Exploring Nature With Children: Ants and other insects

As I’ve spoken about before, we are following the brilliant Exploring Nature With Children curriculum for our nature study. This weekend was designated “ant week”, and I thought we would take the week to read and talk about insects in general alongside ants specifically (avoiding caterpillars and butterflies – last week and next week respectively – and…

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Learning about bees 

If you’re in the UK, I hope you’re enjoying the gorgeous weather we’ve been having! We’ve been spending a lot of time outdoors, and Frida has been learning about bees at the moment. Although I didn’t plan it, I have had a couple of opportunities to facilitate some hands-on learning experiences for her. There are…

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On our shelves: Bugs! 

I don’t always theme Frida’s main shelves. However, recently we’ve been looking at colour (you can read my post here) and pretty quickly the whole of the shelves ended up focused on colour. I thought it worked quite well so I’ve kept them themed for now, with a current focus on bugs!  I have recently…

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