Thursday, January 15, 2009

Take a Winter Nature Walk by Jane Kirkland



While we snuggle in our houses, keeping warm, nature is busy outside regardless of the temperature. Use Kirkland’s book to take a winter nature walk. See if you can find a squirrels’ nest, a leaf fall, rotted log, leaf with holes, a bird singing, earthworm casings, bird next, mall hole in a tree for a red-squirrel, feather, chewed nuts, stream, hollow fallen log. Go tracking after a newly fallen snow. Use the tracking guide to help you identify some outdoor friends. Take a picture and bring it to school. We’ll put what you find up on the blog.




Read more at the author's Web site at: http://www.takeawalk.com/