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Through My Window
One thing about living in a house overlooking the sea is that the view is ever changing. Today lessons were briefly interrupted as we watched rain approach us over the ocean. I took…
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Nature Log – First Frost!
Today we awoke to our first hard frost in southern Devon. Nature always offers up something to appreciate and marvel at and frost is one of those things for me. With the sun rising…
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A Day in June
June is such a lovely month in England, summer creeps in and clothes the countryside is in all its lush glory. Wildflowers like foxgloves, cow parsley, buttercups, common daisy, common vetch and birdsfoot…
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Planning To Implement Nature Study?
It is my habit to check my social media accounts before we start lessons. This morning as I was quickly scrolling through my Facebook feed I noticed that my friend, Lynn, is offering…
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Homeschool Nature Study – Fall Fungi
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…
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Early Autumn Walk
It’s a clear, warm but blustery day today. The wind blowing through the tree tops is dislodging leaves that are beginning to turn crisp and they are floating to the ground. Already my lawn is lightly…
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A Foxy Affair…
Here’s the second ‘nature’ post for the week. Yesterday I decided to take a walk up to the moor. To get there you walk up a country lane which crosses a railway line,…
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Last Day In March…
Well hello! I hope that you all had a very blessed Easter. We had a lovely Easter, our Easter church service on Sunday was fantastic, the joy for the risen Lord was so…
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Nature Study:: British Palmate Newt
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,…
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Winter Nature Walk
Well hello there! What a busy week it’s been! Our school week has been severely interrupted with two days of interviews at college for DD1. I suppose it’s par for the course when…