Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Nature
Winter Sky Week: Exploring Nature With Children
It’s Winter Sky Week in Exploring Nature With Children.
It’s a lovely week to ease you back into a nature study routine. Here are some links to help with your nature study.
The Snowflake Man ~ A short film about Snowflake Bentley
How Do Snowflakes Form? ~ video
Drawing Fog, Rain, Snow, and Dew ~ video workshop by John Muir Laws
Calendar of Firsts: Week 51
Mistletoe and a new moon!
Happy Winter Solstice!
Happy Solstice, friends!
Winter Solstice Week: Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Winter Solstice Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- 10 Things About The December Solstice
- Why the days are shorter in winter and longer in summer (video)
- Billy Nye explains the seasons (video)
- How to Draw Trees in Winter (Tutorial)
Happy exploring!
Winter Bird Week: Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Winter Birds Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- Drawing Birds Tutorial by John Muir Laws
- How to Attract Birds to Your Feeder in Winter Video
- Feeding Birds in Winter
- Are Crows the Ultimate Problem Solvers? BBC
- Seeing Like a Bird BBC
- Backyard Bird ID cards Tanglewood Hollow
Happy exploring!
Calendar of Firsts: Week 49
Christmas trees count as nature study, yes?
We also enjoyed our first snow this week!
Announcing The New Phenology Wheel Guide!
I am so terribly excited to share with you my new Phenology Wheel Guide!
So many of you have been asking questions about our phenology wheels this year, that I decided to put together a short guide to help you along with your own wheel.
A phenology wheel is simply a visual representation of what is happening month by month, in the natural world around you.
The Raising Little Shoots Phenology Guide is a 33 page, photograph heavy guide, to help you step by step, set up your own phenology wheel for the year.
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.
At the end of the year you will have a superb record of the natural world in your own locality. If you were to keep a new wheel each year, imagine the wonder of being able to look back over previous years’ wheels, and all the memories that would stir.
The guide is currently priced at $6, and will increase to $8 on December 31st
Happy exploring!
Christmas Plants Week: Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Christmas Plants Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- Holly, Ivy, and Christmas Plants
- How to Draw Plants Video series: John Muir Laws
- How to Choose the Perfect Christmas Tree
- The Holly and the Ivy. Christmas carol video
- Making Your Own Christmas Wreath: Video
Happy exploring!
Weather Week: Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Weather Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- What causes wind to blow? (Met Office Video)
- Wild Weather: Wind The invisible force (BBC Video)
- Drawing fog, rain, snow, and dew. John Muir Laws (Video)
- Weather experiments (Met Office)
Happy exploring!