Raising Little Shoots
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Such a helpful post, Lori
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My kids have very small nature journals too. Maybe half the size of normal printer paper? 4x6 sounds right.
I love the small size because my kids tend to draw small. So then it looks like this tiny drawing in a ton of white space. Then they get overwhelmed feeling like they have to fill a whole page. Plus it fits easily in a jacket pocket or small bag.
We also invested in small travel watercolor sets (we Carry baby food jars of water) and when our regular color pencils get half-sized they get thrown in another small travel case.
Lovely ideas for little ones :)
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"If you are too tired to do school right now, you will need to go lay down on your bed for an hour and take a nap." Usually only takes once per child in my house!
Love this :)
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I didn't know you had a blog! There goes my afternoon...
you didn't? Come on over & have a poke around ;)
I am also hosting a 'nature pen-friends swap' that you might be interested in.
Thank you very much for your feedback on the earthworm study. I love to hear comments like this :hurray:
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A nice adjunct to this might be this book: http://www.gibbs-smith.com/A-Crow-Doesnt-Need-A-Shadow-P8.aspx
That looks really lovely, thank you for sharing.
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I have written about this very topic on my blog:
Getting Started With Nature Drawing For Both Parent and Child - This post also links to a tutorial I shared on creating a watercolour journal entry.
Supplies For Nature Journaling
I hope they are helpful!
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Thank you for all the lovely feedback on my book, Exploring Nature With Children!
I wrote it to be unique, in that it is a complete, open & go curriculum.
Here is a sample in which you can see the table of contents and a complete chapter. I also have a FAQ on my blog.
Jennifer Dow from Expanding Wisdom has posted a review of Exploring Nature on her blog today, which also may help you to decide if it will be a good fit for your family.
Thank you again, and please do let me know if there are any more questions.
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Absolutely! I am enjoying the ages they are now, but I do also miss those younger days <3
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It is quite mind-blowing!
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Have you seen Exploring Nature with Children? I'm NUTSO for it. :) It's $15, super easy to implement, and you can easily make it work for that age, with or without the ID. She could journal, draw, using a phone to take pictures and make a photobook, use pages from the Giant Science Resource Book if you want worksheets, add library books, etc. etc. Totally customizable. Like literally you open it up and go oh this week it's seed dispersal. GSRB has several nice pages, pick the ones that apply, send her on the walk, make a collection, discuss, take a pic, trace or journal things. It's just SO easy to make happen, and it would fit that in-between girl who maybe needs hands-on but content, etc.
That should be the link.
Btw, you know why I love ENC so much? It's a lot like the zoo days we did last year that my ds loved. He learned a lot more from them than I expected, and I think it was their strong combination of multi-sensory with a single point. Like if we were learning about predator vs. prey, we spent 2 hours doing nothing but that, reinforcing it lots of ways (visually, kinesthetically, auditorily, with games, with application, etc. etc.). And ENC, in its own way, is a lot like that. I'm really impressed so far.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments :) I hope you are still enjoying it!
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yes! we are quite excited :)
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for this!
Rocket Science is giving 10,000 UK schools the opportunity to engage their pupils in a UK-wide live science experiment to contribute to our knowledge of growing plants in space. After participating in a classroom experiment in May and June 2016, pupils will be asked to enter their results in a bespoke microsite so that results from schools across the nation can be collated and analysed by professional biostatisticians.
Two kilograms of rocket (Eruca sativa) seeds were launched on Soyuz 44S on 02 September 2015 with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and his crew, arriving on the International Space Station (ISS) two days later. British ESA astronaut Tim Peake will take charge of the seeds while on the ISS for his Principia mission starting in December. After being held for about six months in microgravity, the seeds will be returned to Earth with astronaut Scott Kelly, currently planned for March 2016.
Once the seeds have returned they will then be distributed to schools signed up to the project. Each participating school will receive 100 seeds that have been on the ISS and 100 seeds that have remained on Earth. The seed packets will be colour coded, however schools will not be told which packet contains which seeds until national results have been published. Online resources to expand student learning will be available on the website of the UK Space Education Office (ESERO) before, during and after the Rocket Science experiment.-
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I agree that it is amazing! The problem that both dh and I had were that the moon, which looked so big to us with naked eye (because of parallax?) looked so small on our photos!
Interesting! I know we perceive the moon to be much larger when low in the sky than when it is overhead; it's an optical illusion known as The Moon Illusion. When seeing the moon close to the horizon, our eyes have objects with which to compare the moon's size, where as perhaps on a photograph, there is nothing with which to compare?
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That's an amazing pic you got. How did you take it? I mean what camera and lens?
Thanks!
It is a *really* old camera - I am looking at it now to see what it is...it is a Sony cyber-shot. I like it because the settings are really easy. I get some gorgeous pictures of nature & the children just by sticking it on 'portrait' & holding down the flash. (I don't even know how to turn off the flash!!!) DH set it up for me on manual before he went to bed, but once the moon has reached total, I couldn't get any good photos because the exposure time needed to be changed & I didn't know how :(
I am too impatient to learn at this stage of my life...it is on my to do list for when the girls have left home :)
It has been a smashing camera.
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I'm in Devon and it always rains here too but we've had 2 clear days before it and a yesterday and today were lovely. So mega frustrating.
That is really frustrating.
It rains all the time in Devon? I am in Lancashire, & I always think of Devon as sunny (perhaps by comparison!!!)
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That is really disappointing when the weather is bad. We live in the north of England where is *always* rains, so I was astonished by the clear skies.
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We stayed up late here, thankfully we could view without it disrupting our sleep too much, as we tend to miss most astronomical events due to the timing. We had a pretty good view and we had an amazing concert of owls in the backyard for awhile as well.
An owl concert! how fantastic!
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A party would have been fun!
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I woke the kids at 4:00 AM and we watched for an hour at least then went to bed again. Everybody was super excited.
I'm not so excited anymore, because now everyone is :smash: and it is only noon.
What was I thinking?? :smilielol5: This is going to be a long day.
I feel for you...I sense meltdowns here later. (& that is just my own!!!)
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I got mine up as well - my older 3 found it very exciting, took tons of pictures and discussing it while looking through binoculars. We had a lovely clear sky and could see it from our front window and front door which we cuddled in front of in our blankets and then warmed up inside while talking to my partner while he was on a break at work about it via computer. While first thing this morning I wasn't sure if it was worth it (A-8 did not go back sleep and is on a hair trigger emotionnaly, and the 3 year old was up bright and early having not been woken and was moody at no one else being up, then A-8 woke up M-6... it was a rough morning) it was a great experience all around.
We took pictures on my camera though I haven't gotten them onto a computer to properly look at them. As we have a street light right outside that the moon was just above for while and I have shaky hands I'm not sure we got any clear ones.
yes, I thought very carefully before waking my 10 yo ;)
It was worth it for us (though ask me how i feel at 4pm!)
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who stayed up / got up / is getting up for the lunar eclipse?
My 12 yo stayed up for it, & I woke my 10 yo at 2:30am. It was utterly brilliant!
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Thanks for sharing!
Teaching the kids to sew and knit
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Our local book cycle & library host knitting groups. Perhaps you could take your wee ones along, and someone could help them out?