Observing the Sun’s Position Notebooking Page

| 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 [...]

Finding Color

| November 22, 2009

My sweet Preschooler and I went on our very own nature walk today to seek out color on a somewhat drabby day. This November has been a very mild one, indeed, but also has lacked sunshine. So we determined ourselves to find our very own “sunshine” by finding colors in the brown of late autumn. [...]

Macro in Late Autumn

| November 14, 2009

I’ve been trying to focus in on teaching my children how to see the beauty in all seasons. Towards the end of Autumn when the leaves are mostly off the trees, and things have found themselves to be a dry brown color we focus in on details, because there is where we find remarkable beauty. Taking [...]

The Colors of Autumn

| October 15, 2009

Autumn for us this year has been very wet. Lots of rain and overcast skies. But, on those beautiful sunshiney days we’ve been sure to get outside to enjoy the brillance of the fall colors. Cranberry Red, Flame Red, Pumpkin Orange, Deep Purple and Golden Yellow are some of the colors we’ve been appreciating. Here are some [...]

Migration and Hibernation

| October 15, 2009

As the winter season approaches many animals are preparing for what lays ahead. Plumeting temperatures and lack of food drive many animals to migrate or hibernate. Yet still some stick around to tough it out by adapting. This last week we’ve been busy watching the many signs of animals preparing. We’ve seen large flocks of [...]