Nature Walk at Holland Ponds Park
When: Friday, May 3rd @ 1pmWhere: 50385 Ryan Road, South of 22 Mile Road
- I have not been to Holland Ponds Park, but it looks like it is a great place to observe nature! Learn more here.
- Paths are not paved, but hard gravel. They say that strollers work fine.
Why: Some words to encourage your heart from Charlotte Mason (in School Education):
"On one afternoon in the week, the children (of the Practising School) go for a ‘nature walk’ with their teachers. They notice for themselves, and the teacher gives a name or other information as it is asked for, and it is surprising what a range of knowledge a child of nine or ten acquires. The teachers are careful not to make these nature walks an opportunity for scientific instruction, as we wish the children’s attention to be given to observation with very little direction. In this way they lay up that store of ‘common information’ which Huxley considered should precede science teaching; and, what is much more important, they learn to know and delight in natural objects as in the familiar faces of friends."
- Walking shoes and jackets if the weather is cool!
- Small snacks if needed to keep your children fueled for the walk =)
- Nature Notebook (not needed, but encouraged!)
More from Charlotte Mason (in Home Education):
“As soon as he is able to keep it himself, a nature-diary is a source of delight to a child. Every day’s walk gives him something to enter: three squirrels in a larch tree, a jay flying across such a field, a caterpillar climbing up a nettle, a snail eating a cabbage leaf, a spider dropping suddenly to the ground, where he found ground ivy, how it was growing and what plants were growing with it, how bindweed or ivy manages to climb”
Leave a comment or text me if you plan on joining me. I hope you will!
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