Including a few winter nature crafts in your homeschool always amps up the fun-factor! It’s a great way to get some time outdoors and chase away the ill tempers and you can never go wrong with a bit of fresh air! It’s good for the mind, body and soul. Studies have shown that time spent …
Weather is almost an inexhaustible subject for nature study and at this time of the year, a nature study on frosty weather is sure to be a hit! Our Nature Study on Frosty Weather There is always something different happening, especially this time of the year as we move from Autumn into Winter. At the moment in …
This week we did a seaside nature study. I was reflecting on how easy it can be to let nature study slide in your homeschool. Nature study, if you are not careful, can fall by the wayside (as can composer and artist study) in favour of exam subjects. If these things are important to you …
One of my goals for this year was to be more purposeful in making entries in my nature journal. So far it’s been a fairly good month… I started off by finishing the phenology wheel I kept the whole of last year. I was disappointed at the beginning of the month as I paged through …
Nature Study seems to have taken a bit of a back seat in our homeschool.. This makes me sad as it was something that we did each Friday. I recently sat down to have a think about this and after much pondering realized that just like the seasons so is life. It’s changeable – always fluid. So …
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 …
