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🕯FREE Candle Anatomy🕯 We're celebrating lig

🕯FREE Candle Anatomy🕯

We're celebrating light as we reach the midpoint between the shortest day and the spring equinox. This week also includes a traditional Christian festival called Candlemas. It's lovely as all the candles are blessed within the church for use through the year and honors the presentation of Jesus to the Temple.

Our FREE Candle Anatomy poster and worksheets describes the three different temperature zones and colors of our flame. Before introducing our anatomy poster to the girls, I set out a lit candle and our FREE Invitation to Explore printable inspired by Harvard's visual thinking routine to lead them through their investigation. This is an open ended activity that encourages them to make observations and inferences based on what they notice. It's always fun to see what they come up with! We follow up our investigation with reading to find the answers to all those questions.

Both of these printables are featured in our Subscriber Community this week. Join the list in my bio if you're not already a member.

And don't forget to stop by our Nature Poetry page for your FREE Candlemas Poetry too!

(Please make sure littles stay a safe distance from open flames)

🕯FREE Candlemas Nature Poetry & Copywork🕯 .

🕯FREE Candlemas Nature Poetry & Copywork🕯
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It's Candlemas week with #exploringnaturewithchildren ! I have some beautiful bees wax from our local honey house just waiting to be made into candles (it smells so good!) and we will be doing a nature and safety study on fire.
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📖 Visit the Books and Willows website for your FREE Candlemas Nature Poetry and Copywork selection. I came across this lovely poem by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935), titled A Song for Candlemas.
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You can find this selection along with all our other poetry studies on our Nature Poetry page (link in bio). These are freely accessible to everyone, but those who subscribe to our newsletter are the first to know about new releases and also gain access to all our other subscriber only nature learning resources. This week's freebie in the Books and Willows community is our ANATOMY OF A CANDLE FLAME poster and worksheets. Sign up in my bio to join the list to get yours!
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💐Did you know you can send messages with roses?

💐Did you know you can send messages with roses? This language of flowers is called floriography, and was especially important in Victorian society when you wanted to tell someone how you felt about them. People were not allowed to say such things directly. Instead, they used flower bouquets to send each other secret messages. The color and number of flowers all had different meanings.

Learn more this Valentine's Day in our Rose Looking Glass Nature Study on sale this week!

OUR ROSE UNIT INCLUDES:

🌹Nature Study Guides on Rose Anatomy, Lifecycle, Varieties, and Propagation.
🌹Vintage Anatomy & Lifecyle posters and activities
🌹Rose Lifecycle of a Rose Bloom 3 Part Cards
🌹Poetry Appreciation activities and copywork
🌹Print/Cursive handwriting practice
🌹Music Study
🌹Art Study
🌹Roses in Folklore guide
🌹The Language of Roses Activities
🌹Propagate your own rose from a cutting
🌹Make your Rose water and Rose Bath Bombs
🌹 Vintage Rose Memory Match
🌹Rose Study Nature Journal
🌹Book Basket recommendations

Follow the link in my bio to purchase and learn more! Sale ends January 28th.

What's your favorite color of rose?

🌹Love is in the air with our Rose Looking Glass

🌹Love is in the air with our Rose Looking Glass Nature Study on sale 15% off this week!
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My girls can't wait for Valentine's Day and are already busy making rose inspired gifts as we explore this beautiful flower in our nature study.

Our Rose Unit includes open and go learning guides, vintage anatomy & lifecycle worksheets, artwork study, music study, poetry & copywork, folklore, crafting, a Rose Nature Journal, and more.

YOU WILL RECEIVE:

- Nature Study Guides on Rose Anatomy, Lifecycle, Varieties, and Propagation.
- Vintage Anatomy & Lifecyle posters and activities
- Rose Lifecycle of a Rose Bloom 3 Part Cards
- Poetry Appreciation activities and copywork
- Print/Cursive handwriting practice
- Music Study
- Art Study
- Roses in Folklore guide
- The Language of Roses Activities
- Propagate your own rose from a cutting
- Make your Rose water and Rose Bath Bombs
- Vintage Rose Memory Match
- Rose Study Nature Journal
- Book Basket recommendations
- and more!
-63 page unit
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💐Follow the link in my bio to purchase and learn more! Sale ends January 28, 2023.

🧭The NEW Harbor + Sprout Exploration Unit is He

🧭The NEW Harbor + Sprout Exploration Unit is Here!

Come on an adventure with us as we sail across the ocean and discover new trails. The Harbor + Sprout Exploration unit is full of hands on activities and wonder. Here's a sneak peak of what's inside our digital elementary curriculum:

🦋Journey with animals as you learn about their migration patterns in my Nature Study

⚓Learn all about exploring shipwrecks in Science

🔍Discover field linguistics and exploration poetry

📝Write your own adventure journal

🧭Delve into the history of exploration and learn about some of the greatest expeditions of all time

🌏Travel to Puerto Rico with this month's character

🎶Learn about beat, rhythm, tempo, and the instrument called the guiro

🎨Create new works of art in explorative new ways

🧮Practice math through the lens of exploration

🏴‍☠️Enjoy exploration-themed activities including exploration play dough mats, puzzles, and I Spy and Count, letter matching disks, and viking boat anatomy

Follow the Harbor + Sprout link in my bio for all the details.

🐴 👮‍♀️ It might seem strange to see th

🐴 👮‍♀️ It might seem strange to see the police riding horses through our busy city streets, but there are many roles an officer can do better on horseback than on foot or in a vehicle. Horses are strong, fast, tall, and often have a soothing effect on people that are upset.

Learn how horses are working together with their human partners to keep our communities safe in our Animal First Responder Curious Trails Nature Study. We'll celebrate their amazing adaptations that make them perfect members of the force, including their strength and springy feet!

This is just one of four lessons in our latest unit study. We'll also meet a German Shepherd K-9 Officer, a Navy Dolphin, and members of the Crisis Support Animal Team.

Follow the link in my bio to see all that is included!

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