Nuts About Nature – Week 4 ~ Staying Green

| February 20, 2009

Another wonderful class has been accomplished!  I have loved preparing all of the lessons for the Nuts About Nature class, however, I think this one was my favorite.  I learned so much myself!  Below you will find the notes from this weeks class.  I used the following diagrams, which I had drawn up on the [...]

Nuts About Nature – Week 3 ~ Coping with the Cold

| February 15, 2009

First of all I want to say a huge thank you for all your well wishes.  I am starting to feel a bit better today, hopefully this means it’s going to be a quick one and I’m on my way to being done with it. We have now finished our third week of class, and [...]

Nuts About Nature – Week 2 ~ Why is it Winter?

| February 7, 2009

This class was so wonderful!!  Lots and lots of learning happening and even better lots and lots of very interested and engaged kids!  The class was packed full of great information and fun, so without further ado, shall we get started?  One quick note first…since I am leading and teaching this class it is quite [...]

Nuts About Nature – Week 1 ~ Why Study Nature?

| January 24, 2009

   Welcome to class!  We had a wonderful first day, so exciting!  I have an fantastic group of kids to teach.  There are 12 children total in the co-op class I am teaching, they are all 4th graders.  And, yesterday I became aware that all of them are Nuts About Nature, just like me!  How about you?  [...]

Nuts About Nature Class

| January 22, 2009

 Tomorrow I will begin teaching a class entitled Nuts About Nature at our homeschool co-op.  It dawned on me recently that it would be wonderful if I could share the lessons and activities in this weekly class with my blogging friends.  Also, this would be my way of keeping myself accountable to get my planning for [...]