As homeschooling parents, you’re doing something remarkable: you’re shaping how your children see the world and guiding them to connect with the Living Teacher who created it all. Nature study, …
How to Start a Nature Group and Combat Loneliness and Add Life to Your Homeschool by Joy Cherrick
As homeschoolers, we seem to run in one of two directions, doing too much or isolating ourselves and our kids. It is so important to find a balance between the …
Nature Walks, Excursions, and Rambles – part 2
In part one of this article, we began looking at how parents and teachers can lead a nature walk so that “satisfactory intellectual results” are encouraged. (Hart, PR 15, p. …
Nature Walks, Excursions, and Rambles – part 1
In The Parents’ Review and the L’Umile Pianta, we read many accounts of nature walks, excursions, and rambles. Some were descriptions of small groups going out, and a surprising number …
Anticipation of Nature
Last week I wrote about our recent attempt at daily nature study. I mentioned that it would be easy to direct their study a bit. My soon to be beautiful …