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Sowing Seeds of Observation

February 25, 2016 By Lisa

girl watering seeds

It is early in that season of blind faith and believing in what seems the unbelievable. It’s time for sowing seeds. Sowing seeds On wet, grey days I have prepped a few pots for early sowing seeds, even stuck potatoes in the boggy wet ground hardly daring to think that I might harvest something from them […]

Filed Under: field trip parenting, nature study, Shape Hunting Tagged With: family, finding shapes, nature, observation, patterns

Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard

February 3, 2016 By Lisa

Beetle Boy book review

Beetle Boy by MG Leonard – book review.   Beetle Boy is a new release from Chicken House, the first in a trilogy by MG Leonard. Book of the month in Waterstones It’s Waterstones book of the month for February and exclusive to them until general release in March. And I get to review it! […]

Filed Under: identification, nature study, parent interest, reading Tagged With: 9+ years, beetles, book review, family

How not to hatch a butterfly

July 22, 2015 By Lisa

how to hatch a butterfly

Idea 50 of 60 Wild Ideas for the Summer holidays I know it’s written really casually: Hunt for a caterpillar….make a nest….wait for it to turn into a butterfly or moth In my experience it’s never been that easy and I’m still curious how to hatch a butterfly. How not to hatch a butterfly. We’ve had […]

Filed Under: 60 super natural ideas for summer holidays, children's activity, nature study Tagged With: 4-8 years, 7-9 years, family, 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

Midsummer madness

June 19, 2014 By Lisa

hay in sunshine in midsummer

Here we are in midsummer and there’s a global event which happens to us all this weekend. Midsummer and the Summer Solstice June 21st brings the Summer Solstice of midsummer in the northern hemisphere. Right now we are experiencing long daylight hours and barmy summer evenings. (at least I hope we are!) the dark days of the winter seem […]

Filed Under: children's activity, field trip parenting, parent interest, seasons, Steiner Waldorf, World geometry Tagged With: 2-4 years, 4-8 years, earth and the solar system, fairies, family, midsummer, play, solstice, summer

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