We are are a week into October and the trees are just magnificent in their autumn colour! I thought it the perfect time to pull a post from our homeschool nature study archives. This post was from 2012 and is as relevant now as it was then. At the start of each new month, I …
I finally got around to putting the finishing touches on our autumn nature table – or should I say autumn windowsill. I should just say at this point that a nature table does not have to be a whole table. There are so many lovley ideas for spaces of all types. This year we have …
Its pumpkin season! Each year we love to take a trip out to our local pick-your-own and choose some lovely pumpkins to decorate our front door and our deck for the autumn. If, for some reason, we don’t make it to a pick-your-own then we make sure to pop a few pumpkins into the weekly …
October – this is when I think the season of autumn is best appreciated! Deciduous trees are ablaze and leaves are gently falling to the ground. Thoughts of winter are still a month away and there is so much to celebrate! Last year, our October had some pretty amazing days! So although today the winds …
Autumn is a lovely time to start a year long tree study. We begin our homeschool nature study on autumn leaves by watching the leaves slowly change colour and learning about why that happens. Once all the leaves have dropped and revealed the tree trunk and branches its offers us a chance to study the …
The autumn equinox has come and gone and I guess that means that we can officially say that autumn has arrived. I have to be honest, so far it hasn’t felt very much like autumn. Its still fairly warm and I’m longing for the days when I can pop on a sweater and not have …
September marks the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. Towards the end of the month the leaves of the deciduous trees will begin to change, cloaking nature in rich hues of golds, reds, russets and browns. Children go back to school, in our case lessons begin once again, and life returns to a …
We have had some wonderful thunderstorms in Cheshire this summer but we certainly have not had as much rain as we would have liked. In some areas of the UK we already have hosepipe bans and this seems to be a recurrent theme lately. I thought that I would pull a post from my homeschool …
Its summer and what better time is there to study insects in our homeschool nature study! They are in abundance right now so I thought I would pull a post from our homeschool nature study archives for you to enjoy. This post is from 2012 when we went on an insect hunt. I hope you …
When I told the girls that we were going to be looking at the Oak tree for our homeschool nature study outdoor hour challenge – they were really pleased. Our introduction to this challenge was done with some friends at our Friday co-op. ‘Although from two to three hundred years is the average age of …
