Category: Exploring Nature With Children

I’m thrilled to announce the release of the

2019~2020 Charlotte Mason Homeschool Planner!

Packed with pages to enable you to custom build your own planner for the home school year, and written with the Charlotte Mason inspired home educator in mind, this planner will help you to create your own personal road map for the year, and be faithful in carrying out those plans on a daily basis. 

If you follow the Exploring Nature With Children curriculum, the whole year of ENWC is plugged into the calendar for you; no more need to plan out the weeks yourself.

Follow the link to see the full table of contents and a selection of pages. Happy planning!

This week in Exploring Nature With Children is Weather : : St. Swithin’s Day Week’.

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

• St. Swithin’s Day: What is it & will it rain for 40 days?
• St. Swithin’s Day: Weather legend may be closer to the truth than you think.
• Drawing Fog, Rain, Snow, & Dew ~ John Muir Laws (Video)

Happy exploring!

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

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

• How to tell the difference between moths and butterflies
• How to draw a Peppered Moth
• How to draw insects: John Muir Laws
• How to attract moths to your garden 

Happy exploring!

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

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

• Claire Walker Leslie’s Guide To Sketching Trees
• How To Draw Trees (Video Workshop) John Muir Laws
• The Habitat Song
• Bill Nye the Science Guy: Forests

Happy exploring!

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

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

• Bill Nye the Science Guy: Flowers
• Brambles
• Blackberry or Black Raspberry?
• An Identification Guide to Berries
• How to Draw Wildflowers: John Muir Laws

Happy exploring!

It’s Butterfly Week in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

• Butterfly life-cycle printable
• How to draw butterflies with John Muir Laws (Video)
• A hatching butterfly (video)
• Butterfly ID: 5 Common Butterflies -UK
• Common Butterflies of North America

Do let me know how you get on with your own butterflies!

Happy exploring!

It’s Caterpillar Week Two in Exploring Nature With Children!

Here are some links to help you along:

• A smashing list of FAQ by Insect Lore
• Butterflies: Attracting them to your garden:UK
• Plants that attract butterflies:US
• Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis – video
• The Lifecycle of a Butterfly song

Happy exploring!

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

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

• Raising butterflies indoors
• John Muir Laws’ Caterpillar face
• Monarch caterpillar growing video

Do let me know how you get on.

Happy exploring!