It is a GLORIOUS day in Devon today, perfect for getting outside and doing a bit of nature study. As I mentioned last week sometime, we found lots of newts in our pond, I knew that I really wanted to focus on them soon. They tend to hide away on cloudy days and in fact, …
During the autumn the attention of the children should be attracted to the leaves by their gorgeous colors. ~ Anna Botsford Comstock, ‘The Handbook of Nature Study’ pg 622 For the past week or so we have noticed a yellow hue to the trees in our garden. All of a sudden (or so it seems) …
Last week was our final week of lessons. DH has had a bit of leave before he goes down to Plymouth on Sunday and so this week we really wanted to spend a bit of time together with no commitments as we are only following in three weeks. At the moment we are looking at …
I think that a part of why we lay off nature study in our homeschool for a while was that I was struggling with how to take what we have always done – using The Outdoor Hour challenges – and stepping it up a bit so that it challenged my teens. I’m sure that someone …
Hello everyone! It’s a lovely bright shiny day hereafter our snowstorms of yesterday. Unfortunately, we did not make our art lesson as the passes over the Peaks are both still closed. So instead we went on a lovely snow nature walk and made some window stars which look amazing against the snowy backdrop! I use …
For 3 years now I have wondered and wondered what shrub this could be. I’m not great at identification and always doubt whether I have made a correct identification or not. Most of what the girls and I have learnt about nature is due to following Barb’s challenges. It’s the rich, flaming autumn colours that …
We use the Handbook of Nature Study and the Outdoor Hour Challenges for our Nature Studies The Teasel has been one of this months topic that we did not want to set aside, however… We have been working on this study for over a year. Last spring we planted teasel seeds and nurtured them for …
One of the Outdoor Hour Challenges this month is the Dandelion. Now wehave covered this topic before, so I thought that we would still keep within the wild flower group and choose a different flower. I chose the Cowslip as the countryside is awash with their yellow loveliness at the moment… The weather was rather …
Nature Study is a wonderfully fluid, ever growing wealth of knowledge to be had if you are care enough and are observant in your daily living. One of the areas in our nature study that I have wanted to tackle is a year-long study. For some reason, and this is my ordered, box ticking self …
Yesterday, being the Vernal Equinox, officially ushered in spring thus making it the perfect time to tackle two of this months Outdoor Hour Challenges. I decided that our walk today would be about signs of spring focusing especially on how spring is bringing about changes in the trees that surround us. In keeping with this turbulent spring …
