I hope that this March 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 of March fall as follows:
4th ~ 10th Week 1 Nesting Birds Week #ENWCnestingbirdsweek
11th ~ 17th Week 2: Spring Pond Study Week #ENWCspringpondweek
18th ~ 24th Week 3: Vernal Equinox Week {The equinox falls on the 20th } #ENWCvernalequinoxweek
25th ~ 31st Week 4: Garden Snails Week #ENWCgardensnailweek
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:
March brings breezes loud and shrill,
stirs the dancing daffodil.
~ The Months by Sara Coleridge
Special days this March:
- 1st: St. David’s Day
- 3rd Third Sunday of Lent
- 10th Fourth Sunday of Lent
- 10th Daylight Savings Time Begins (US)
- 10th Mothering Sunday
- 17th Fifth Sunday of Lent
- 17th St. Patrick’s Day
- 20th Vernal Equinox
- 24th Palm Sunday
- 29th: Good Friday
- 31st Easter Sunday
- 31st British Summertime Begins
Happy exploring!
