Today we started with our nature curriculum theme of the week; Winter Tree Maths and English. The aim is to use nature a lot more in our learning methods, and especially in these chilly winter months, bring it all indoors a little! This week it is winter trees. Yesterday, while out hiking, we collected sticks and leaves to use for …
Week 17 Nature Curriculum – The Moon
This is one of the hardest things to get a good photo of, and mine certainly do not do it justice! We’ve had a lot of fun though learning about the moon, even if we haven’t been able to see it for half the week due to heavy low cloud. Today’s session was kicked off by learning about the moon’s …
Week 16 Nature Curriculum – The Winter Sky
What a fantastic week we’ve just had to study this subject. When the temperatures stay well below zero all week, and you get bright winter skies so that you can see spectacular sunrises and sunsets, mixed with howling icy winds, plus snow flurries, you can feel you are truly experiencing winter. For the nature journal activity this week we sketched a picture …
Christmas Robins
As we don’t have a scheduled week of nature curriculum this week, we have turned our nature journal attentions, to this iconic Christmas bird. We have a really friendly one in the garden, who feeds on the feeder, sits and watches the children play, and fearlessly pecks at the ground I am digging very close to me. However, he doesn’t …
Explore Inside a Tree!
This is one of the National Trust’s 50 things to do, and was our mystery story telling place….we found it totally by accident, chasing our sunrise. It was an amazing tree, and I love the colour of the winter sunrise on the bark. You could climb up onto a sheltered platform inside the trunk, and then from there you could …
Nature Curriculum Week 15 – Winter Solstice.
Somehow, even with an international house move, we have managed to get a week ahead of ourselves, and I am not quite sure how! However, we have carried on with this “next week’s” subject, and it will give us a little slackening off time over Christmas (along with our belts!). The Winter Solstice was our festive activity for the day …
Sunsets and Stargazing.
For the month of December I am trying to do something festive each day with our trio. We aren’t managing everyday, but we’ve managed a lot so far….we have decorated the tree and house, the trio have written their letters to Father Christmas, they have received emails from Father Christmas, we’ve made extremely glittery Christmas cards for the grandparents (that …
Nature Curriculum Week 14-Winter Birds.
When we moved we brought our bird feeder with us. Back in the UK it always looked rather too small with huge pigeons trying to balance on it, starlings fighting on it, and magpies insuring no little birds made it close 🙁 Here, however, it has been a totally different story. There seems to always be a flock of various …
Nature Curriculum Part 2 – Our Nature Journals.
Knowing we had a busy day of school and getting ready for our important grandparent visitors, all we set ourselves to do was complete our nature journals for the week. Earlier in the week we’d collected winter plant samples to then draw into the journals from the comfort of our cosy home. This morning I cheated a little. I find …
Week 13 Nature Curriculum – Christmas Plants
It was the first day of förskola for the mini men today, their first full day (well, 8am-1pm) and no Mamma there. So, at 7.55am this morning we all headed up the road to various schools. It was very strange as since the end of March I have always had at least one child home, and 6 days out of …
