Nature study, if you are not careful, can fall by the wayside (as can composer and artist study) in favor of exam subjects. If these things are important to you then you simply have to plan them into your homeschool week. There is no need to lose the joy of learning just because you are …
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 here after our snow storms 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 nature walk. Before I share that with you, a couple of lovely readers wanted to know …
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 Barb’s Outdoor Hour Challenges for our Nature Studies We are not getting nearly enough nature study done around here these days. Things always are a bit up in the air when you have house guests – and that’s our situation at the moment. We have granny staying with us for 2 months which …
