If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
P.B.Shelley
Category: Winter
Nesting Birds Week : Exploring Nature With Children
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!
An Observant Child…
“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.”
Charlotte Mason
Home Education Vol 1. Ch2: Out-Of-Door Life For The Children p.69
Happy March!
March brings breezes loud and shrill,
stirs the dancing daffodil.
Sara Coleridge
Break Week and March Dates for ENWC
This week is a break week in the Exploring Nature With Children curriculum.
Here are my suggested dates for March, but, as always, please follow what is happening in nature where you live, and follow ENWC as you see fit.
4th March: Week One ~ Nesting Birds
11th March: Week Two ~ Spring Pond Study
18th March: Week Three ~ Vernal Equinox
25th March: Week Four ~ Garden Snails
Happy exploring!
Field Trip Week: Exploring Nature With Children
It’s Field Trip Week in Exploring Nature With Children
Here are some links to help with your nature study:
- Planning a Nature Walk for Kids
- Top 10 Tips for Winter Walks with Babies & Young Children
- Woodland Trust activities & ideas
Happy exploring!
Calendar of Firsts: Week 7
My Calendar of Firsts: Week 7
Great tit, snow, and a single, brave wee Daisy!
Evergreens Week : Exploring Nature With Children
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!
Calendar of Firsts: Week 6
I had a magical few moments with this wee fellow this week.
Earthworm Week: Exploring Nature With Children
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!