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30 adventures for all seasons
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 14x21cm
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9788859031055
Publication date: 01/03/2023
Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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The volume accompanies children on a discovery of the secrets of nature through the 4 seasons. It offers ideas for learning more about nature and many ideas for carrying out simple outdoor activities like learning to read animal tracks, recognizing plants, and understanding how bees and ants behave. Other activities include organizing pine cone throwing competitions, artist workshops with leaves and moments of relaxation for smelling the flowers… Grasping every detail means knowing, connecting, feeling part of the natural world that surrounds us, learning to live with it and above all learning to respect it.
GREEN Series
The book is part of the GREEN series: games and books to explore and appreciate nature and build an eco-sustainable future.
Experiences for the four seasons
Before heading out to explore nature
What do we need for exploration?
And what should we wear?
The rules of the explorer
In spring
What can we observe and do?
Spring flavors (recipe)
… It takes a seed
Nature is the best painter there is!
Dear tree, how old are you?
What organization!
A hotel for little guests
Who passed by here?
To each its own poop!
In summer
What can we observe and do?
Flavors of summer (recipe)
Whose leaf is this?
With your feet, with your hands
... above the thread of a spiderweb
How many butterflies!
With your head in the clouds
With the nose up
In autumn
What can we observe and do?
Flavours of autumn (recipe)
Pine cone contest
Artist leaves
Under a carpet of leaves…
... and in an old trunk
Who left these traces?
Spiteful wind
Autumn Treasures
In winter
What can we observe and do?
Flavors of winter (recipe)
Atmospheres of light under the snow
Magical snowflakes
The voice of silence
Everyone (or almost) goes to bed!
Tracks in the fresh snow
Bird restaurant
For a more sustainable world
30 adventures for all seasons
To discover the secrets of nature through the 4 seasons, this colourful and engaging guide helps children organize small outdoor explorations, activities and workshops. An original way to get to know nature and learn to respect it.
Structure of the book
Starting with some initial general advices, an illustrated list of things you must have when setting off on an exploration, and the explorer's decalogue, this guide is devided into 4 sections, each seizing the opportunities that each season offers us: a specifc seasonal recipe, ideas for learning more about nature, guided observations, and suggestions for carrying out simple outdoor activities.
Spring
Spring observation and activities, flavours and colours, how to recognize the age of a tree, animals’ tracks and poops
Summer
Summer observation and activities, flavours and colours, how to recognize the leaves of trees, observing spiderwebs, butterflies and clouds
Autumn
Autumn observation and activities, recipe, what happens under a carpet of leaves and inside an old trunk, observing and recognizing tracks, the wind
Winter
Winter observation and activities, recipe, lights under snow, hibernation, observing and recognizing tracks, bird restaurants
The volume offers workshops, recipes, exploration, games, ideas to feel part of the natural world that surrounds us, learn to live with it and above all learn to respect it.
Workshops
Recipes
Explorations
Games
Leaf through some selected pages that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHOR
Manuela Ruaben A Trentino teacher, she lives at the foot of Mount Bondone. She has been a trainer since 2009, and is a scholar and expert in outdoor education. For more than thirty years, she has been sharing her days with children, planning, experimenting and getting excited with them every day.
