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My Octopus Teacher- film review

November 2, 2020 By Lisa

My Octopus Teacher

Top Netflix recommendation for you. My Octopus Teacher. You have to watch this. I can’t recommend this film enough. Actually left me speechless. Since reading the book Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith on the study of octopus intelligence I’ve been a secret octopus nerd. This film puts all that understanding into beautiful camera work […]

Filed Under: field trip parenting, Nature deficit disorder, nature study, parent interest Tagged With: film review, netflix, observing nature, octopus

Nature Crowns

April 25, 2018 By Lisa

stitching the nature crowns

How to make Nature Crowns. A quick ‘how to’ post on making these Nature Crowns. Everyone wants to be a Tribal Lord or Forest Queen so suitable headgear is a must! This is an activity featured in The 365 Nature Journal on April 18th, although its good for anytime of the year! We did these […]

Filed Under: children's activity, crafts, Nature deficit disorder, Steiner Waldorf, wildflowers Tagged With: 2-4 years, 4-8 years, 7-9 years, collecting, nature, play

Adjusting my Nature Settings

April 19, 2018 By Lisa

nature settings

Where are my Nature Settings? In this world of fast paced connectivity, I realised there was one connection that I’d lost. And I was missing it. It’s quiet absence had left me unbalanced.  My health and mental well-being had plummeted and it took me a while to work out what was missing.  Nature. But I […]

Filed Under: field trip parenting, Nature deficit disorder, parent interest Tagged With: family, nature, wonderful

Galls – shape shifters of the insect world

September 26, 2017 By Lisa

Galls; shape shifters of the insect world

Galls; the shape shifters of the wasp world I discovered galls from a documentary about the oak tree.. since then I’ve been looking for them everywhere. My aim is to collect all the different types, but I might have to travel far flung places. To create Knopper galls the Gall Wasps lay eggs in the […]

Filed Under: identification, Nature deficit disorder, nature study, Shape Hunting, trees Tagged With: 7-9 years, 9+ years, circles, collecting, nature, observation

The Winter of our Disconnect

December 4, 2014 By Lisa

How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale.  By Susan Maushart. A book review by Linda Coyle – speech and language therapist While I’m great at encouraging families I work with in my practise the value of reading, I’m […]

Filed Under: field trip parenting, Nature deficit disorder, parent interest Tagged With: book review, family, TV

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