by Jennifer Ward. I'm writing this post mainly to hold me accountable to complete all 52 lessons this year. It's a great little book that gives you ideas to help you engage your children in the outdoors with specific ideas for each season. Most days, we just go outside and play, dig, explore, and are completely unstructured. These ideas seem to provide a little more guidance for kids (or parents) who don't know what to do when they go outside or are bored after 5 minutes because they don't know what to do if they aren't sitting in front of some kind of screen...My kids don't have that issue (they built a roly poly habitat in Will's water table on Saturday complete with dirt, water, grass, tree bark and more), but the activities add an additional educational element to the outdoor time. For example, the first Spring activity is to look for signs of Spring - buds on a tree, flowers, new growth, etc. It also reminds me to point out textures like the soft blades of grass under our feet, and to do somersaults on the grass or roll down a hill. All are fun ideas that my kiddos will love while learning more about the great outdoors.
We plan to do the first activity this afternoon after naptime - I'll keep you posted on our favorite ideas!
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