This week in Exploring Nature With Children is Blossom Week.
Here are some helpful links for your week:
Happy exploring!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Summer Solstice Week’.
Here are some helpful links for your week:
Happy exploring!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Honeybee Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Happy exploring!
I hope that this June Nature Note finds you & your loved ones well during these extremely challenging times.
If you are new to Exploring Nature with Children, and are joining us for the first time this month, please jump right in. You can begin ENWC at any point in the year, and there’s no better time to get started than the present!
If you began back in 2019, my hope is that you and your child are enjoying your studies, and learning about the natural world around you.
A quote to carry with you this June:
As you are here, reading this page on a website all about studying nature, I think that we can assume that you are vested in encouraging your child’s natural interest in living things!
Please don’t beat yourself up over how much time that your children are not out of doors, or some such thing. Focus on the small tangible ways that you can make a difference. Exploring Nature With Children will surely hold your hand as you study nature with your child, but make nature study a part of family life:
For those of you who are using Exploring Nature With Children, the weeks for June fall as follows:
1st ~ 7th Week 1: Museum Visit Week Many museums have facilities to take a virtual tour during the pandemic, such as the Natural History Museum in London
8th ~ 14th Week 2: Honey Bee Week
15th ~ 21st Week 3 Summer Solstice Week The Solstice falls on Saturday the 20th.
22nd ~ 26th Week 4: Blossom Week
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!
Please keep in mind social distancing, and your own government’s guidelines during these difficult times.
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:
For those of is in the Northern Hemisphere, we tend to think of June as the first month of summer. The daylight hours are at their longest, and nature is in full bloom. If you grow strawberries in your garden, or are able to find them locally, here is a delicious recipe for strawberry jam.
Special days this May:
{ You may wish to take a look at my resource for celebrating this day: Celebrating The Seasons With Children }
Happy exploring!
It’s almost Museum Week in Exploring Nature With Children.
With museums closed all around the world, I have shared links below to some wonderful virtual tours.
Many zoos are also now offering virtual tours:
Other places of interest:
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 traveling!
It’s Butterfly Week in Exploring Nature With Children!
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!
It’s Garden Ant Week in Exploring Nature With Children!
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!
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.
Happy exploring!
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.
Happy exploring!
I hope that this May Nature Note finds you & your loved ones well during these extremely challenging times.
If you are new to Exploring Nature with Children, and are joining us for the first time this month, please jump right in. You can begin ENWC at any point in the year, and there’s no better time to get started than the present!
If you began back in 2019, my hope is that you and your child are enjoying your studies, and learning about the natural world around you.
A quote to carry with you this May:
Miss Mason certainly knew the potential of a single valuable idea., versus heaps of dry facts. Here’s an excellent definition from Sonya Shafer:
“The facts are just something that happened to someone else. The factual account takes all the emotional and human experience aspects out of the equation. But the ideas are common human experiences and emotions that we can relate to and learn from.”
Isn’t this quite transformative for the education of the child! “common human experiences and emotions that we can relate to and learn from.” These ideas with speak to not only the mind of the child, but also to their heart. When given an idea, the child can spend time thinking deeply about it & turning it over in their mind. They get to digest the idea, make it their very own, ask questions, and ultimately form their own opinion as opposed to just reciting, and later forgetting, dry facts.
For those of you who are using Exploring Nature With Children, the weeks for May fall as follows:
4th ~ 10th Week 1: Caterpillars Week One
11th ~ 17th Week 2: Caterpillars Week Two
18th ~ 24th Week 3 Black Garden Ants Week
25th ~ 31st Week 4: Butterflies Week
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!
Please keep in mind social distancing, and your own government’s guidelines during these difficult times.
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:
Keep a lookout on your walks for songbirds and wildflowers. The world is bursting into life! Here’s a smashing craft that you might enjoy:
Special days this May:
Here are some lovely ideas for celebrating Mothers’ Day during Lockdown.
Happy Exploring!
