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Nesting Birds Week : Exploring Nature With Children

March 5, 2018February 27, 2018by raisinglittleshootsLeave a Comment

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It’s Nesting Birds Week in Exploring Nature With Children

Here are some links to help with your nature study:

How Birds Camouflage Their Nests – BBC video
How to Draw Birds – John Muir Laws
The 16 Most Amazing Nests Built by Birds
Make Like a Bird and Nest!

Happy exploring!

Nature, Poetry, Winter

Happy March!

March 1, 2018February 26, 2018by raisinglittleshoots2 Comments

March brings breezes loud and shrill,
stirs the dancing daffodil.

Sara Coleridge

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Evergreens Week : Exploring Nature With Children

February 12, 2018February 6, 2018by raisinglittleshootsLeave a Comment

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It’s Evergreens Week in Exploring Nature With Children

Here are some links to help with your nature study:

Evergreen Detectives! (video)
Woodland Trust Tree ID App
vTree App ~ Tree ID North America~ iPhone & Android
How to Draw Trees: Conifers ~ John Muir Laws
Making Paintbrushes with Natural Materials
Evergreen Shortbread Cookies
How to Make Pine Resin Salve

Happy exploring!

Exploring Nature With Children, Nature, Winter

Earthworm Week: Exploring Nature With Children

February 5, 2018February 2, 2018by raisinglittleshoots2 Comments

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It’s Earthworms Week in Exploring Nature With Children

Here are some links to help with your nature study:

Guide to British Earthworms
Field Guide to Earthworms (produced by Nature Watch in Canada)
The Amazing World of Earthworms in the UK ~ video
Earthworm Diagram to Label

Happy exploring!

Exploring Nature With Children, Faith, Nature, Nature Study, Winter

Candlemas Week : Exploring Nature With Children

January 29, 2018January 23, 2018by raisinglittleshootsLeave a Comment

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It’s Candlemas Week in Exploring Nature With Children

Candlemas falls on Friday, February 2nd

Here are some links to help with your nature study.

What is Candlemas?
Candlemas Day
Presentation of the Lord, Candlemas, and Groundhog Day by Father Scott Winchel (video)
How to make beeswax candles

Happy exploring!

Exploring Nature With Children, Nature, Winter

Winter Pond Study Week: Exploring Nature With Children

January 22, 2018January 16, 2018by raisinglittleshootsLeave a Comment

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It’s 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
A Guide to Identifying North American Waterfowl

Happy exploring!

Calendar of Firsts, Nature, Our Nature Journals, Phenology Wheels, Winter

Nature Journals : Week Three

January 21, 2018January 18, 2018by raisinglittleshoots6 Comments

My Calendar of Firsts: Week 3

Alder: male & female catkins, plus the crocus and snowdrops are beginning to peep through.

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Winter Tree Study: Exploring Nature With Children

January 15, 2018January 9, 2018by raisinglittleshootsLeave a Comment

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

Here are some links to help with your nature study.

How to Draw Trees in Winter ~ John Muir Laws
How to Draw Snow on Trees ~ John Muir Laws
What Does a Tree do all Year? ~ BBC
Let it Snow ~ The Secrets of Nature ~ Documentary

Happy exploring!

Calendar of Firsts, Nature, Our Nature Journals, Winter

Calendar of Firsts: Week 2

January 14, 2018January 12, 2018by raisinglittleshootsLeave a Comment

Calendar of Firsts: Week 2

Alder & frozen Bramble leaves

What have you recorded this week?

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Moon Week: Exploring Nature With Children

January 8, 2018January 2, 2018by raisinglittleshoots6 Comments

moon week

Some helpful links for January’s Moon Week in Exploring Nature With Children

Moon Phases Calendar January 2018

Lunar Sketching by Daniel Mounsey PDF

Moon Phases Demonstration ~ video

Do We Need the Moon? BBC documentary

Happy exploring!

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