Bluebells and Orange Tip butterfly
Category: Nature
Caterpillars Week Two: Exploring Nature With Children
It’s Caterpillar Week 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!
Caterpillar Week : Exploring Nature With Children
It’s Caterpillar Week in Exploring Nature With Children!
Here are some links to help you along:
- A caterpillar face by John Muir Laws
- Raising butterflies indoors
- A smashing list of FAQ by Insect Lore
- Metamorphosis: Caterpillar to Butterfly – video
- Monarch Caterpillar Growing – video
Happy exploring!
Current Nature Journaling
The meadow this week: Wild cherry, Turkey Oak, Ribwort Plantain, Meadow Buttercup, & Ash
Rosie’s Phenology Wheel for April
She sketched one of her new pets: A rat named Roy! For the special day section, she sketched a log. We had a special funeral ceremony for a wee dead frog that she found; it was sent away down the water on a log.
Love that girl!
My Phenology Wheel for April
A Dandelion & Daisy, along with Easter Day & St. Georges Day for the liturgical / special day section.
My Calendar of Firsts this week:
Rosemary in flower, Marsh Marigolds, and April showers.
Grasses Week : Exploring Nature With Children
It’s Grasses Week in Exploring Nature With Children.
Here are some links to help you along:
- Sketching Grass, Rocks, and Conifer Forests by John Muir Laws
- Grass ID
- Grasses, Rushes, and Sedges – Woodland Trust
- More on Grasses, Rushes, and Sedges
Happy exploring!
Wild Flower Week: Exploring Nature With Children
It’s Wild Flower Week in Exploring Nature With Children.
Here are some links to help you along:
- How to Draw Wild Flowers: Video workshop John Muir Laws
- FlowerChecker app
- PlantSnap app
- Summer Wildflowers in Concrete – Video
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: Flowers – Video
Happy exploring!
Nature Is…
‘Nature is the art of God’
Dante
Our Nature Journaling
This week’s Calendar of Firsts features a very handsome Pheasant, we have seen several of late.
Rosie’s Phenology Wheel is a new pretty Rock Dove that has taken to visiting the garden, and a hot cross bun to represent Good Friday.
My Phenology Wheel for March includes Daffodils and Holy Week.
If you’d like some inspiration for keeping your own Phenology Wheel, I have written the Phenology Wheel Guide that will hold your hand as you begin. Keeping a phenology wheel is a smashing way for you and your family to connect both with nature and each other. A way for all the family to gather together to spend time nature journaling; it doesn’t take up much time at all, and is perfect for families who have children of different ages and stages. Everyone can work together, but at their own level.
Let Nature…
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
Vernal Equinox Week : Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Vernal Equinox Week’.
Here are some helpful links to help you along:
- Autumn Equinox explained (video) This is a really smashing explanation for the equinoxes, and is equally applicable to the vernal equinox.
- Nature Journaling: John Muir Laws & the art of slowing down, sitting still, and paying attention.
- Spring Picnic Recipes
- How to sow wild flower seeds
Happy exploring!