Cindy | April 15, 2010
It’s been so exciting to visit blogs this spring and see how many of you are digging deep into nature studies! We have another guest post for you today from Amy at Teach Mama. She and her children simply used the flowers found in their backyard for a fast and fun nature activity that’s going [...]
Category: Guest Blog Posts, Wonderful Wildflower Activities |
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Tags: backyard, spring, vocabulary
Melissa | April 12, 2010
We have had the opportunity to explore at local ponds lately. And let me tell you, spring is a wonderful time to explore ponds! Pond life is beginning to burst forth not only in the animal kingdom, but in the plant kingdom as well. My oldest daughter took a long trip around the above pond [...]
Category: Peaceful Ponds Activities |
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Tags: spring, water
Cindy | April 1, 2010
Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur is another lovely find for our Book Buzz – especially if you’re hoping to inspire your NaturExplorer to write more poetry in his or her nature journal! For every letter of the alphabet, there is an acrostic poem written on the topic of spring. Not all of the [...]
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Tags: living literature, spring
Cindy | March 29, 2010
Spring is a great time of the year for finding animal signs! Animals are no longer hibernating and many have migrated back “home” for the seasons ahead. At the same time, there isn’t much foliage to hide tracks, scat, burrows and such. Below are some of the fun finds we found on a recent nature [...]
Category: Animal Signs Activities |
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Tags: spring
Cindy | March 16, 2010
This is a reprint of an article I wrote for the CHEK newsletter. Enjoy the article and the free notebooking page! Signs of spring are in the air! You don’t believe me? Go look. Many of our bird friends are just beginning to find their way back to their familiar homes here in KY. The [...]
Category: FREEBIES, General Nature Study Tips |
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Tags: notebooking, spring