Nov. 2, 2007
Weekly Nature Walk
Carey Grove Park, Carmel IN
56 degrees, sunny and just plain lovely! Oh, how a crisp fall day soothes the soul.
"During autumn the attention of the children should be attracted to the leaves by their gorgeous colors. It is well to use this interest to cultivate their knowledge of the forms of leaves of trees; but the teaching of tree species to the young child should be done quite incidentally and guardedly. If the teacher says to the child bringing a leaf, "This a white-oak leaf, " the child will soon quite unconsciously learn that leaf by name."
Page 622, Handbook of Nature Study, Anna Botsford Comstock
We are fortunate to have this little park nearby. All of the trees are marked and there is a great variety to study. I have chosen this park for our year long study of trees. We will visit during each season and record how the trees change.
Come take a walk with us...
Nature journal example page:
 This is a Bald Cypress
 Sugar Maple
 Sugar Maple leaf (we discovered that scanning leaves, making color copies and putting them into our journals is less messy, if not as fun as pressing them. We also have a dandy press that we are enjoying as well.)
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