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Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Moss Week’.

Here are some helpful links to help with your studies:

• Mosses life cycle (video)
• Moss life cycle under the microscope (video) 
• A general introduction to mosses and how to identify them (video)
• How to create realistic textures (video) This is helpful for not only moss, but all areas of keeping a nature journal.
• How to preserve moss.
• Moss-filled clear Christmas baubles (scroll)

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: #ENWCmossweek

Happy exploring!

I hope that this November 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 November fall as follows:

31st ~ 6th Week 1 Fungus Week #ENWCfungusweek 

7th ~ 13th Week 2: Moss Week #ENWCmossweek 

14th ~ 20th Week 3: Lichen Week #ENWClichenweek 

21st ~ 27th Week 4: Weather Week  #ENWCweatherweek 

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:

Dull November brings the blast,
Then the leaves are falling fast.

~ The Months by Sara Coleridge

Special days this October:

• 1st: All Saints’ Day 
• 2nd All Souls’ Day
• 5th: Guy Fawkes Night
• 6th:Daylight saving time ends (US)
• 11th: Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, Martinmas
• 13th: Remembrance Sunday
• 20th:  Stir Up Sunday The RLS Nature Advent Calendar invites you to join in with this traditional British festivity!
• 24th: Thanksgiving Day (US)
• 27th: First Sunday of Advent Will you be following along with the RLS Nature Advent Calendar?
• 30th: Saint Andrew’s Day

Happy exploring!

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

Here are some helpful links to help with your studies:

• How to draw mushrooms (John Muir Laws video workshop)
• Exploring fungi
• The Magic of Mushrooms – BBC documentary
• Foraging in Autumn
• Mould Time Lapse
• Fungus Study Week resources from 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 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: #ENWCfungusweek 

Happy exploring!

Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Pumpkin Week’.

Here are some links to help with your studies:

• Know your pumpkin
• How to draw a pumpkin step by step
• How to paint a watercolour pumpkin
• Bobbing for pumpkins: The science behind ‘Will it float?’
• Pumpkin soup recipe
• How to carve a pumpkin
• Pumpkin carving templates
• Design your pumpkin – worksheet from 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 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: #ENWCpumpkinweek

Happy exploring!

This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Tree Study Week’.

Here are some links to help with your studies:

• Claire Walker Leslie’s Guide To Sketching Trees
• Why Do Leaves Change Colour & Fall Off In Autumn
• Autumn Leaf Experiment 
• Autumn Tree Template – Twinkl
• Do Trees Hibernate?
• Come Outside : Wood

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: #ENWCautumntreeweek 

Happy exploring!

Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Pond Study Week’.

Here are some links to help with your studies:

• Life in a pond Study Guide
• Pond water under the microscope
• How to draw ducks: profile view. John Muir Laws
• How to draw ducks: The head. John Muir Laws
• How to Draw Ducks: Video workshop
• Come Outside: Geese

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: #ENWCautumnpondweek 

Happy exploring!

Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Autumn Leaves Week’.

Here are some links to help with your studies:

• How to foreshorten leaves: John Muir Laws
• Why do some leaves change colour? Video
• Creative ways to recycle leaves
• How to make a leaf crown
• Come Outside – Hedgehogs {Not autumn leaves, but it’s worth remembering the hedgehogs hibernate in fallen leaves, and lovely for this time of year. }

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: #ENWCautumnleavesweek 

Happy exploring!

I hope that this Octber Nature Note finds you & your loved ones well.

So many of you are new to Exploring Nature with Children, and are joining us for the first time. 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 October fall as follows:

3rd ~ 9th Week 1: Autumn Leaves Week  #enwcautumnleavesweek 

10th ~16th Week 2: Autumn Pond Study Week #ENWCautumnpondweek 

17th ~ 23rd Week 3 Autumn Tree Study Week  #ENWCautumntreeweek 

24th ~ 30th Week 4: Pumpkin Week   #ENWCpumpkinweek 

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:

Fresh October brings the pheasant;
Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

~ The Months by Sara Coleridge

Special days this October:

• October is Black History Month
• 6th World Dyslexia Awareness Day
• 4th-10th World Space Week
• 9th Full Moon
• 25th New Moon
• 30th: British summertime ends
• 31st: Hallowe’en

Happy exploring!

It’s ‘Mini-beast Week’ in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some helpful links to help with your studies:

• Bill Nye the Science Guy: Insects
• Come Outside : Spiders
• How to draw insects. Video workshop by John Muir Laws
• How to draw insects: Iridescence by John Muir Laws
• BBC Bitesize: Mini-beasts
• What is a mini-beast? YPTE

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: #ENWCminibeastweek 

Happy exploring!

Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is Autumn Equinox Week, with the equinox itself falling on the 23rd.

Here are some helpful links to help with your studies:

• Autumn Equinox explained (video)
• The Autumnal Equinox. National Geographic (Video)
• What is the Autumn Equinox – Twinkl
• Solstice & Equinox Journaling : : John Muir Laws (Video)
• Creating a Watercolour Nature Journal Page ~ A Tutorial
• Autumn picnic recipes

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: #ENWCautumnequinox

Happy exploring!