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Below are some fun pictures of our book party for "By the Great Horn Spoon!" We were fortunate to have access to a campground site all morning for our book discussions and activities! The Wild + Free magazine will be featuring our group in a few months and you can read about our fun adventure!… Continue reading Our By the Great Horn Spoon Party

Planning for the Robin Hood book party was easy because Wild + Free put together a beautiful book party plan within their bundle content and we used this to inspire our first book party for the 2020-2021 school year! Before our actual party, we were able to secure a group archery lesson at the local… Continue reading Our Robin Hood Book Party

The squirrels are everywhere the past few weeks! I'm actually a little bit late planning for this lesson because there aren't many nuts left over to gather and observe for our nature study! My backyard was full of them just a couple weeks ago and I went out this morning to gather some up and… Continue reading Tennessee Tree Nuts

While driving in beautiful Tennessee, I've noticed the rolled bales of hay and thought it would make for a great topic of nature study. We can study both the science of grass and the history of agriculture! Playing on some hay bales in 2017 Looking at resources to build the lesson I found a great… Continue reading Grass Study

Several years ago I read Mapmaking with Children by David Sobel. There is an activity of mapping your local watershed that inspired me to look closer at our neighborhood creek and how it feeds into a larger body of water. I've done lessons with my kids out in the creek where we live and we… Continue reading Watersheds

I hope this big monster doesn't scare you away from the post! LOL! We had the best time today at our first Nature Adventure of the 2020-2021 school year! Our theme this month is Tennessee Crayfish. In researching this animal, I found so many interesting facts that I had never thought or read about before!… Continue reading Crayfish/Crawdads/Crawfish

Our previous lesson (here) continued this year as we enjoyed seeing the growth of our peas! My kids still talk about the Hans Christian Anderson story "5 Peas in a Pod" and are anxiously awaiting the perfect time to eat and shell the peas we planted! Now that the danger of frost is gone, it… Continue reading Growing a Garden

Our nature lesson for the month of February was on rocks and minerals! Although we didn't have a lot of time to read and study the history and science, I hope that parents will be able to find these resources helpful in learning more about geology! https://www.instagram.com/p/B8sFTmwBWqP/ We first studied the rock cycle in 2016… Continue reading Rocks and Minerals