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Celebrate nature! : activities for every season
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With Rising Childhood Obesity Rates and children's heavy use of electronics, the need for quality time in nature is greater than ever. Put away gadgets, turn off screens, and discover all that the ...
With Rising Childhood Obesity Rates and children's heavy use of electronics, the need for quality time in nature is greater than ever. Put away gadgets, turn off screens, and discover all that the natural world has to offer. --
Celebrate Nature! is filled with hands-on activities to revive children's connection with nature. Each seasonal sectionùautumn, winter, spring, and summerùintroduces seven themes with countless ways to integrate nature into your classroom. Chapters encourage reflection of your own memories of the seasons and provide activities that address science and discovery, math, blocks and building, language arts, reading, writing, dramatic play, art, and music. Also included are sample letters and suggested at-home activities to support family participation in this important learning. --Book Jacket.
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- Creator
- Angela Schmidt Fishbaugh
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- English
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- First edition
- St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, 2011
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- x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781605540344, 160554034X
- OCLC
- ocn601131798
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Returning to the child's garden -- Autumn nature study : September, October, November -- Winter nature study : December, January, February -- Spring nature study : March April, May -- Summer nature study : June, July, August -- Learning from nature, beyond academics
- Machine generated contents note: Autumn Theme 1: Fall Leaves -- Autumn Theme 2: Monarch Butterflies -- Autumn Theme 3: Autumn's Apples -- Autumn Theme 4: Perfect Pumpkins -- Autumn Theme 5: Spider Species -- Autumn Theme 6: Searching for Squirrels -- Autumn Theme 7: Flying Feathers -- Winter Theme 1: Winter's Snowflakes -- Winter Theme 2: Coniferous Trees -- Winter Theme 3: Bird Exploring -- Winter Theme 4: Large and Little Tracks -- Winter Theme 5: Groundhogs, Shadows, and Burrows -- Winter Theme 6: Who Are the Hibernators? -- Winter Theme 7: What's the Weather? -- Spring Theme 1: Water Sources -- Spring Theme 2: First Flowers -- Spring Theme 3: Oviparous Animals -- Spring Theme 4: Miraculous Seeds -- Spring Theme 5: Tadpoles to Frogs -- Spring Theme 6: Dandy Dandelions -- Spring Theme 7: Finding Stones -- Summer Theme 1: Summer's Insects -- Summer Theme 2: Ready for the Sun -- Summer Theme 3: Summer's Grass -- Summer Theme 4: Relaxing with the Sand -- Summer Theme 5: Busy Honeybees -- Summer Theme 6: Picnic Ants -- Summer Theme 7: Bloomin' Flowers