Tag: nature study

  • Johnny Appleseed lessons

    Johnny Appleseed lessons

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    In September everyone starts thinking of back to school, apples, and in my case apples make me think of Johnny Appleseed. The funny thing is when I first started to write this post back in the beginning of August I had great plans of making this big huge Johnny Appleseed unit, and then I started…

  • Nature Study for Preschoolers

    Nature Study for Preschoolers

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    Every kid is naturally curious. They love to explore the world, and all too often we kill their enthusiasm by turning everything into a serious study. Nature study for preschoolers doesn’t have to be difficult. It can be a fun science lesson as they get out into the world. Sometimes the best science lessons can…

  • More easy nature study ideas

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      I’m going through my old pictures, I’ve got about 2 months worth of stuff that I need to go through, and I found about a month worth of nature studies to catch up with now, so here’s more quick nature study ideas.  Travel over to my last post for the first batch of nature…

  • Crawdads nature study

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        Back on Memorial Day Jeff was mowing the lawn.  It had grown ridiculously high because our lawnmower was broken. While mowing he found: a turtle, a frog, and 3 crawdads. I was out shopping and came home to this on my back porch.  I filled the tub with water and told the kids…

  • Using notebooking pages in nature study

    Using notebooking pages in nature study

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    This past week we’ve had a regular visitor to our backyard.  Meet Tank the turtle.  I found him when our dog was barking at something and scratching at it.  I went over and found this guy all closed up and determined to wait out Mac. He became fodder for our science lessons as we rescued…