I am so excited to use Outdoor Secrets this coming school year with the Companion! Thanks to all who put it together. There were some topics, though, that were a bit out of sync with our seasons up here in Wisconsin and I really wanted to study them in season (apples, robins, planting seeds in winter, etc). So, I decided to tweak it a little bit so we could study certain topics closer to their season. I couldn’t get every topic to line up just so, but I’m happy with the plan nonetheless. I wanted to share this in case any of you were thinking the same thing!
Wow, that is so great, thank you for sharing! I had gone through the guide making notes in the index as to when to try and schedule certain chapters but nothing as succinct as what you have put together.
Thanks for posting this. We are planning to do Outdoor Secrets next year too, and I was hoping to be able to align it with the season a bit better also. =) I am thinking that we will probably add in some winter-themed picture books (about snow, animals in hibernation, etc) during the winter months since most of the chapters in Outdoor Secrets seem to apply better to fall, spring, and summer. =) After next year we will be back in the tropics, so I want to do seasonal studies while we can.
I don’t have the book yet but am ordering it. We are different that Wisconsin. How about on the oregon coast? How did you figure these dates? I’m wondering how to do it for our area?
We don’t get snow hardly and get lowest around 32 but more like 40 to 50 in the winter. Summers are 55 to 65 and maybe a maybe a week of 80 to 90 at most. Planting season cool veget. Mar. and warm veget. is end of April or May IF the weather gets warm. This year it was first of June.
Thanks everyone! I live in the Madison area where we have four fairly well-defined seasons. Cyndi60, when you order the Companion, you’ll see they have all the lessons planned out for you according to a schedule. What I did, and what you can do is to just look at all the topics and see where they would best fit into your year, ie. plan to study apples when you’re in apple season, or to study seeds when you can plant them indoors prior to planting outdoors. For us, that’s February/March. Keep in mind that I couldn’t get every topic to match up this way, but I picked a few of the most important ones and moved them around.
Thank you so much! I have just ordered the books and will be using them this fall. We live in Montello, an hour north of Madison. I don’t think I’ll be starting school until mid to late September though as we have canning season just around the corner!
I’ve made a word document of your schedule and added a blank line in front of each entry… my plan is to adapt your schedule to our studies here in the Pacific Northwest, and write it down as we go.
thanks again!
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