Happy New Year! I hope that this January Nature Note finds you & your loved ones well.
If you are new here, and to Exploring Nature with Children, I’m thrilled that you’re joining us! January is a smashing time to begin to study nature. If you subscribe to the blog posts on the website, You’ll receive the monthly Nature Note, which will give you an overview of the month ahead, and also the weekly Exploring Nature with Children theme posts, which I hope will be helpful to you in your studies.
For those of you who are using Exploring Nature With Children, the weeks for January fall as follows:
3rd ~ 9th Week 1 Winter Sky Week #ENWCwinterskyweek
10th ~ 16th Week 2: Moon Study Week #ENWCmoonweek
17th ~ 23rd Week 3: Winter Tree Study Week #ENWCwintertreeweek
24th ~ 30th Week 4: Winter Pond Study Week #ENWCwinterpondweek
If you’re over on Instagram, do pop over and say hello! The Instagram page is very much about community; think of it as your virtual home school co op! Our community uses the #exploringnaturewithchildren hashtag, & also specific weekly hashtags { see above } to enable you to connect with other families working through the ENWC curriculum.
There’s a free ENWC calendar for the year to download here.
As always, please work the weeks to suit your own circumstances best; these are just my own suggestions!
Seasonal notes:
January brings the snow,
makes our feet and fingers glow.
~ The Months by Sara Coleridge
Special days this January:
- 1st: New Year’s Day
- 2nd: New Moon
- 5th: Twelfth Night
- 6th: Epiphany
- 7th: Distaff Day
- 10th: Plough Monday
- 17th Full Moon
- 25th Burns Night
Happy exploring!
