This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Tree Study Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
There’s also free calendar with all the ENWC dates for the year to download here.
Happy exploring!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Pond Study Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Happy exploring!
I hope that this Nature Note finds you well!
If you’re new to Exploring Nature with Children, jump right in! There’s no need to begin at a certain point in the year. If you began in September, my hope is that you and your child are enjoying your studies, and learning about the natural world around you.
A wonderful quote to keep in mind as you study is as follows:
“The question is not, – how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education – but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?”
Miss Charlotte Mason
Nature study lays a wonderful foundation for further scientific study, but it is a worthwhile pursuit and field of study in itself. It is important for our children to care about the world about them, and the natural world presents a veritable feast. Little by little, we can do this! Small step by small step.
For those of you who are using Exploring Nature With Children, the weeks fall as follows:
30th ~ 6th Week 1: Autumn Leaves Week
7th ~ 13th Week 2: Autumn Pond Study Week
14th ~ 20th Week 3 Autumn Tree Study Week
21st ~ 27th Week 4: Break Week
28th ~ 3rd Week 5: Pumpkin Week
There’s a free 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!
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 to enable you to connect with other families working through ENWC this year
Seasonal notes:
You may find that you have a glut of apples in the garden at this time of year, or find them cheaply in the shops. Here is a delicious recipe for baked apples.
You may also like to bake ‘Soul cakes‘. Soul cakes are traditional English cake, which date back in some form or other to Medieval times. On All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, children would go ‘souling’ from door to door, asking for soul cakes. This practice is considered to be how trick or treating first began.
If you are not terribly found of spiders, but have noticed them in your home as autumn has drawn near, then you may wish to try the old wives’ tale of popping conkers or walnuts around the home; in corners, mantles, bookshelves, and window sills. I cannot guarantee that it will keep your home spider free, but it may be worth a try!
Here’s to a happy October. Happy exploring!
Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Leaves Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Exploring Nature With Children is an open and go curriculum. To make it even easier, I have created a free calendar for you to download.
Happy exploring!
Wishing you a peaceful equinox, dear readers!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Equinox Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Happy exploring!
It’s ‘Mini-beast Week’ in Exploring Nature With Children!
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
PLEASE NOTE:
If you have the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd edition of ENWC, there’s a sentence missing from one of the Mini-beast week activities. It should read as follows:
Hunt for a garden spider’s web. Wait for the spider to leave the web, then spray the web with hairspray, and sprinkle with baby powder or flour whilst the hairspray is still wet. Carefully bring a piece of black cardstock from behind the web, until the web is laying on the card. Give the web & cardstock another quick spritz of hairspray to fix the web in place. Garden spiders build a new web each day.
My sincere apologies to you all. It has now been updated.
Don’t forget that to help with your planning, there’s a free ENWC calendar to download that has all the year’s dates.
Happy exploring!
Hello there!
I do hope that you’re enjoying your time with Exploring Nature With Children, and are looking forward to the full Harvest Moon this week. It’s one of my favourite weeks in ENWC.
I have given ENWC a little makeover. The content is exactly the same, but I have been able to reduce the number of pages a little. If you have already purchased ENWC, and would like to update your own copy, simply download again using your original email link & you will get the updated version.
Happy exploring!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Harvest Moon Week’. (The full Harvest Moon falls on the 14th.)
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Happy exploring!
Hello friends!
There’s a sentence missing from one of the Minibeast week activities in Exploring Nature With Children. It should read as follows:
Hunt for a garden spider’s web. Wait for the spider to leave the web, then spray the web with hairspray, and sprinkle with baby powder or flour whilst the hairspray is still wet. Carefully bring a piece of black cardstock from behind the web, until the web is laying on the card. Give the web & cardstock another quick spritz of hairspray to fix the web in place. Garden spiders build a new web each day.
This was the missing part: sprinkle with baby powder or flour.
My sincere apologies to you all. It has now been updated in ENWC.
Also, don’t forget we’re switching around September Week Two & Week Three, to accommodate for the Harvest Moon on the 14th. There’s a free calendar to download that has all the year’s dates.
Happy exploring!
