We have been seeing these a lot on our nature walks, and in yards. I've done a few searches, but i can't find anything!


Update:
Thanks to my dear friend Niki, Lei and i now know that this is a Shepard's Needle Flower. Definitely an addition to our nature journal.

We haven't been doing much at all with homeschooling this week. Since this was supposed to be our Ee week, we did a bit of handwriting (writing the letter Ee on our white board/unlined paper). We also talked about how the letter E makes the 'eh' sound. 

Other than that we did A LOT of nature study. We talked about the northern mockingbird and the White Crowned Pigeon. Both of which are local birds, and we see almost on a daily basis! However, any picture we tried to get of them did not turn out well. So, i had to get these ones online!

 White Crowned Pigeon

Northern Mockingbird

We will continue with these birds next week, when we get a calmer start to the week!

Here is the first lesson i will be working on with Lei. It's the /k/ sound, which he has been pronouncing /d/.

We will go over one row for about 15-30 minutes a day until he can say it. I'm not worried about how quick he will catch onto it, and i'm trying to make it fun for him.

These past days have been so busy. Between Drs, Dentists, and house break-ins, it feels like i haven't even been home!

On Sunday i spent 6 hours waiting in the ER. And didn't even get to see the dr! The kids were getting tired and bored, so we left. The following day, Monday, we took him to our family dr. My sweet boy has Otitis externa, an outer ear infection. Not only that, but the dr also noticed his speech issues. Lei has a lot of difficulty pronouncing certain letter sounds. For example: Four is Bore, car is dar, he completely removes the s from the beginning of words,etc. Dr says to keep working on it with him, and to keep an eye (ear?) on it. The worst it could be is Auditory Processing Disorder, which i'm pretty confident it isn't. He has a follow up Wednesday, for the ear infection.

Starfall, how i love you! 

Even though my boys fight for mouse time every time you are on.