • Read chapter 35 in Child's History (An Emperor Who Was Made a god)
    • After Caesar was killed Antony and Octavius ruled the empire
    • Octavius made war on Antony and won
    • Octavius was ruler of all the countries that belonged to Rome
    • He was called the Emperor
    • He called himself Augustus Caesar
    • He had many beautiful building built in Rome
  • Read chapter 36 in Child's History (Thine Is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory)
    • Read this chapter to yourself before you read it to your child. I changed some things in it. For instance, it tells that Jesus was crucified, but doesn't mention Him rising again. It also has Saul persecuting Christians because he thought they were enemies of Rome.
  • Looked at pages 58, 59, 62, 63, 78, 79 in Ancient World
  • Time line
  • Read the book of Esther

Kindergarten, Science, Week 29

This week we read:
  • Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest by Irene Kelly
    • Paintings are realistic, and though not first rate they demonstrate the birds and nests very well; each page shows at least one bird and it's nest with three to five sentences about the bird and nest.
    • This book is rather long. I tried to read the whole book in 1 day, but K. got bored about 3/4ths of the way through, so I would recommend just looking at a few pages each day.
  • About Raptors by Cathryn Sill
  • It's a Bird by Elisa Peters
    • Pictures; one sentence per page tells a fact about birds.
  • Do You Know About Birds by Buffy Silverman
    • Pictures; two to six sentences per page; teaches about feathers, beaks, and eggs
  • Birds and Trees by Emily C. Dawson
    • Pictures; two to three sentences per page tell why birds need trees and trees need birds
  • Eagles by Julie K. Lundgren
    • Pictures; three to eight sentences per page tell about eagles
  • Swans by Valerie Bodden
    • Pictures; three to five sentences per page teach about swans
  • Thunder Birds by Jim Arnosky
    • Fantastic Paintings, some pages fold out to show life size birds. We didn't read the text in this book -- just looked at the birds (and their wing spans) and talked about what a great God we have and the wonderful birds He made.
  • Birds by Nicola Davies
    • Pictures; lots of information about birds with a couple projects at the end of the book
  • The Peregrine's Journey by Madeleine Dunphy
    • Realistic Paintings; tells the story of a falcon migrating from the arctic to Argentina
Fiction books about birds:
  • Tara's Flight by Ruth Eitzen
    • An imaginative story about the dove that Noah let out of the ark
  • Those Calculating Crows! by Ali Wakefield
    • A counting story about crows and a corn field
  • Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest by Cynthia Rylant
    • Nice story about a robin building her nest, laying and hatching eggs
  • The Birdwatchers by Simon James
    • A story about a girl and her grandpa going birdwatching
Also:
  • We watched this video of a robin family hatching and growing up 
  • We marked the wing spans of some birds on our driveway

Saturday, August 13

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 28

This week we:
  • Memorized Psalm 139: 24 (final verse!)
  • Introduced Catechism #24 on Wednesday: How do you know that you have a soul? God tells me so in Genesis 2:7, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
  • Read stories 157 and 158 in Picture Story Bible
  • Other books/stories/videos:
    • The Princess and the Kiss
    • Who Holds the Brush from Short and Sweet
    • The Search for Satisfaction from Short and Sweet
    • Timmy is Responsible from Stories . . . Millers
    • The Yellow River from Missionary . . . Millers
  • Prayer
  • Song: God of Wonders

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 28

I have finished introducing all the letters of the alphabet. To practice letters she has difficulty with I made up a sentence that repeated the troublesome letters: A fast goose can race. She has been writing this sentence once each day this week.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Drawing pictures in sand
Story Development:
  • Story Map, see Writing, Week 8 for instructions
Writing Practice:
  • Game: Traveling Words from Games for Writing  -- turns the monotony of handwriting practice into something a child might actually want to do.
    • You'll Need: paper, pencil/marker
    • How to Play:
      • Pick a sentence. A weird or funny sentence will make it more fun.
      • Draw a winding road on the piece of paper.
      • Your child writes the sentence as neatly as possible on the road.
  • Game: That's Good, That's Bad see Writing, Week 22 for instructions

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 28

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension
  • Genres
    • historical fiction
    • fiction
Friday our activity was Goofy Sentences from Games for Reading -- this game gives your child practice reading words and phrases, and give him an early taste for sentence structure and grammar.
  • Sample sentences are provided in the book.
  • Write 20 beginnings of sentences on strips of paper or card stock. (example: The little chair) Mix them up.
  • Write 20 middle parts of sentences on strips of paper or card stock. (example: was there) Mix them up.
  • Write 20 ending parts of sentences on strips of paper or card stock. (example: so I could sit.) Mix them up.
  • Set out all three sets of cards. Let your child pick a card from each set and read the sentence.
  • You will end up with silly sentences. One we really laughed at was "My cup barked while I ran away."

Kindergarten, Math, Week 28

Monday
  • Game: Fast Track, See Math, Week 27 for instructions
Tuesday
  • Addition Facts, See Math, Weeks 25, 26, and 27 for instructions
  • Game: Number Stories, See Math, Week 26 for instructions
Wednesday
  • Game: Fast Track, See Math, Week 27 for instructions
Thursday
  • Addition Facts, See Math, Weeks 25, 26, and 27 for instructions
  • Game: Uno Math, See Math, Week 27 for instructions
Friday
  • Addition Facts, See Math, Weeks 25, 26, and 27 for instructions

Kindergarten, History, Week 28

  • Read chapter 32 in Child's History (The Boot Kicks and Stamps)
    • Carthage wanted to fight Rome again
    • This time, instead of fighting on the sea, the Carthage army went on land through Spain and over the alps into Italy.
    • Hannibal (the Carthage general) brought elephants with him
    • Hannibal was winning battle after battle
    • Rome decided to attack Carthage while Hannibal was away
    • Rome beat Carthage
  • Read chapter 33 in Child's History (The New Champion of the World)
    • Rome was the ruler of almost all the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea
    • They needed roads to be able to get to all the parts of their empire
    • They wanted the people in the cities to have clean water
    • They built big pipes from clean lakes to the cities: aqueducts
    • They built underground sewers
    • They made fair and just laws
    • The cities and towns in the empire had to pay taxes to Rome
  • Read chapter 34 in Child's History (The Noblest Roman of Them All)
    • There were pirates wanting to rob the ships carrying the taxes to Rome
    • Julius Caesar was sent to fight these pirates
    • Caesar was captured by the pirates; he told the pirates that when he got back to Rome he would get a fleet and come back and punish them
    • Caesar was ransomed by Rome, came back and took the pirates prisoner and crucified them
    • Caesar was sent to Spain and Gaul to put down uprisings
    • Caesar went to Britain and conquered part of it
    • Pompey was a general who was fighting in the eastern part of the Roman empire
    • Pompey became jealous of Caesar; he persuaded Rome to order Caesar to give up his army and come back to Rome
    • Caesar decided to return to Rome, but not give up his army
    • Caesar made himself the head of all Italy
    • Caesar conquered Egypt
    • Some people thought Caesar was getting too much power and so they killed him
  • We worked on our time line

Kindergarten, Science, Week 28

This week we started learning about birds.

Here are the books we read:
  • Wild Life Fact File, Section 2: Birds
    • When my oldest sister was cleaning out her house she gave me the Fact Files. Sometimes you can pick them up in second hand stores.
    • Great pictures; we just looked at as many cards as K. was interested in. I would bring out the different kinds of nests, and the different places they built their nest. K. enjoyed seeing where they lived.
  • Hatch! by Roxie Munro
    • Realistic paintings; this book shows some eggs and gives clues about what bird they belong to, then on the next page there is a drawing of the bird in its habitat and there is more information about the bird. This text was mostly more than a 5 year old wanted to hear, so I didn't read it all but just picked a couple things on each page to read. What K. did like about this book is that on the habitat pages there is a list of three to five other animals that are pictured in the habitat, and she could search for them. So this book could be used for older and younger children.
  • Whose Nest Is This? by Heidi Bee Roemer
    • Realistic paintings; on the left page there is a drawing of a nest and four lines of rhymed text about the nest and it's owner. On the right page there is a drawing of the bird (or fish or turtle or mouse or alligator) with the nest.
  • Bird Nests by Heather Adamson
    • Great pictures; just has six or seven birds with pictures of them with their nests and young. Simple text about the nest and the bird.
  • About Raptors: A Guide for Children by Cathryn Sill
    • Realistic paintings; one simple line of text on the left page, painting of a raptor in its habitat on the right page. In the back of the book it gives more information about each bird shown.
Here are fiction books about birds that we read:
  • How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham
    • Mostly a picture story (very few words) about a little boy who finds a pigeon with a broken wing. His parents help him bandage the bird. Its wing heals and they release it where they found it. K. likes this book.
  • Skylar by Mary Cuffe-Perez
    • Story about some pond geese. We are only a couple chapters into the book.

Saturday, August 6

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 27

This week we:
  • Memorized Psalm 139:23
  • Read stories 154 - 156 in Picture Story Bible
  • Other books, stories, videos:
    • Sylvester
    • Blister
    • Muffy
    • The Princess and the Kiss
    • The Stolen Testament from Missionary . . . Millers
  • Prayer
  • Song: God of Wonders

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 27

Monday I introduces our final two lower case letters, s and z. K. practiced a line of each letter each day.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Googly Eyes, see Writing, Week 11 for instructions
Story Development:
  • Game: How Many Words? from Games for Writing -- this game provides children with experience using descriptive language
  • You'll Need: spinner, list of words (a chart is provided in the book)
    • The Spinner should be marked with numbers 1 through 4
  • How to Play:
    • First player flicks the spinner. (Let's say they get a 3)
    • Player reads the first 3 words in the list. (yellow, swiftly, canary)
    • Player tries to make up ONE sentence using all three words. (The yellow canary flew swiftly.)
    • If the player is able to use all 3 words, they get 3 points, if their ONE sentence only has two of the words, they get 2 points, if their ONE sentence only has one of the words, they get one point.
    • Then the next player flicks the spinner, and picks up in the list where the first player left off.
    • Play as many rounds as you like.
    • Sentences must be grammatically correct.
    • You can just say the sentences out loud, or write them down.
    • You could also use these sentences to begin a story.
Writing Practice:
  • Game: Rhyme Time, See Writing, Week 19 for instructions

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 27

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension
  • Genres:
    • nonfiction
    • folk drama
    • fiction
    • poetry
Friday our activity was Rhyming Chain from Games for Reading
  • One person says a word and the other person says a word that rhymes.
  • You keep taking turns saying words that rhyme with the first word until no one can think of another rhyming word.
  • Then a player picks a new word to rhyme.

Kindergarten, Math, Week 27

Monday
  • We reviewed our addition facts. I discovered that I needed to make it more of a game for K. I tried a few different things, and finally found this solution.
    • I lay out a set of the facts
    • As she matches the answers to the problems
    • I write out the equations and answers
    • Whoever finishes first, with all answers correct, WINS!
    • Match your speed of writing to your child's speed of matching, in other words, write slowly enough that your child can win MOST of the time.
    • For prizes, I bought a bag of trail mix (nuts and dried fruit). I put a very small amount (about 20 pieces) in a bowl. Whoever one the set got to pick and eat 1 piece. The person who won the most times got to eat the extra pieces. I have put the trail mix away, so it isn't for common consumption, and (1) will be a special treat when we do math facts and (2) will last a LONG time.
  • We also practiced adding money.
    • I pulled out my bag of coins
    • K. took out a hand full
    • I had her separate them into their kinds
    • Then she counted the total value
    • We did it 3 times. The values were $1.13, $1.12, and 14¢
Tuesday
  • Game: Fast Track from Games for Math -- the purpose of this game is memorization of math facts.
  • You'll Need: game board, math fact cards, a marker for each player, counters to help solve problems (when needed)
    • Game Board
      • I opened up a notebook folder for the game board.
      • Draw a track around the folder.
      • Divide the track into at least 37 compartments (squares)
      • Label 3 squares "START" and 3 "WIN"
      • Label every square with directions such as: double move, lose a turn, go ahead 2 spaces, go back 3 spaces, move to Start, draw again, stay put, go ahead 3 spaces,
      • I let K. decorate the middle of the game board.
    • Math Fact Cards
      • Cut up index cards or manila folders
      • Write one math fact you are working on memorizing on each card
      • On most of the cards leave the answer blank, such as: 2 + 3 = [ ]
      • On some of the cards leave the second number blank, such as: 2 + [ ] = 5
  • How to Play:
    • Each player puts their marker on one of the starts (every one can pick a different start)
    • First player picks up a Math Fact Card and supplies the missing number
    • Player moves that number of spaces and does what the square they stop on says to do
    • Next player picks us a Math Fact Card . . .
    • You win by landing on a "WIN" square.
    • K. likes this game so much that we keep playing even after someone wins. The last time we played, she won twice and I won once before we stopped
    • She is having difficulty figuring out the missing number second number. If the equation was 2 + [ ] = 4, then we put out 2 shells, and I had her add shells until there were 4. How many did you have to add? (2) So 2 + 2 = 4
    • You can see this example at the top left in the picture below.

Wednesday
  • We practiced our Math Facts
  • Game: What Did I Do? -- See Math, Week 26 for instructions
Thursday
  • Game: Fast Track -- See above for instructions
Friday
  • We practiced our Math Facts
  • Game: Uno Math -- I'm sure this game isn't original with me, but I don't know where it came from
  • You'll Need: deck of  Uno cards
  • How to Play:
    • Remove all the non-number cards from the deck and put them in a pile
    • Divide all the number cards evenly among the players
    • Pick a number (until you teach subtraction, the number should be 9 or higher) we used the number 10, so for this example I'll use 10
    • Players take turns putting down 2 (or more) cards that equal 10
    • For example: a 9 card and a 1 card, or a 7 card and a 3 card. On one of K.'s plays she put down one 5, three 1's and one 2.
    • When the cards a player is holding can not be used to make the number, they take one of the set aside non-number cards and tell what number it would need to be. For instance, if a player has a 6 card, but no 4 card, they pick up a non-number card and say it is a 4.
    • The first person with all their cards gone wins.

Kindergarten, History, Week 27

  • Read chapter 29 in Child's History (Wise Men and Otherwise)
    • Philip was king of Macedonia (find it on a map) and wanted to be king of Greece also
    • Philip didn't want to fight, thought up a scheme (a tricky plan)
    • Offered to lead Greece in conquering Persia
    • Philip was killed
    • His son, Alexander, became king -- he was only 20 years old
  • Read chapter 30 in Child's History (A Boy King)
    • Alexander was king of Macedonia and Greece
    • Crossed the Hellespont to fight Persia
    • Conquered Persia and never lost any important battles
    • One Alexandria he founded was in Egypt.
    • There he built a great library; books were scrolls (the last great library we talked about, books were clay tablets)
    • Built a lighthouse on an island, Pharos
    • Alexander traveled into India, conquering peoples
    • Taught the Greek language to peoples he conquered (the New Testament was written in Greek)
  • Look at pages 56 - 57 in Ancient World
  • Read The Great Alexander The Great by Lasker
  • Read chapter 31 in Child's History (Picking a Fight)
    • Champion countries were: Nineveh (Assyria), Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Macedonia
    • Rome became strong, conquered Italy, and began to look around for more countries to conquer
    • Rome was jealous of Carthage's wealth
    • Carthage didn't like seeing Rome so powerful
    • Rome had no ships; Carthage had many, many ships
    • Romans found a wrecked Carthaginian ship and copied it to build a fleet of ships
    • Romans weren't experienced sailors and knew they wouldn't win battles by ramming holes in ships
    • Romans had the idea of hooking their ship to an enemy ship and boarding it to fight. It worked.
    • This is called the Punic War, Rome eventually won
  • Work on time line if you have time

Kindergarten, Science, Week 27

This week we turned our attention to ponds.

Here are the books we read:
  • Life in a Pond by Fowler
    • Pictures with just a few sentences on each page
  • Pond Life by Stewart and Bergin
    • Great realistic drawings; introduces frogs, three-spined sticklebacks, newts, ducks; discusses seasons, mating, and life cycles
  • Would You Rather Be a Polliwog? by Worth (a Cat in the Hat book)
    • Comical drawings; touches on insects, frogs, ducks, turtles, fish, metamorphosis
  • The True Book of Animals of Small Pond by Erickson
    • Realistic drawings on each page; true story; follows the beaver, raccoon, mink, otter, and muskrat from winter through autumn
  • From Tadpole to Frog by Pfeffer
    • Good drawings; life cycle of a bullfrog, which takes 2 years to change from tadpole to frog
  • Box Turtle at Long Pond by George
    • Realistic drawings; a day in the life of a box turtle
  • Pond by Morrison
    • Realistic drawings; a pond, from spring to winter; just a few sentences on each page, but it gives additional information about pond plants and animals at the bottom of the page that older children would be interested in
  • Pond Life by Greenaway
    • Pictures with lots of information; we just looked at the pictures in this book
Other suggested books:
  • The Beaver Pond by Tresselt
    • Good drawings; follows the life cycle of a beaver pond
  • One Small Square Pond by Silver
    • If you have a natural pond that you can visit, it gives lots of information and activities to do throughout a year
  • The Living Pond by Hester
    • Great photographs and information
  • Life in Ponds and Streams by Amos
    • Great photographs with a medium about of text