Winter looks different depending on where you live, so we made two sets of six. If your winters bring snow, start with Cold Places. If yours are mild and wet, start with Warm Places. Every unit also works on its own for $5.99.
Six units · Ages 4–7 · 96 pages
Winter in Cold Places
$24 · $35.94 bought separately
For snowy, cold winters: Snow, Tracks, Bare Trees, Wool and Warmth, The Light Returning, and Sap and Sugaring. That’s one unit a week for six weeks of winter. You get six separate PDFs, one for each unit.
For mild, wet winters: The Rains, Frost and Dew, The Birds That Came South, The Cold Snap, The Winter Harvest, and The Winter Sky. That’s one unit a week for six weeks of winter. You get six separate PDFs, one for each unit.
Seven units, one for each week from the first apples to the first frost. Planned in
order, so you are never deciding on Sunday night what Monday looks like.
$14.50$29
Seven Christian five-day units · 112 printable pages
In this unit we cut an apple the wrong way on purpose, find the star that has been hiding in the middle of every apple the child has ever eaten, and end up with a pot of applesauce on the stove.
In this unit we find out that the yellow was in the leaf all summer, hiding behind the green. We tear one into a jar, wait an hour, and watch the hidden colours climb a strip of paper.
In this unit we follow the circle all the way round — seed to vine to flower to fruit and back to seed. We open one up, guess how many seeds are inside, and then count them in tens until we know.
A young sunflower turns its head to follow the sun all day, then settles facing east once it blooms. We look hard at the seed head and find the two spirals running through it at once.
Find your own pulse, discover how a black bear’s body changes through winter, search for sheltered places outdoors, and build a model den before sharing warm honey-oat porridge.
Scratch stones with a fingernail, a penny, and a nail to discover which is hardest. Choose one rock to carry all week, then end with a shared pot of stone soup.
Discover how much of taste is really smell, ask five people what they are thankful for, make place cards for the family table, and listen to cranberries pop on the stove.
We build a web of yarn between four chairs, sit the child at the centre with one hand on a thread and their eyes closed, and drop a paper fly somewhere on the far side — then find out how she knows. The week ends with chocolate web pretzels.
We swipe a smooth card through the air, then a fringed one at the same speed, so the difference is something you hear rather than something you are told. Then out at dusk to map every sound in three minutes of silence.
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