It’s January 1st and that means a new topic for Nature Book Club. This month we are learning all about winter wildlife and winter nature topics. Winter is a great time to explore nature right in your own backyard or venture to a park or nature center or stay bundled up inside and read some great books.
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Since December’s Nature Book Club theme is Evergreens I thought learning about pinecones would be fun. We do not have a specific book about pinecones but can use our Trees of North America Book or our digital version of the Handbook of Nature Study to help guide our pinecone exploration.
We took quite a few walks around the neighborhood in October and November looking for nature near home. We found out that our neighborhood has a few different types of Evergreen trees which means pinecones to investigate and explore.
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It’s December 1st and that means a new topic for Nature Book Club. This month we are learning all about evergreens and pinecones. Winter weather always gets me thinking about evergreen trees and pinecones. I wanted to share some good selections for kids. Many of these books also have a Christmas theme to them but I think that’s what makes them so great!
Apple Tree Christmas – Originally published over twenty years ago, and out of print since 1998, Sleeping Bear Press is proud to bring this beloved Christmas tale to a whole new audience. Moving and nostalgic, and brought to life by glowing watercolor paintings, it reveals the joy of a very special present and the love that a father and daughter share….
It’s time for another Nature Book Club and this month’s theme is trees and twigs! Can you believe it’s Thanksgiving week already? Where has the year gone! I was a little glad that the leaves took longer to change this year so that we could spend some time on various tree and leaf identification activities. We walked around the block looking for leaves. We attended a primitive skills class and got to collect tons of leaves while at a large park. We went on a nature hike with another family and identified a tree by it’s fruit!
The first thing we identified as was Common Persimmon tree due to it’s fruit! This was super exciting since we had been to this park a handful of times over the last decade but never at the same time of year. I saw fruit on a tree and on the ground around the tree and couldn’t help but pick up a few. The other mom that was with us thought it was a Common Persimmon and she was right!
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It’s September already! Can you believe that it’s time for another Nature Book Club link up? It’s week 5 in our homeschool year and we are moving right along as the season changes and Fall is almost upon us. We have been learning about bees and pollinators most of the Summer and as we head into Fall we are focusing on Botany and medicinal plants with our DIY Herbalism Course series. This ties in nicely with September’s theme of Prairie Wildflowers since Goldenrod is what we have seen most!
We try to get outside and enjoy nature as much as possible and since the end of Summer is is here I thought a Prairie Wildflower Identification Hike was in order! Many of our county or neighboring county parks have areas of prairie that we can enjoy and explore. A few weeks ago we were about an hour away and stopped at a park that was new to us and found a patch of wildflowers.
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