Definitely check out Wendy Pfeffer's The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice. She manages to meld science, nature, myth, history and various ways that different human cultures represent and celebrate…
With the winter solstice coming up next week we have been preparing for winter, celebrating the sun and learning about what causes the changes of the seasons. The story of…
The last crickets have stopped chirping. There is a startling, almost unsettling, shift and rapid change which happens in November in New England that always takes me by surprise. Whereas…
Anansi the Spider is written/adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott. I have found it a compelling story for young children in exploring family, cooperation,spirit animals, the moon, sky and earth,…
Meditating with Children It is never too early to start meditating with children, doing yoga and movement with kids, and integrating some sort of mindfulness practice with your children at…