Our theme this Winter Unit has been WINTER ANIMALS. We’ve learned about deer and bears, and this week we studied wolves. Before we started our lesson, I let our students select a wolf pup to adopt. I thrifted all of these so each one was unique. While the kids snuggled their new friend, I shared some interesting facts […]
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nature day forest school – bear
Our theme this Winter Unit has been WINTER ANIMALS. Last week we learned about deer, and this week we studied bears. Our lesson was some fun facts about bears (after I tried to convince the kids we were going to sleep the whole class because bears are currently still hibernating… they laughed and didn’t fall […]
nature day forest school – deer
This was our first day of our Winter Unit + our first Nature Day gathering of 2024! Our focus this unit is WINTER ANIMALS. Each week we’ll strive to understand the general characteristics of each animal (appearance, habitat, diet, etc), identify their tracks, be able to define some terms & build some other general skills in […]
nature day forest school – 2023 overview
2023 was the year we launched Nature Day Forest School and I am in awe looking back at our year. When I was sitting on the couch, trying to pick a name and dreaming of what this could be, never would I have imagined the pure joy it’d bring our family and the numerous families […]
nature day forest school – preparing for winter (hibernation)
Our theme for this Fall unit is Autumn. We have learned about pumpkins, harvest, woodland animals and today we focused on hibernation. We had to live out our motto “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes!” because of the non-stop drizzle this morning. We popped the canopy tent up and huddled underneath for our lesson. […]
nature day forest school – woodland animals
Our theme for this Fall unit is Autumn. We have learned about pumpkins, harvest, and today we studied woodland animals. We started with our lesson which was a roundtable discussion of what animals the kids knew were forest animals and then we read a book that highlighted the forest friends we talked about. Our snack was a really […]
nature day forest school – harvest
Our theme for this Fall unit is Autumn. Last week we learned about pumpkins, and today we studied harvest. For our lesson we read a book that highlighted a variety of cultures and how they harvest food and celebrate the harvest season. The first Thanksgiving was three days of eating, festivities and gathering. Our snack was a […]
nature day forest school – pumpkins
I mean, is it even an Autumn Unit if you don’t start with pumpkins? Our time together began with a lesson where I shared 5 facts about pumpkins that most people don’t know. Then we got into our first activity – dissecting 🙂 I gave the kids this printable and we walked through each block […]
nature day forest school – apple trees
Our theme for this Fall unit is Trees, and over the last several weeks, we have learned about trees that live year round, tree bark, sap & syrup, acorns, leaves and today, for our last session in this unit, we studied apple trees. After a quick lesson, we got right into our activities. Snack was available at the market today […]
nature day forest school – leaves
Our theme for this Fall unit is Trees so we kicked it off with learning about trees that live year round and tree bark, sap & syrup and acorns. Today we tackled leaves. For our lesson we talked about how the leaves give nutrients to the tree and the soil, how leaves & humans are similar and how you can tell what […]