This report – is mostly entirely from the Pebblekeeper’s voice – the boys sort of ya ya me with the observations. :) I say things like – “Hey look – the sun is setting over the Brown House instead of the Grey one now.” “Ya, I saw that” is about the most interest I get. :) “Hey look the tide has pulled way out to the sea with so much more beach now.” I get rolled eyes after stating the obvious while the boys think I like the sound of my own voice.
But it is exciting to me! I read, in the Handbook of Nature Study book I think – or the blogspot site – that one would know the month if not the day if adequate observance of sunset and sunrise was taken into memory. We have an excellent vantage point for watching the evening rotation of the earth to the sun’s location here with our landscape view.
I can not see the sun rise, just the effect of the turning up of the lights. Even now, at 8:30 am, my porch is almost ready to feel sunlight, as sun has crept over the eastern hill, swept the lake, up the yard, and now to the dock. Still – we are in shadows. I marvel at the change in sunset locations on the beach, the “best” shots moving North each day.
For weather – I’d love to do a Summer Report – If Summer Ever Showed Up. I think it will today. 🙂 Its supposed to be warm and beautiful. However, after loving a dry-ish winter with few storms, we were ushered in May and June with reports like this from OSU <<Read Weather Report Here>>:
“Portland set an all-time record for rainfall in the month, with 4.27 inches, topping the previous record of 4.06 inches set in 1984, according to Tyree Wilde, a meteorologist with NOAA’s National Weather Service in Portland.
The May-June combined rainfall record also fell this year, as Portland logged 8.95 inches, breaking the old mark of 7.47 inches, also set in 1984.
“All records for the Portland Airport go back to 1940,” Wilde said, “so these are historic records with 70 years of data.” Oregon State University Website Quote
We have been tracking the sun and moon locations, noticing the day round warmth more, the mist rises from the lake daily as the water continues to be warmer than the air in the morning, warmth the last few day grass started to dry out the grass to need a bit of watering.
Here is a chart I made for y’all this morning. I will have the boys fill out their notebook page on weather, but I’m sure it will be a quick completion. 🙂 The greatest thing – is that through the conversation – the vocabulary of weather – is that at this age – they really do get it. They see. They observe. We know the tides, the sunset times. We know the twilight forecast. We are aware of the breaks in the clouds, and which cloud coverings mean rain jackets. I am glad that we have spent intense time learning to be our own weather meteorologists. 🙂
+Angie Wright
