HONEYBEE WEEK | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

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It’s Honeybee Week in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some links to help you with your studies this week:

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be:#ENWChoneybeeweek

Happy exploring!

CELEBRATING THE SEASONS WITH CHILDREN

How are you enjoying the late springtime weeks? Is your pace relaxing a little as we head towards summer?

Here the frothy white and pink hawthorn is in full bloom, and the hedgerows are a glorious sight to behold!

Traditionally, Hawthorn is never to be brought into the home, as it was believed that death would soon follow. Rather interestingly, it has now been discovered that hawthorn blossom contains a chemical that is produced in decaying flesh, so perhaps the connection is not an unsurprising one!

The festivals of Midsummer and St. John’s Tide are almost upon us, falling on the 24th of June each year. If you are hoping to create a meaningful and authentic Midsummer celebration for your own family, you might enjoy my Celebrating the Seasons with Children guide.

CELEBRATING THE SEASONS WITH CHILDREN 
Midsummer and St. John’s Tide


• A simple, open and go format gives you all the information you will need to celebrate this season of the year. Both the natural rhythms, and also the season that we celebrate as a church.


• Within this guide, you will find:
~ Getting started: notes on using this guide
~ About Midsummer and St. John’s Tide
~ Joyfully Observing Midsummer and St. John’s Tide
~ A Book List
~ A poem to enjoy as you celebrate
~ A piece of art to enjoy as you celebrate
~ Midsummer and St. John’s Tide Journal Pages


• Traditionally, Midsummer is celebrated on June 24th, the feast day of St. John the Baptist. The sun, a burning and shining light, is at its highest point in the sky, during the heady and dreamy days of midsummer.
• Find out more & download the sample:

Celebrating The Seasons With Children: Midsummer and St. John’s Tide : 24th June


Happy exploring!

JUNE NATURE NOTE

Book : : The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden

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:

29th ~ 4th Week 1 Museum Visit Week #ENWCmuseumvisitweek

5th ~ 11th Week 2: Honeybee Week  #ENWChoneybeeweek

12th ~ 18th Week 3: Blossom Week #ENWCblossomweek

19th ~ 25th Week 4: Summer Solstice Week (The Solstice itself falls on the 21st)  #ENWCsummersolsticeweek

26th ~ 2ndd 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:

Happy exploring!

MUSEUM VISIT WEEK | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

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This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Museum Week’.

Here are some helpful links for your studies this week:

Here are selection of museums that offer virtual tours:

Smithsonian
Stonehenge : : English Heritage

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be:#ENWCmuseumvisitweek

Happy exploring!

BUTTERFLY WEEK | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

It’s Butterfly Week in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some links to help you with your studies this week:

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be: #ENWCbutterfliesweek

Happy exploring!

BLACK GARDEN ANTS WEEK | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

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It’s Black Garden Ant Week in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some links to help you along:

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be: #ENWCblackgardenantsweek

Happy exploring!

CATERPILLARS WEEK TWO | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

It’s almost Caterpillars Week One in Exploring Nature With Children.

Here are some links to help you along:

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be: #enwccaterpillarsweek 

Happy exploring!

MAY NATURE NOTE

Book : : The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden

I hope that this May 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 May fall as follows:

1st ~ 7th Week 1 Caterpillars Week One #ENWCcaterpillarsweek

8th ~ 14th Week 2: Caterpillars Week Two #ENWCcaterpillarsweek

15th ~ 21st Week 3: Black Garden Ants Week #ENWCblackgardenantsweek

22nd ~ 28th Week 4: Butterflies Week #ENWCbutterfliesweek

29th ~ 4th Week 1 Museum Visit Week #ENWCmuseumvisitweek

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:

May brings flocks of pretty lambs, 
Skipping by their fleecy damns. 

~ The Months by Sara Coleridge

Special days this May:

Happy exploring!

CATERPILLARS WEEK ONE | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

It’s almost Caterpillars Week One in Exploring Nature With Children.

Here are some links to help you along:

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be: #enwccaterpillarsweek 

Happy exploring!

GRASSES WEEK | EXPLORING NATURE WITH CHILDREN

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It’s almost Grasses Week in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some links to help with your studies:

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.

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 the ENWC curriculum. This week’s hashtag will be:#ENWCgrassesweek

Happy exploring!