Going To The Woods…
Category: Autumn
Moss Week ~ Exploring Nature With Children
This week’s theme from Exploring Nature With Children is Moss.
Today was an extremely wet day! We braved the rain to go and feed the pigeons, geese, ducks and swan at our local nature spot.
The geese & ducks were worm hunting..
Pigeon lady..
We hunted for moss..
We found a few, before the rain drove us home to warm up & complete our journals.
Autumn…
Fungus Week ~ Exploring Nature With Children
This week is Fungus Week in Exploring Nature With Children.
We headed to our local nature spot for our Monday nature study.
This morning was perfect Autumnal weather. Foggy, with a slight nip in the air, but not uncomfortably so.
We fed the birds first.
They were, as usual, rather hungry.
Then we went on to hunt for fungus.
We found some beauties!
Then home to complete our journals.
Later this week I shall be posting a tutorial to show you, step by step, how I create the watercolour pages in my journal. I hope this will be helpful.
How is your nature study going this week?
Happy exploring!
Pumpkin Week ~ Exploring Nature With Children
This week was Exploring Nature With Children Pumpkin Week!
This has been our ‘half term’ week. We took a break from our formal learning to relax and recoup.
We went on some walks, big girl had a friend over to stay, little girl went to a Halloween forest school with friends.
We carved our pumpkins (and I forgot to photo us doing so!)
The girls dressed up for Halloween
We went to a local community party, and then trick or treating with friends.
Today big girl stayed in bed, whilst little girl, daddy & I went to the park
My journal for this week
See you next week for Exploring Nature With Children Fungus Week!
I Cannot Endure To Waste Anything So precious…
The Poetry Of The Earth…
Exploring Nature With Children ~ Autumn Tree Study
this week’s activity in Exploring Nature With Children was the autumn tree study. We headed off to our local park, and were somewhat waylaid by pigeons, geese, and ducks..
Elianna took some smashing photos with her ‘phone.
It was a gorgeous day, & we did manage a little tree study!
Rosie’s Redwood
And look what we found nestled in the grass…
Our journals this week:
Happy Exploring!
Weekend Walk ~ Knitting & Fishing Edition!
The Autumn air was very still for our weekend walk.
Rose did some fishing.
I knitted.
Glorious gifts
Happy times
Autumn Pond Study
Hello all
Sorry for the delayed post this week – I have been under the weather.
Our nature walk for this week from Exploring Nature With Children was the Autumn Pond Study. We went on Monday; a beautiful, glorious Autumn day! Unfortunately I forgot both my camera and ‘phone!
I do have photos of our nature journals, however, which we did ‘en plein air’.
I did a very ‘sketchy’ sketch, breaking the rule I give my children; ‘Draw what you see, not what you think you see, or want to see!” But I have to confess that after several years of painstakingly sketching exactly what is in front of me, I do enjoy this more ‘laissez-faire’ style.
Elianna sketched the plant life
And Rose sketched a fish she could see in the shallow, clear water.
