While we were reading By The Shores of Silver Lake last week, I found a passage describing things the girls found on the prairie.

Since we’re in a bit of a deficit with our nature journal entries, I thought why not add some of these things.

Even though we’re not there to examine them and touch them, we can still learn about them and include them in our journal.

This taught us about a couple prairie plants as well as brought the scene from the book to life a little better.

While the girls were exploring the prairie, they picked red tiger lilies and purple buffalo beans for Ma.

I looked up images of red tiger lilies and we drew it in our journal. James remembered lilies in his friend’s backyard and we agreed they were similar.

We added the Latin name as well– lilum philadelphicum.

Purple Buffalo Beans were a little more difficult to draw but we did our best. The Latin name I think I found for them is astrgalus crassicarpus.

I don’t usually include copywork in the journal, but this sentence from the book fit so well that we added it.

“Oh what a wild, beautiful prairie! Mary sighed with happiness.”

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