This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Nesting Birds’.
This week’s walk is all about looking out for, and observing nesting birds.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Do let me know how you get on.
Happy exploring!
We have experienced so much variety of weather this week! Shrove Tuesday was freezing cold, with heavy rains, sleet, and eventually snow. Although this week has been very chilly, some sun has punctuated the otherwise grey skies.
The snowdrops are still blooming, both in the woods and in my garden, and frogspawn is beginning to appear.
Rose did a handsome sketch of the Magnolia buds on our tree.
Her typewriter is currently in favour for all narrations.
I sketched a Daffodil (March is here!) and one of the wee Wrens that visits our feeders.
Happy March!
Back in January, we began to keep phenology wheels to record not only the changes in the natural world, but also the festivals of the liturgical year that we celebrate.
Here are our entries for February, which Rose worked on whilst I read from the February chapter of Roald Dhal My Year, which is new to us, and is proving to be a very lovely, engaging read.
Rose recorded the frogspawn that we found in the pond on Monday, along with symbols for Candlemas and Saint Valentine’s day.
I recorded both the frogspawn, and also Hazel catkins, along with symbols for Candlemas and Saint Valentine’s day.
Our Phenology Wheel posts for the year:
This week has been sunny mornings, followed by rainy afternoons. then a dark, rain-lashed brush with Storm Doris.
Rose found our first garden frog of the year.
There were tears over this one. She can’t draw frogs she said. She doesn’t know how to get the colours right. It all became very sad. She drew the head on a sheet of printer paper. We worked on local colour, and adding in the darks. I remembered the battery operated eraser I had tucked away and I showed her how to use it to make the highlights.
And everything was all okay again.
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Field Trip Week’. To quote Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the places you’ll go!”
This weeks all about choosing a new place to go for your nature walk; either an entirely new place to you and your child, or somewhere you very rarely visit.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Do let me know how you get on.
Happy exploring!
This week has been a bit of a whirlwind, as my eldest daughter was in hospital for several days.
The first thing we did, the day after she returned home, was to go for a family nature walk. It did us all the world of good; blowing away the cobwebs, refreshing us, beauty all around us.
It was a such a glorious morning, spring is most certainly on the way! We found an interesting burrow, sprouting Daffodils, and lots of mud! The birds delighted us with their song!
Rose spied a Coal Tit, which she later sketched.
The Hazel by the pond was full of catkins, which I chose to sketch, along with a lichen-covered Hawthorn branch, still with its berries intact.
A wee reminder that if you are using Exploring Nature With Children, then next week is February Week Four: ‘A Field Trip’.
Happy exploring!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Evergreens Week’.
We shall be exploring how these beautiful trees survive the cold and low levels of light.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Do let me know how you get on.
Happy exploring!
Blustery and cold, this week has been again, either heavy rainfall or beautiful frosts. The feeders in the garden are very busy, hence Rosie’s sketch this week. The woods are still pretty bare, which gives us the joy of seeing squirrels scampering around, hunting for food.
In my journal I chose to capture the flowering Hyacinth from my dining room table, and the full Wolf Moon.
A wee reminder that if you are using Exploring Nature With Children, then next week is February Week three: ‘Evergreens’.
Happy exploring!
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Earthworms Week’.
This week, we are studying the humble, but very important earthworm.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
Do let me know how you get on.
Happy exploring!
Heaps of rain, sun-shiny days, frosts, high winds, we have had all sorts of weather this week.
We took part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch on Monday, so Rose chose to sketch some of the birds that came to our feeders in her journal this week.
In the garden, the Snowdrops are in full bloom, and the other bulbs are poking through the ground. I have a potted Hyacinth in the house which I sketched this week. I also sketched what I think was a garden spider I saw making a web in one of our Holly bushes, very early one morning. It was before dawn, and the spider was a tiny wee thing, so I couldn’t make out any markings. I used a photograph to sketch this monster in my Calendar of Firsts!
A wee reminder that if you are using Exploring Nature With Children, then next week is Week one: ‘Earthworms’, though if you are living in certain snowy places on the globe , it may be too cold for this, so swap out for a different week 🙂
Happy exploring!
