Why make a blog?

Our first official day of the new school year was July 8, 2013. We started early so we can take free days throughout the year and still meet our requirement of 180 days of instruction by the end of April 2014.
This blog is a part of our curriculum for the year. We are following the Charlotte Mason Method and using a guide supplied for free at www.amblesideonline.org You can check it out if you are interested.
Charlotte Mason was an educator in the late nineteenth century.
"Her method, the Charlotte Mason method, is centered around the idea that education is three-pronged: Education is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life.
By “Atmosphere,” Charlotte meant the surroundings in which the child grows up. A child absorbs a lot from his home environment. Charlotte believed that atmosphere makes up one-third of a child’s education.
By “Discipline,” Charlotte meant the discipline of good habits — and specifically habits of character. Cultivating good habits in your child’s life make up another third of his education.
The other third of education, “Life,” applies to academics. Charlotte believed that we should give children living thoughts and ideas, not just dry facts. So all of her methods for teaching the various school subjects are built around that concept.
For example, Charlotte’s students used living books rather than dry textbooks. Living books are usually written in story form by one author who has a passion for the subject. A living book makes the subject “come alive.”She encouraged spending time outdoors, interacting with God’s creation firsthand and learning the living ways of nature." ~ taken directly from www.simplycharlottemason.com
We are going to be conducting outdoor nature studies 1-3 times per week throughout the school year. Our blog is to keep track of all we have seen and learned about. Trai is helping me write it by journaling and then doing some of the typing on the blog. So this blog is a collaboration of us both since he is still a little too young to type it all and think of all we are going to say.