I hope that this June 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! 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 June fall as follows:
30th ~ 5th Week 1 Museum Visit Week #ENWCmuseumvisitweek
6th ~ 12th Week 2: Honeybee Week #ENWChoneybeeweek
13th ~ 19th Week 3: Blossom Week #ENWCblossomweek
20th ~ 26th Week 4: Summer Solstice Week (The Solstice itself falls on the 21st) #ENWCsummersolsticeweek
27th ~ 3rd Break Week #ENWCbreakweek
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:
June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children’s hand with posies.
~ The Months by Sara Coleridge
Special days this June:
- 2nd Spring Bank Holiday: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- 3rd Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- 4th-6th Feast of Weeks Begins at Sundown. (Jewish)
- 5th Whitsun / Pentecost (Christian)
- 6th Bank Holiday Ireland
- 14th Full Moon
- 19th Father’s Day
- 21st Summer Solstice
- 24th Midsummer / St. John’s Tide
- 29th New Moon
Happy exploring!
