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Nature study during bad weather

Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-14T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Denver, CO

Tagged: Nature study, winter nature

This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 4 months ago by Pam140.

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February 2, 2012 at 4:29 am
Pam140
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Hello!
I was wondering if there are alternatives to nature study? I live in North Dakota and while the winter this year is mercifully mild, there are days that it is quite cold outside…and windy. It is difficult to sit still long enough to draw something the children see and honestly there are days that I do not want them outside for an extended amount of time.
What have you used as nature study alternatives? There is a nice book titled “Parables From Nature” that I was thinking about and I am sure there are others. It should be quite nice here in a couple of months assuming this weather pattern continues, but until them, I don’t want to skip this part of a CM education.
Thank you so much!
Pam
February 2, 2012 at 10:01 am
MamaSnow
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Have you seen the Handbook of Nature Study blog? She offers several seasonal ebooks that give ideas for winter. I happen to have her newest one for winter, and a number of the challenges given would be appropriate to do indoors or mostly indoors (after a short time outside). She also releases her challenges for free on her blog one week at a time if you don’t want to buy the book, but when you buy the book you get the whole season at once + some extras like notebooking pages. So, either way, that should give you some ideas. http://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com/
As you mentioned, reading lovely nature stories is also a good idea when it is too cold outside.
HTH,
Jen
February 2, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Pam140
Participant
Jen,
Thank you so much! I totally forgot I have the Handbook fo Nature Study book too! I will definitely check that out! Thanks again!

Pam

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