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Next week is Earthworm Week in Exploring Nature With Children! Here are some links to help with your nature study:

• Field Guide to Earthworms (produced by Nature Watch in Canada)
• Identifying Earthworms
• The Amazing World of Earthworms in the UK ~ video
• Earthworm Diagram to Label
• The Common Earthworm
• BBC: Did you know? Worms
• How to make a wormery

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: #ENWCearthwormweek

Happy exploring!

I hope that this February 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 February fall as follows:

30th ~ 5th Week 1 Candlemas Week { Candlemas falls on Thursday 2nd } #ENWCcandlemasweek

6th ~ 12th Week 2: Earth Worm Week  #ENWCearthwormweek

13th ~ 19th Week 3: Evergreen Week #ENWCevergreenweek

20th ~ 26th Week 4: Field Trip Week  #ENWCfieldtripweek

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:

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

~ The Months by Sara Coleridge

Special days this January:

• 5th: Full Moon
• 2nd: Candlemas Day
• 14th: St. Valentine’s Day
• 20th: New Moon
• 21st: Shrove Tuesday
• 22nd Ash Wednesday

Happy exploring!

If you’re planning to take advantage of the Winter Sale, please note that the sale ends today, Sunday. 

All products are discounted by 20% in the shop, no code is needed.

Happy exploring!

The Winter Sale Ends Tomorrow!

It’s almost Candlemas Week in Exploring Nature With Children 

Candlemas falls on Wednesday February 2nd and takes its name from the blessing of candles for use in church throughout the coming year, marking the presentation of the Holy Child in the Temple, where Simeon held Jesus and called him a ‘Light to the World’. For many cultures, February 1st was an important festival to celebrate the returning light.

Here are some links to help with your nature study:

• What is Candlemas?
• Presentation of the Lord, Candlemas, and Groundhog Day by Father Scott Winchel (video)
• Bright in winter’s depths: why the flawless flower of Candlemas is a joy forever
• The Snowdrop by Hans Christian Andersen ~ BBC Teach 
• How to make beeswax candles
• Making Earth Candles

Happy exploring!

It’s almost Winter Pond Study Week in Exploring Nature With Children Here are some links to help with your nature study:

• Why Doesn’t Winter Kill all the Fish and Plants ~ video
• Sketching Skies, Water, and Reflections ~ video workshop by John Muir
• Types of Waterfowl in the UK
• North American Waterfowl
• Winter Pond Habitat Worksheet ~ Twinkl

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: #ENWCwinterpondweek

Happy exploring!

It’s almost Winter Tree Study Week in Exploring Nature With Children.

Here are some helpful links for your studies:

• How to identify trees in winter
• How do trees survive in Winter?
• How do trees survive winter cold?
• Why don’t trees freeze & burst like pipes in Winter?
• How to draw trees in winter : John Muir Laws
• How to draw leaves & winter twigs
• Come Outside : Wood
• Winter Tree Finger Painting

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: #ENWCwintertreeweek

Happy exploring!

The Winter Sale is now on!

Enjoy 20% off all purchases until the 29th of January, no code needed.

Happy exploring!

Some helpful links for next week’s Moon Study Week in Exploring Nature With Children:

Moon Phases Calendar January 2023

Lunar Sketching by Daniel Mounsey PDF

Moon Phases Demonstration ~ video

Do We Need the Moon? BBC documentary

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 following along with the community over on Instagram, do pop over and say hello! Think of it as your virtual home school co op! 

To enable you to connect with other families working through the ENWC curriculum, this week’s hashtag will be: #ENWCmoonweek

Happy exploring!

The Charlotte Mason Homeschool Planner is now half price! It is reduced from $10 to $5

The planner runs from August 2022 ~ August 2023, and contains 106 printable planning pages for you to choose from (The PDF is 116 pages in total.) so there’s plenty of pages still to use to enable you to custom build your own planner for the rest of the home school year. 

Written for the Charlotte Mason inspired home educator, the planner will help you to create your own personal road map for the year, and to be faithful in carrying out those plans on a daily basis. Make planning your year a simple and straightforward task, with minimal additional planning time through the year.

You can find out more & download the sample here.

Happy New Year! I hope that this January 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! January is a smashing time to begin to study nature. 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 January fall as follows:

2nd ~ 8th Week 1 Winter Sky Week #ENWCwinterskyweek 

9th ~ 15th Week 2: Moon Study Week  #ENWCmoonweek

16th ~ 22nd Week 3: Winter Tree Study Week #ENWCwintertreeweek

23rd ~ 29th Week 4: Winter Pond Study Week  #ENWCwinterpondweek

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:

January brings the snow,
makes our feet and fingers glow.

~ The Months by Sara Coleridge

Special days this January:

• 1st: New Year’s Day
• 5th: Twelfth Night
• 6th: Epiphany
• 6th Full Moon
• 7th: Distaff Day
• 9th: Plough Monday
• 21st: New Moon
• 25th Burns Night

Happy exploring!