Week Four and Five: A Shocking Moment

We had two appointments, two playdates, and a birthday party to plan in week four. I brought it down to basics and skipped science this week. Nothing interesting, reading, math, that's it. I'll post pics from the birthday party later :)

Week Five:

Spiders


The insect guide is pretty good. I'm seriously thinking of ordering this when the library wants their book back :)

Nesting set in this week. I've been cleaning nearly non stop for 6 days. While clearing out a closet at the end of the house the girls started screaming about a spider. Tamarin decided to capture it to study. I was knee deep in another closet so I didn't think much of it. It's common in this house for them to retrieve mason jars from the cabinet and come begging me if they can keep their new found pet.

I was expecting this:

(We found this guy dying in the schoolroom a few days later. He's a white spotted jumping spider.... or he was.)

Instead she came to me with this:

If you can't tell, this is a brown recluse. Yes, a fiddleback hiding among the shoes at the bottom of the closet. I can't believe Tamarin managed to capture it without getting hurt. My stomach sank when I saw this and realized how bad this could have turned for my oldest. I will definitely no longer shrug off screams about spiders.

The next day I returned to this closet to finish rearranging and I found this:

This closet will be further known as the closet of death. I picked up a door organizer for the shoes. The floor is now empty (save two pairs of boots and I'm seriously thinking of moving them somewhere else). I also spread lavender and peppermint oil in every closet of the house... okay so I may have actually spread it all over every room of the house.... enough that I am now out of peppermint....

Country life, so much excitement, but it couldn't have happened during a more appropriate week. Hands on schooling!