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Melissa | January 31, 2010
“There is enough to see outside in winter to satisfy any poet. In fact, winter may be even better because there aren’t so many things going on in nature that they crowd each other out. It’s easier to notice what’s there.”
Charlotte Mason volume 1, page 86
Oh dear, I’m almost late in getting this post out! [...]
Melissa | January 30, 2010
You may notice that I’m posting quite a few notebooking pages. I am teaching the Nuts About Nature class again to the kids at our homeschool co-op and I am making these to share with them for their at-home nature assignments. Here is the one for this week. It’s a notebooking page to keep track [...]
Melissa | January 23, 2010
WANTED: Big yellow round object which provides warmth and lifts spirits.
I’m fairly sure that it’s been well over a week now since we’ve seen the sun in our parts. The only thing we’ve been sure to get though is cold rain. Ya’ll know I’m not one to complain about the weather, I really do appreciate [...]
Melissa | January 23, 2010
“Snowflake” Bentley (Wilson A. Bentley) was a man who was passionate about sharing the miracle and beauty in the details of nature. Not only did he love photographing snowflakes but he loved photographing other intricate details in nature, such as a spider’s web, pollen on a flower, bark on a tree, the veins in a [...]
Melissa | January 17, 2010
For our poetry this past week we focused on the poem, When All the World is Full of Snow by N.M. Bodecker.
This beautiful poem is excellent to read for vivid metaphors such as…”and swarming frost flakes fill the trees with billions of albino bees.”
Whenever we read poetry it seems to inspire art, so that is [...]
Melissa | January 9, 2010
I made up this notebooking page recently to use on our winter walks. Click on the icon below if you’d like to download it.
