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Welcome to today’s giveaway–sponsored by Oak Meadow:
Bring Learning Home with Oak Meadow
“We used Oak Meadow’s fifth grade curriculum for my daughter’s transition from elementary to middle school, and it was a wonderful, unique, and successful experience! ” – Oak Meadow parent
Have you considered bringing your child’s education home, but hesitant about making the change? Try Oak Meadow!
They offer flexible, creative homeschooling curriculum for K-12, or enrollment in their fully accredited, teacher-supported distance learning school:
- K-4 is experiential, playful, nature-based.
- 5-8 encourages independence, intellectual engagement.
- High School offers challenging courses, options to earn credit, college counseling
- Start anytime during the year!
New to distance learning? Oak Meadow’s parent-teacher certification training course will get you off on the right foot. Visit their online bookstore to learn more about Foundations in Independent Learning.
Need more support? Oak Meadow offers an hourly, one-to-one consultation service to support your homeschooling journey. Whether you are a new homeschooling parent with lots of questions, or a veteran with specific topics in mind, their teaching expert can provide you with one-to-one guidance.
From the Oak Meadow blog archive: 12 Ways to Help Your Child Adapt to Learning at Home
The prize
Today one lucky Simple Homeschool reader will win a complete curriculum package, your choice, grades K-8!
(Valued between $450-$570, depending on the grade. Note: K-3 curriculum prize includes the K-3 Enrichment Package.)
How to Win
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To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post answering the question: How old are your kids, and what is your favorite winter nature-based activity to do together?
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Jamie’s homeschool day in the life (with an 11-, 12-, & 13-year-old)
My kids are 4 and 2, my 4 year old will start kindergarten homeschool in the fall. Our favorite winter activity is to go in the backyard and if snowing have a snowball fight and if not snowing to collect leaves, twigs etc. in bug boxes.
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I love to take the kiddos (10,12,14,16,17) out to any water mass and watch the birds we have such an abundance of them in our area 🙂
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My kids are 6,5,and 4. In the winter we have plenty of mild weather even though sometimes it gets pretty cold so we still go to the park and on nature walks as much as possible.
My kids are five and two, and a kindergarten is coming up! Our favorite winter nature activity is definitely to play in the snow. We really don’t get that much of it!
They’re 5 and 1, and snowshoeing for sure. 🙂
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My kids are 16, 13, and 3. Yes, 3. We love riding bikes when the weather allows and doing nature walks, but most of all they love birdwatching in the backyard.
My kids are 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2, and our favorite outdoor activity is just being outside playing.
Five littlies between the ages of 10 and 6.
We have spring-time weather in winter, so we like to ride our bikes and walk the trails.
My kids are 7, 5, and 3. Our favorite this to do outside is going on nature walks looking for fun seasonal things.
I have an 8, 7 and 4 year old. We love to build snow creatures and study all the animal tracks in the snow. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!
MY kids are 4 and 9. We love getting out to sled and build snowmen.
Two kids, ages 11 and 8.
Our favourite winter nature activity is bird watching – we live in northern Ontario and we get pretty intense winter weather, so I really appreciate the hardy little winter birds that tough out the cold season up here. We have a yard that attracts a lot of birds, and for me bird watching is also nice because we can do it from inside the house looking out the window! 🙂
We have four blessings: 15, 13, 11, and 9 years old. Living in Florida, not much “winter” but we like camping, walking, biking, etc, and just being outside in general.
My kids are 7 and 3. We love to put out homemade or storebought bird feeders In our backyard and watch the different kinds of birds that come to eat. It’s fun to observe the birds eating patterns and note who visits us the most. We often name the birds who come back daily and draw them.
I have a 16, and a 11yr old. We love going sledding and making snowmen.
My kids are 10,8,4,2. Our favorite winter activity is exploring our pond when it freezes over.
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My oldest kids are 22 & 18 and I am still homeschooling my 14, 12, 10 & 6 yr. old. I’ve always wanted to try Oak Meadow. Our favorite activity are snow hikes followed by hot chocolate!
My boys are 4 and 8. We love to feed the birds and look for different animal tracks in the snow.
Awesome giveaway! My kids are 9,7,3 &3. We live in Southeast Asia so our favorite winter activity is the ability to go outside without sweating! We love to visit rice fields and search for pockets of nature in our big city!
My children are 12 and 5. We don’t have much of a winter in southern California but we enjoy plenty of nature walks and exploring the tide pools at the beach!
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Shared to my “Up Above The Rowan Tree” Facebook page! (I’d like to mention how nice it is that this one is open to international residents also, since that almost never happens. As a Canadian, I really appreciate that!)
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The little humans that live with me are eight and four. We love to ice skate together.
My son is 9 and will be 10 in a few days. We live in Michigan. Our favorite activity, besides staying warm inside is going sledding down a local large hill or pulling my son around our large yard on the sled.
I have a 13 year old. We enjoy taking nature walks so she can photograph different landscapes.
We are 13, 10 and 6.
We love cross country skiing, but not enough snow this year!
My children are 14 and 9. Our favorite winter activities are hiking in the woods. We enjoy studying how the plants and animals change during the seasons.
My kids are 5, 3, and 10mo. Our favorite winter activity is taking the family ice fishing.
My children are 15, 9, 8, and 6. We enjoy feeding birds in the winter and nature walks.
My kids are 12,10, and 7. We enjoy snowshoeing, skiing, making snowmen- in Wisconsin winter is long so you might as well enjoy it!
Our son is 13. We love skiing in Vermont even though we live in CT. And because we homeschool we can do it during the week and have the whole mountain to ourselves. Such wonderful memories being made. Thanks for offering this!
My boys are 9 and 11. We love going out with our camera and guide to identify all the animal tracks. We also love filling our bird feeders and watching for our feathered friends as they visit. We were amazed at how many have been here even during the snowfall.
We love to go sled riding if the weather is right, or going on nature walks and enjoying the more muted colors of winter.
I have 10 children ages 5-18. We live on a 90 acre farm and have a fire pit close to our house and our favorite winter activity is building a big bonfire and cooking hotdogs or s’mores. We sit out all bundled up and hang hammocks and watch red- cheeked kiddos run around. Play based learning sounds wonderful for my younger children who are adopted.
My kids are nearly 11, 9, 4.5 and nearly 3. We have used Oak Meadow for 3 years and love it. With tight finances, would love to be able to get the next one! Our favorite winter activity is playing in the snow but this year, with the crazy warm weather, the kids have enjoyed digging in the dirt for worms!
My children are 4 (just finished pre-k and starting K) and 7 (1st/2nd grade).
I’m not big on snow, but the girls love playing in it, I prefer ice skating. 😉
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Our little people are 9, 7, 7, 5, 4, 2, and #7 on the way???? our favorite outdoor winter activity is sledding and feeding the birds.
My kids are 10, 6, and 4 and our favorite winter activity is heading outside to look for animal tracks in the snow and trying to identify them.
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My kids are 8 and almost 10. We love that the snow in winter makes it so much easier to see and identify tracks. Plus it is always interesting to see what birds we no longer see in our area, and which ones stick around over the winter.
My kids are 2, 5, 6, and 12. My favorite winter activity as a family is curling up with hot cocoa and a board game or good book! (I am not an outdoor person!) However, my kids like making snowmen.
I have always thought about looking into Oak Meadow curriculum and it would be amazing to win a curriculum package!
My girls are 7, almost 5, and 10 months. We like to go on walks and talk about everything we see around us. The girls also have their own little garden area.
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My daughter is 6. Our favorite winter nature-based activity is building in snow – forts, castles, sculptures, all kinds of building.
My girls 11 & 8 love playing in the snow whenever it snow, here in NYC. Typically our outside activity includes going to the playground. They love the swings all year round. They run and play with their friends or make new ones.
My daughter is eight years old and has been home schooled all of her youth. We used ABCMouse.com during her earlier years but we need more than that now. We have an acre of land and part of that land is wooded so we’ve taken yaupon branches and created a earlier version of a teepee. We enjoy the cooler days but they’re far and few in between here in our part of Texas. We try to do different things outside like gardening or tossing pine cones into a pile and gather leaves while we’re out on our walks. This winter has been different since it gets up to the low 80s and only two freeze days so far. We used to have more cold days in the past. I’m watching my daughter grow up every day and I’m not missing it all. Thanks for offering this curriculum to those that are looking for a different way to home school.
My kids are 4, almost 2 and soon to be in June. Going on Nature walks and identifying animal tracks are favorites of our kids. Along with sledding, snow angels and construction work in the snow.
We live in rural Idaho and we’ve been hit hard with snow this year! Our favorite winter activity has been staying in and reading aloud all our nature books getting ready for spring! My 4 year old is waiting to try out a butterfly net and a critter cage.
I have five kiddos. The two who haven’t left the nest are 12 and 15. We loved snowshoeing when we lived in northern BC. Now that we live in the southern US, we enjoy being able to bike in the winter~
My 2 boys are 4 and 6 months old. We live in Kuwait, so winter is the only chance we can enjoy the outdoor. Our favorite winter activity is park hopping.
My twins are 6 years old. We love to build snowmen and look for animal tracks in the snow. We also love to feed and watch the birds.
I have three sons, ages 10, 5, and 1. We live in Texas, so we love just playing outside and taking walks in the winter because summer gets too hot to do anything outside.
This is a curriculum I have been researching a lot and haven’t quite made up my mind, it would be neat to try it out for sure! My kids are 9 1/2, 7, 5, and 2 1/2!! Our favorite winter nature activity is bird watching!! We love figuring out what birds visit us during the winter and how that’s different from the other seasons! We want to try to make some homemade bird feeders too!
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My kids are 6,4, and 2. In the winter we still go outside everyday in our backyard and we love to gather sticks and explore the dirt and see if we can find any creatures hiding.
My kids are 15, 13, 11, 9, 6, 4 and 1 year old twins! We enjoy bird watching and also reading and looking at snowflakes in the winter.
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Our daughter just turned 11 and since we live in Vermont, winter activities are plenty. We love exploring the snowy trails in the woods behind our house and braving the frozen lake when it’s safe to venture out!
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My kids are 6 and 4 and we love going sledding and identifying the birds that come to our feeders. and looking for animal tracks in the snow.
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We just started skiing with our 8 and 6 year old this winter and we love it! Skiing has quickly become our favorite winter activity. Our local ski hill offers a weekly homeschool day at a discounted price. We have gone in all kinds of weather (blizzards, warm sunny days and negative temperatures) each was unique and lead to sweet family time.
My little ladies are 8, 5. 4. and 2. Our favorite activity is ice skating!
My kids are almost 5 (currently completing kindergarten stuff as she wishes), 3, and 1….we are actively trying to figure out what curriculum to use with our daughter this fall. Our favorite activity is feeding the birds with homemade feeders, suet treats, and garland.
My children are 9, 8, 4, and 2 years old. Our favorite thing to do in the winter is just to pay outside in the snow together. We love to build snow people and make snow cream to eat together. We don’t get a lot in TN, so it’s extra special when we do!
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My son is 4/almost 5 (4 & 11/12ths, as he likes to tell people). Where we live winter is the rainy season, so we do LOTS of puddle jumping, and love to watch the big snails crawl out and leave shiny trails… and occasionally save them from their questionable choices, lol.
My children are 3 and 10 months and we are determined to homeschool. Our favorites winter outdoor activity is nature walks with plenty of puddle splashing.
My children are 8, 11 and 13. We love exploring, bird spotting, and playing in the snow during the winter.
My kids are 6,4,2, and and infant. We live in the Deep South, so our favorite wintertime activity is playing in the mud.
Kids are 14, 12, 10 and 3.
Favorite winter nature activity is playing in snow (them, not me….I watch from the warmth of the house and make the cocoa!)
My girls are 4 and 5.5 years old- the youngest is about to start kindergarten and the older is about to start 1st grade. When we get snow, we love to sled, of course. We also like to feed the deer and birds in our yard and take pictures to add to our home nature scrapbook!❤
My children are 14, 11 & 10. With the weather being in the 70s this month, my children have enjoyed simply being outdoors! They also enjoy bird watching and playing soccer.
My JacqRABiTS are (almost) 1, 4, 7, 9, 9, & 11. We live in the SE USA so we don’t get much snow. We do love to hike in the winter. Less humidity and bugs, plus bare trees let us see more views!
We have six children aged 14, 11, 9, 6,k and twins 2 and a half . We enjoy long coastal walks and lots of outdoor adventures during the winter. In summer it is very hot here and then we swim in the sea lots! We live in Malta in the Mediterranean Sea.
My children are 8 and 11.Since we live in the South our winter season doesn’t change much, therefore our favorite nature outing is hanging out at the beach together!
My kids are 15, 14, 9, and 6. We love to play outside in the snow and dig tunnels in the snow. We use Oak Meadows and love it!
Our children are 9.5, 7, and 4. Our favorite winter activities are playing on the giant snow pile and pretend ice skating in our field.
Hi, my kids (that I still homeschool, and not adults) are 18,14,11,6. We live in Texas, south Texas so this year are winters are beautiful. We go outside, to the beach, or to the park. Things we would normally do in the Summer if it was 110 degrees outside. 😀
My kids are 13,11,11,and 6. Our three oldest are girls who we have homeschooled since the beginning. Our youngest is our son who we adopted from foster care almost a year ago. He has been in public school for K & 1st, and we will start homeschooling him next year. Very exciting!
Here in Texas winter can be like all of the seasons so when it’s warm we love to play at parks and when it’s cold we love to snuggle by the fireplace and read or play games.
My kids are 6 and 3. Our favorite winter activity this year is skiing! They amaze me!
My boys are 7 and 10. I am becoming very discouraged with public school curriculum and am seriously considering homeschooling them. Our favourite outdoor winter activity is fort building out of snow to see which design lasts the longest. There are many freeze and thaw sessions here so a lot of forts have been built! We also enjoy tapping maple trees in the spring to make syrup.
My kids are 5 and 1. We love playing in the snow.
My son is 11. We live in the White Mountains, so there is always something to do outside no matter the season. Hiking ans snowshoeing are our faves. Been using Oak Meadow since I started homeschooling him 4 years ago!
My kids are 9, 8, 5, 3, 1 and 3 months. We live in the SE US so winters are extremely mild. On days like today where it is 75 degrees, we love going on long nature walks either on trails or the beach. We always come home with some new find for a “collection”: a pinecone, or shell or sometimes even sharks’ teeth.
My son is 7 and we’ve had a lot of fun this winter feeding and keeping track of our birds.
My children are 9 and 10 years old. During the winter our favorite outdoor activity is hiking through the woods exploring areas that are not accessible in the summertime. We can often see more wildlife as well. It’s always exciting to see a momma deer with her baby! Thank you for this opportunity!
My kids are 8, 7, and 5. We love watching our bird feeder in the winter, and sledding. Just yesterday they built a snow tunnel and sledding hill at the end of the driveway.
My children are 13,13, and 2. We love to bike ride and take nature walks. I love taking the kids to the lake to show them the ice fishermen.
We LOVE Oak Meadow! I am currently using OM Kinder and OM 2nd grade for my two daughters. I would absolutely love to win this so we can purchase 3rd grade for next year!!
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Oh and we don’t have much winter here in Texas but we love bird watching and making homemade feeders for the birds!
My kids are 11,9, and 6. Our favorite activity during the winter is sledding. We have lots of snow here in ND this year so we have some giant snow hills in our own yard!
Kids are 6 and 8, and we love Oak Meadow! Our winters are not very wintry (SC) but we love to hike, even when it’s chilly out. We have lots of birds all winter long so making birdfeeders, edible garlands, etc is another fun activity.
My son is five and we enjoy snowshoeing.
Our kiddos are 11 and 13. Our favorite winter time nature activities are taking care of our backyard birds and splashing in rain puddles! Thanks for this opportunity!
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My little ones are 4 and 6 years old. Our winter days here in southwest Texas don’t involve snow, but rather temperatures in the 60s. This means we spend our days going on hikes, to the parks, or to an indoor heated pool for a swim. 🙂
My boys are 7 and 9. So far we haven’t had much of a winter in Georgia, but usually we like hiking and birdwatching in winter. We are just hiking and birdwatching in shorts and t shirts instead! 😉
My children are 4 and 2. The 4 year old we will start homeschooling for kindergarten in the fall. We live in the south so our favorite winter activity to do outside is go to the beach and build sand castles.
My kids are 11, 10, 6 and 4. We live in Florida so don’t have much of a winter, but we enjoy talking nature walks in winter to compare what little changes we notice when it is cooler.
My kids are 17, 11, 9, and 2. In the winter, we still love to observe the birds that hang around our property. The kids still enjoy exploring our creek, as well.
hi! we have 2 kiddos, 8.5 and 5.5. Right now we’re reading ‘The Secret Life of Trees’ so we have been looking at trees in a WHOLE new light and it’s pretty amazing. This coming September will be the first time we’re homeschooling so some direction with a curriculum like Oak Meadow!
My children are young 4 months and 2 years old but we have enjoyed outdoor exploring and indoor “camping” activities (building forts and making s’mores).
My kids are 8, 6 and 3. When there is snow sledding and fort building. With all the mild weather we have had lately we have been enjoying hiking , nature walks at the creek and family kick ball. Thank you Jamie for this blog, it is truly a gift.
My kids are 5, 3 and 7 months and we love just being outside exploring the woods or sitting under our willow tree having a chat.
My son is almost five and since we live in south Florida our favorite nature activity is to go to the beach. We love looking for living creatures in the shells and building sand castles.
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My kids are 10, 9, 7, and 5. Our favourite winter activities are sledding and ice fishing!
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My children are 12, 9, and 3. We love skiing as a family in the winter. Not only is it fun and great exercise, we have found it teaches so much about courage, teamwork and appreciating nature.
Love this Blog! My children are 9 and 12 and we love nature walks and the beach.
My girls are 5 and 9. During the winter, we love to keep our bird feeder filled to the brim, watching all of the birds up close.
My kids are 20, 18, 13 and 9. My 9 year old is my nature baby. We love hiking during the winter.
My kids are 12,10,7,5. We like to gather sticks and pine cones to make art. Snowman building with outide natural decorations and looking for tracks.
My kids are 4 and 6 and just love to be outside and explore whenever they can!
My girls are 9, 7, and 3. We love sledding down a nearby hill in the winter! It is so much fun to be outside in the winter!
My kids are 9, 7, & 4. We live in sunny Tucson, AZ so our favorite “winter” activities are enjoying the gorgeous weather. We spend time hiking and going to the park. When the occasional wintery weather comes (or we’re in a different snowier part of the state), we bundle up and play in it! (For a short while, that is????)
My kids are 10, 9, 7 & 4. While we do a lot of sledding as skating on our ranch, this year all four kids tried downhill skiing and it has quickly become a new favorite!
I have one lovely 7 yo, our favorite winter activity is to build snow forts and snow people.
My kids are 14, 10 and 6. Our favorite winter-based nature thing to do together is go cross-country skiing.
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Our favorite winter nature-based things to do are ice-skate and go hiking with cleats!
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My kids are 2, 5 and 7 and our favourite winter activities are looking for animal tracks in the snow and building igloos.
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My son is almost 6. Our favorite winter-based activities are to build snow people/fairies, go sledding, and winter hiking!
My kids are 4 and 2, and where we live winter=rain so our favorite activity would have to be puddle stomping!
Our children are 15, 12, 7 and 1. Our favorite outdoor activity is going skiing or going sledding. Thanks!
My kids (that are still being educated at home) are 16, 15, and 11. We enjoy hiking when it’s not entirely too cold.
My kids are 13, 11, 8 and 3. We enjoy bundling up and playing in the freshly fallen snow here in the Northeast.
My sweet babes are 7 and 9. We love sledding and winter hiking! Thanks so much!
My kids are 9, 7 and 5 and our favorite winter activities are downhill skiing and sled riding!
She is 4 1/2 and we love to build snowmen and bake together.
My kids are 2, 6, 7, and 11. We enjoy sledding together in the winter.
My kids are 17, 14, and 8. Because our yard is flat, if it snows we have to pull the kids on the sled with the 4-wheeler. Great fun!
My kids are 16, 14, 12, and 7. We’ve not been in an area with snow in 6 years! We miss it so much!
Our daughter is 9, our twin boys are 6 and our littlest just turned 2. In winter we love to go hiking, sledding, skiing, snowshoeing, have snowball fights, and general playing around in the snow when it’s here. We just tried ice skating this year and LOVED it too!
My kids are 9 and 7. We love sledding and quiet winter nature walks.
Our son is 5, and we love to spend time at the beach – rain or shine, winter or summer!
my boys are 11, 8 & 5. we have moved recently & are lucky enough to have a sledding hill in our backyard. that is how we love to spend our snowy canadian winters!
Our youngest son is 10, and we enjoy walking in the woods!
My children are 8 and 12. Our favourite nature based activities are, camping, bushwalking, tending out veggie gardens and foraging.
My kids are 12, 8, and 4. We don’t experience a cold or white winter where we live but we always enjoy the clear days that time of year at the beach.
My children are 14, 12, 11, 9, 7, and 5. Their favorite outdoor winter activity is making houses under the pine trees where they can be sheltered from the Oregon rain!
My children are 11, 7, and 5. We love to explore birds in the winter!
Our children are 15, 13, 11, 9, and 4. We love going for hikes in the winter – especially after a fresh snow!
My kids are 16, 10, and 6. Favorite winter nature activity is sled riding and then drinking hot chocolate.
My kids are 7 and 9, and here in Texas we don’t get a lot of “winter”. It’s been 70-80 degrees most of this winter, so we have spent a LOT of time outside. They love to gather sticks, flowers, grass, and mud an vs make all kinds of creations and study them.
Thank you for the opportunity to win!
My littles range in age from 4 to 13!
Snow play, hands down, is the favorite winter activity in nature.
Forts are usually the favorite but this winter there has hardly been enough snow for a tiny snow angel ????
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My daughter is 8. In the winter we do a lot of in the kitchen science projects! Thanks for the giveaway!
My kids are 5 and 8. We live in North Idaho where it is very cold and snowy most of the winter. When we can get out we love to go sledding. We also really enjoying starting seeds for the garden and watching them grow under our grow lights in late winter. Getting to work with the seeds and soil helps get us through the last few weeks of winter, knowing that we will soon get to be outside more!
My kids are 4, 2 and 2 months. Currently our favorite outside activity has been nature run/walks. My boys have so much energy!
My kids are 12 & 15. We love any snow we get and love to make maple syrup taffy. Thanks for the giveaway!
My kids are 13, 12, 9 and we live to get outside for nature walks whenever we can!
Lobe this curriculum. My babies are infant-11. We love doing winter nature walks and love doing waldorf inspired activities. Thanks for the giveaway!
My kids are 2.5 and 5, we live on a farm and have to feed, water and check on animals. One of our favorite things to do is look for all the signs of the little creatures and animals that live around our farm. Raccoons, opossums, skunks, coyotes, mice, birds, moles, squirrels, etc, all leave their marks in the mud or around the barn and in the morning there’s always a new story to tell. We like to figure out where they came from, where they went, and what they were doing. Imaginations take us on a fun and exciting adventure!
My children are almost 4 and almost 8. We enjoy walks just after the snow falls and taking care of the birds at our feeder station.
My kids are 9 and 5. As we live in the desert, our favorite winter nature activity is desert hikes. They love to scramble up and down the dunes while searching for lizards and animal skeletons.
My kids are 6 and 11. New to the north, this was our first white winter. Sledding is our favorite!
My daughter just turned 8 years old. Our favorite winter activity is traveling… we try to live an endless summer 🙂
My 6 year old and I love to bundle up and walk on the beach collecting beach glass and shells!
My daughter is 10 and our favorite winter activity is to make snow angels.
Ages 1 and 3.5. In winter the 3 year old loves walks and outdoor play, while the baby has been mostly in the stroller or carrier. Snowbanks and tree hugging are favorite activities!
My kids are 5,9 and 11. We love to snowshoe together in the winter.
My homeschooled kids ages are 16,14,12,11,8….and our favourite winter nature activity is going in the woods next to our house and checking for new buds on trees, checking out deer dung next to the tree line, and different mosses and barks deer have been nipping at…
Our kids are 5, 3 & 1 (with one on the way). We would like start a homeschooling schedule with our eldest in place of starting her in tradition kindergarten next year.
Our favorite outdoor activity in the winter is being nature detectives and searching for signs of wildlife including tracks, food and homes!
my daughter is 5, and we like ice skating and playing in the snow, but we haven’t had much winter in philly this year!
My children are 9,8,5,3 and 10 months. Our favorite winter activity is tromping through the snow at night; the way the snow brightens the darkness and silences the environment is magical. In moments, 4 Angels appear on the scene…snow angels 🙂
My kids are 8 and 10. We enjoy playing out in the snow and then warming up with a nice cup of hot cocoa.
Would love to win this, you have no idea!!! My oldest went to Waldorf school(she’s now nineteen.) The rest of my daughters are homeschooled: 10, 7, 5, 3, and 2 months old. We’ve been loosely following a Steiner inspired approach to learning. The girls and I enjoy playing in the snow during the winter months!
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Hello! My kids are 6 and 3, and we like to hike and explore the creek in our neighborhood.
My kids are 15, 13, and 11. I have prayed to be able to use OM… but the cost and no scholarships. I even suggested a payment plan. As God wills. Thank you for this. I love your OM reviews! Fav winter nature study: we have a pond next to our house. We have charted it thru the seasons and winter is so interesting. The kids are always surprised by what survives all winter. They are testing the water for ph and looking at it under the microscope. They have to break the ice. It is turning from pond to swamp, and we have learned so much about wetlands …. even during snow and ice. Adaptation, botany, and just drawing lessons for art there ….
Our littles are 5, 4, and 2. We love roasting marshmallows in our wood burning stove. Cuddling together to read on the couch. Eating warm bowls brimming with comforting soup. Playing in the pale cold sunshine.
My boys are 5 and 2. Our favorite winter nature-based activity (when we lived in Ohio) was going on a scavenger hunt in the winter through the fresh fallen snow. Then building a snowman and making snow angels. Now that we have moved south we still do our scavenger hunt and now have added a search for worms under the rocks!
My children are ages 7, 5 and 1, and our favourite activity is walking around the local bird sanctuary to observe snow geese, Owls, cranes, Eagles and of course ducks and more. Not too much snow up here in Vancouver BC (this winter was exceptional).
My children are 7 and 9. We love playing in the snow and then enjoying hot chocolate! With marshmallows of course!
My daughters are 13 and 11, and my son is . We are Malagasy and in our country, winter is not so cold like in yours, then our activities are the same. By the way our favorite one is swimming in the seaside. Thank you for opening this giveaway for international.
My son is 7.
My children are 11, 10 and 4. Our favorite winter nature activity is visiting the ponies at the barn and giving their fuzzy warm bodies hugs!
My children are 12 years, 11 years, 8 years , 6 years and 5 years.
We love to hike in the snow, and we also love ice skating. 🙂
I have an 8 year old daughter. This is our first year homeschooling and we love being able to spend lots of time outdoors. In the Winter, we love sledding and we also enjoy walking/hiking in the many state parks in our area.
My kids are 10 and almost 5. Our favorite nature based winter activities are snow play (when there’s snow) and making feeders for the birds.
My kids are 6, 4, and 2. We loved sledding and building snow forts in the winter. This November we moved to Texas where it’s not so snowy, so we had fun hiking, looking at bugs, and discovering the outdoors of our new home!
My boys are 10, 10, 12, and 14. We enjoy being outside year round, but in the winter we enjoy observing the woods without the greenery. There are so many things to notice when they aren’t covered with vines and foliage.
Mine are 7 and 4. We love to check on the creek near our home and see how it changes in the frigid MT winter.
My kids are 5 & 7 and they love traveling to visit family in snowy locations (we only get rain) and playing outside all day.
My kids are 2 and 2 months. We love making paths in the snow.
My 3 boys are 6, 4, and 1. We just got snowshoes to start getting out more and can’t wait to have more winter hikes!
My son is 5. We live in Florida so our favorite winter activities include taking care of our garden, nature walks and bike rides. We’ve been considering Oak Meadow for a while and originally found them through your blog. Thank you for that and for offering this giveaway!
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My kids are 5, 8, 10. In the winter we watch a lot of documentaries and educational shows.
My children are NB, 19m, 3, 4, 5 and 8. Our favorite thing to do is go to the beach in winter when we get the chance. Ocean storms are so fun! (We live in northern Oregon).
My babies are 8 and 10 and we winter camped this year along with cross country skiing and ice skating. Making the best out of living in the Great White North of Minnesota!
My kids are going on 8 and 9. Out favorte winter activity is playing games indoors and hiking when it’s not raining!
My kids are 1 and 5, and we live in Florida. Our favorite wintertime activities are gardening and going to the beach.
My boys are 12, 7, 3, and 8 months. We live in a milder climate w warm winters and love going for walks. The boys love collecting sticks and rocks a creating things with what they find…usually weapons though ????.
My kids are 8 and 3 and we love jumping in rainy muddy puddles. Lol!
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My daughter is 9 and absolutely loves sledding
My kids are 7, 5, 3, and 9 months and we love to go sledding in winter!
My boys are 5 and 3. One of our favorite winter activities is to tromp through the woods following the deer footprints. It’s always fun to see where we end up!
My kids are about to turn 2, 7, and 10. We love snuggling up with books during the winter!
My kids are 11, 8, 5 and 2. We just went downhill skiing for the first time and wow was it fun!
my kids are 9, 7, 3, 2 and our favorite winter nature activity is to play in the mud : ) (We live in Texas…)
I have a 4 year old son. We have lots of hiking trails so we love going for walks to look for different animal prints. We are always finding something new and exciting!
My kids are 7, 4 1/2, and 3. We like taking a walk in our yard and finding things to look at under our microscope.
I have two preschoolers. We love to sled and have big bonfires in the snow!
We live e in hot Vegas, so winter is good weather for outside play, my kids love parks, ages 3,5,7,9
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My children are 5, 3, and 8 months! Our favourite outside winter activity is birdwatching!
My kids are 8, 5 and 1. We love to catch toads in the summer and play in the woods year round!!
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My son just turned 5 and even though we haven’t done official unit studies yet, our favorite thing to do this past winter was take pictures of nature outside (we live in Central Texas)!
My Kids are 16, 13, 11 and 8. We love skiing-both downhill and cross-country. Also sledding! :o)
Six and seven years old. We hike year round in Colorado’s mountains!
I have a 4 year old and 8 year old girls. We live in California so nature doesn’t really hold us back from experiencing outdoors. We like to go hiking during this season. It gives us a chance to see the normal landscape through a different lense. It’s fun seeing plants naturally “winterize” themselves and learn how to identify them when they aren’t blooming.
7 and 9 year old boys. They love exploring the outdoors and comparing the seasons. And playing in snow when we occasionally get some!
My kids are 11, 9, 6, 1 and our favorite winter nature-based activity to do together is nature walks. We live in FL, so not too much winter to experience.
My daughter is almost 4. She loves when we go camping during the winter. We live in Ga so our winters are comfortable and not too cold.
This is our 4th year of homeschooling. My children’s ages are 13, 11, and soon to be 7. Our favorite outdoor, nature-based winter activity is looking for footprints the snow!
Our kids are 7 and 9. We love to draw the same tree every season and compare them. If snowing we do snow science experiments and nature hikes for animal footprints.
My kids are 14, 12, 9, 7, and 4. In the winter our favorite ways to study nature are learning about snowflakes and then playing in the snow. We also enjoy nature walks in our neighborhood.
My children are 16, 14, 12, 10, 7, 4 and 21 mos. Their favorite winter nature activity is building snow caves.
Hi! My children are 7, 5, and 2! They are are lovely girls and we have a lot of rain in the winter, so we like to put on our rain boots and rain jackets and grab our umbrellas and head out to find lots of puddles to jump in!
I have a 4 and 2 year old. We love building snail homes with plant bits, rocks and mud. If it’s too muddy we build crazy forts and read by flashlight (though not needed).
My daughter is almost 4. We really love camping in the cold weather.
My kids are newborn, four and six. We love to get out to the mountains to go for snow walks in the forest, sliding, and making snow forts.
My kids are 11 and 13. We don’t get snow often but when we do, they love to going sledding .
My kids are newborn, four, and six. We love to go up to the mountains to go for snow walks in the forest, sliding, and making snow forts.
My kids are six, three, and two. We like playing in the snow – making snow angels, snowmen, and snow forts. :o)
My kids are 3, 2 and newborn. Our favorite thing to do outside is play in the snow and dig with the kids’ excavator!
My daughter is 10 years old and she loves ice skating. We are at the ice rink right now! Thank you for the opportunity!
My kids, age 8 and 5, love to build snow forts or to make the snow into a ramp to slide down! Thanks!
My 3 daughters are 6, 3 and 14 months. Our favourite winter activities are sledding in the snow and keeping the black-capped chickadees fed : )
My children are 8 and 6. Our favorite winter activities are bird watching and ice skating on frozen puddles. ❄️❄️❄️
my kids are 11, 9, and 7. Our favorite thing to do in the winter is go for a walk and feed the geese that migrate to our area. We also love looking at how different things look in the winter.
My kids are 10, 8, and 2. Our favorite winter activity is exploring the beach – can you tell we’re in the south? 😉
Our kids are 9 and 11 and we enjoy cross country skiing together and working together to bring split wood into the basement for our wood-burning stove.
My kids are 14, 10, 8 and 8. Our favorite thing to do in the winter months is to sit around a campfire reading books and playing board games. When it snows we go outside and build snow forts and have snowball fights.
My kids range from 6-10 and their favorite “winter” activity is playing outside. We live in a tropical area, so American winter is cool season for us and the perfect time to play outside before hot season hits.
My children are 15 almost 16 and 7 and 6. We really enjoy hiking in the woods trying to discover everything we can including deer scrapings on trees and different foot prints to see what all animals we can identify and everything else nature has to offer. We would count ourselves blessed to win. Thanks so much for tge opportunity.
This would be lovely!! My kids are 3, 5 and 7 – another little one due in July! I’ve always been interested in Oak Meadow!
We have three kiddos, aged 5.5, 4 and 2.5 (and are getting licensed as a foster family)! We live in the Seattle area, so snow doesn’t happen often, but we love puddle jumping! 😉
My children are 4, 6, 9 and 11. They love exploring in winter – ice-covered puddles, frosty crystals, muddy spots. Would love to give Oak Meadow a try 🙂
My children are 9, ALMOST 7, and 4. We live in a part of the country were we have fairly mild winters, so going out puddle-stomping and trying to spot nests while the trees are a bit naked are about as winter specific as nature-study can get for us. 🙂
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I have three girls who are 4, 2.5, and 7 months. Our favorite winter nature activities include nature walks at our local nature center and searching for seashells at the beach.
We have a 14 year old boy, 12 year old girl and 11 year old boy – our favorite winter activity is hiking. We also enjoy checking the rain gauge – this year we have had more rain in Northern California than Seattle!
My grandson is 8 years old and in third grade. He enjoys nature walks and sometimes in winter he enjoys ice skating.
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My youngest kids are almost 9 and 11. We love to play in the high desert snow before it melts!
My children are 4, 7 and 9 and our favorite winter activities are nature walks and bird watching. We often walk to a local park and find items to collect on the way there, and they play in what we call “the woodsy area” of the park.
I have three boys a 5 year old and twins who are 20 months. We live in Florida so our favorite winter activities are playing in the back yard or at the park.
We have 4 kids, ages 1-7. I’m homeschooling our two oldest, first grade and kindergarten. We live in Montana so we’re limited in the winter but we try to get out for walks and hikes when it’s not too icy and snowy. 🙂
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My kids are 3,5 & 7. We love the snow here! Nature Walks are so incredibly peaceful and the winter. We also, of course, love just playing around in the snow. Just starting to love bird watching. Would LOVE to win the grade 3 Curriculum. I Love Oak Meadow – especially the nature-based science in it. Thank you!
My kids are 11, 9, 7, 5, and 3. We love to go for winter nature walks!
Wow!! I have been looking into Oak Meadow and would love this! My kids are 10, 8, 7, 4, and 2, and we love identifying animal tracks in the snow.
Hi there! My littles are 6 and 3-year old twins. This winter we have had such a mild one that we are still able to take hikes at state parks. If we have snow, my oldest likes making snow volcanos with lots of colors.
My kiddos are 8 & 11.
Since we live in Florida, we don’t really have “winter”, but the weather is cooler & more pleasant, so we love to hike.
My son is 9 y/o he loves going on walks , nature walks and bike riding when weather is good.
My kids are 9 and 6. We are fortunate to live in a lovely mountain town and like to get out on winter nature observation walks and hikes as often as possible! Thank you for the chance to win 🙂
My children are 4 and almost 2. Our favorite winter nature-based activities have been watching our oranges change, the leaves fall off our tall trees and ants rebuilding their homes as the weather starts warming up here in Florida.
My kids are 4 and 12. Our favorite winter activity is to play at the beach!
My children are 17, 8 and 5. Our favorite winter time activity is soccer! We live in Florida and soccer in the winter is amazing because it isn’t too hot! We love Oak Meadow. Our high school senior is finishing up some classes this year and we would love to use OM for our younger children.
My kids are 5 and 3. We love going out to find animal tracks in our back yard!
My kids are 12, 9, and 5. In the winter we love to go on hikes to see what interesting things are happening in the woods in the winter. We love to see how the ice forms on the creeks!
My kiddos are 5 and almost 1. We currently live in the South US, and winter is super mild with no snow. None of us handle heat well, so winter here is a perfect time to play outside any time of the day. And another plus, mostly no bugs right now!
Hi, my kids are 7,3, and 8 months. In the winter time it is a toss up between building snowmen and sledding. In the warmer weather, they love playing in the mud building cities and homes for their dinosaurs. Thanks! 🙂
My boys are 9, 5, and 1 and we LOVE OM!! Have never had NEW OM curriculum before and would so love to win!!! Our favorite winter activity is sledding….tied with snow shoeing which the boys did for the first time this year…so fun!!!
Mom of three boys ages 3, 6, and 8. Our favorite winter activities include geocaching (living in the South, it’s best to hunt for caches when the ticks aren’t everywhere!), hiking, and praying for the rare sighting of snow :).
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Kids are 9 & 12. Hiking always tops our list!
my kids are 5, 3, and 18mos and our favorite nature activity in winter is feeding the birds =)
I’ve had my eye on oak meadow for years now! My kids are 7, 5, 3, and 1. I’ll admit that I don’t love getting outside during winter, but we do like to observe our neighborhood wildlife, even if it’s from inside the house 😀
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My kids are 4, 8, and 10. Since we live in Texas where winter is the nicest weather of the year, we enjoy going for nature hikes (really walks, because can you call it a hike when there are no hills/mountains?).
My girls are 7 and 4, and we love nature walks, hikes, and exploring gardens even in winter because our climate is mild. It’s in the upper 70s here today!
My boys are 10, 7 and 2. Our favorite winter nature activity is making hanging birdseed “cookies” and keeping our bird feeders full so we have lots of winter visitors! This winter in TN has been very warm so we have been getting outdoors everyday to play and explore.
6, 4, 2 and we love to go to our local nature center. There are very warm winters here, so it is perfect.
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My kids are 7 and 5 and we love to take walks when the weather is mild and watch the birds building a nest in our birdhouse!
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Our kids are 9 this week and 10. We love sledding and wrestling in the snow.
We have 6, 4, and almost 2 here, and have actually just started lookinginto Oak Meadow. Thanks for the giveaway and sharing the discount!
My kids’ favorite thing in the winter is to play in the rain, which leads to lots of fun and discussions concerning earthworms. We get to hold them and watch them move, and then put them in our garden and talk about what they do for the soil. : )
My boys are 3 and 5. Our favorite winter activity is to eat snow. Literally! We patiently wait for snow days and when enough snow falls we eat it. We also love catching snowflakes with our mouths. The one who catches the biggest snowflake wins. My 5 yr old started both winter traditions a few years ago and we have continued it.
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My boys are 11, 8 and 3. They love hiking trails.
Our kids are 9, 7 and 6. We love to go ice-skating on a pont nearby. This year it stayed frozen for a long time ????.
My kids are 12, 11, 9, 7, 4 and 1. I don’t know if it counts as a “nature activity” but our favorite winter activity is to come home and get all cozy around a fire (wood is “natural” and fire is too !)
My kids are ages 11, 9, and 4. We love sledding but have to drive an hour and a half to do it
Our children are 5, 2, and 1 month. Some things that we like to do in the winter are swimming, bike riding, and painting outdoors. We are lucky to live in Florida where it is warm all year long.
My children are 12 and 9 (“and 1/2”). We live in snowy NH and love all wintery outdoor activities, but our favorite thing to do is celebrate the Iditarod. (Most people don’t know that dogsledding is big in New England too!) Every year to celebrate the start of the Great Race, we host a Kid-A-Rod. All our friends come -homeschoolers and non- and the kids are the “dogs” (complete with furry ears) and the adults the mushers and we have “dog” races on the lake with special sleds my husband made! It is a blast! Then we have a bonfire complete with a huge pot of boiling maple sap (it’s also maple sugaring time here!) to pour over snow (white snow only, of course 🙂
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My kids are 5,3 and 6 months. We live in Ireland where the winters are mild and wet so we love jumping in muddy puddles, hunting for bugs in the garden and watching the birds that visit our bird feeders . Excited that I can actually enter a give away! !! 🙂
My kids are 15, 12 and 10. We don’t get much of a winter here in Oklahoma, but we love playing in the snow and spotting winter birds!
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My kids are 2,5, and almost 8. In winter, We love to travel to the high desert portion of our state (Oregon) and enjoy the heavy snowfall, as well as our nature walks to see different wildlife there (porcupines, owls, deer, etc.).
I have 9 and 7 year olds. We like sledding and snowboarding in the winter.
Thank you for this opportunity! We have two children, ages 10 & 8. Our current favorite winter time activity is hiking in the woods and pasture and playing at the creek.
My kids are 3 and 6 and our favourite winter activity is skating right now!
Hi!, My munchkins are 8 and 5 years and our favourite winter activity is cooking on the outside fire and growing calendula flowers! (we are in Australia in the subtropics so we can grow flowers right through the year!!!)
My kids are 14, 12, 9, and 5. Our favorite winter-nature activity to do together is hiking and watching the birds.
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My children are 5 and 3… we love animal watching. Looking for signs and tracks of animals and watching birds come to our feeder.
My kids are almost 7, 3, and one on the way! My oldest loves playing in the snow, but I think he also enjoys learning how animals change for winter (brown rabbits turning white, etc)
Hi! My munchkins are 10, 7.5, 4, and 2 🙂 We love playing card games! Sleeping Queens is a current fave. xo
My kids are 12, 9 and 5 years. Our favorite winter activities are reading stories by the fire, going to Christmas Markets here in Germany, playing in the snow and baking cookies.
My kids are 8, 5, 3, and 21 weeks along with number 4! My kids love playing in the snow during the winter, but we live in the south so we rarely get any. They always enjoying playing outside though; with their dogs, on the trampoline, exploring in the woods, going for walks in our neighborhood, going to the park…anything outside. They also love learning about how snow & ice are made, and what animals do during winter.
My children are 5, 8, 10 and we love skating and sledding, though this year our snowfall as been a paltry amount. We also enjoy watching the birds and squirrels at the feeder. They only seem to come in the colder months.
My darlings are 1, 4, 7, 9 and 10. This winter we are living in a pretty cold place and get lots of snow for about 5 months of the year. However, this winter we’ve been the most active outside. So… been out, bundled up, breathing fresh air- even if it’s freezing fresh air, I must say is out favourite thing this winter 🙂
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We have six kids and would love this!
My kids are 13, 11 and nearly 9. We love to sled when there is snow, bike when there is not and walking our dog. We love nature hikes, too!
My son is 4 and will start kindergarten next year. Our favorite thing to do in the winter is hike in the mountains. We see much more wildlife this time of year than in the summer when the trails are crowded.
Hi thank you for this opportunity! I have a 6 year old being homeschooled and a 3 year old, we love marine biology and playing by the ocean, and also are obsessed with geology, and gem and minerals. Everything about mermaids and magical sparkly wonderful rocks and crystals are so fun for us to learn about.
My kids are 13, 10, 8, 6 and 2. When we get snow we love to go sledding!
My kids are 5 & 7.
We love reading and playing games together in the winter!
My boys are 10, 6, and 4. We enjoy going to the beach in the winter. It stays pretty warm where we are, especially this year. Snow would be a welcome distraction any year 🙂 Beach walks and shell collecting are a lot of fun!
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My girls are 4 and 2. We love being outside, no matter what season it is. My girls are both collectors and enjoy finding sticks, flowers, pebbles, etc. which they lovingly describe as treasures.
Our children are ages 23, 21, 20, 18, 11 and 4. We love bird watching in our South Texas backyard! We’ve had lots of Cardinals visiting us this year. They are so pretty among the bare branches – But that seems to be changing quick. It seems spring has sprung! Yay 🙂
My children are 7 years,3 years and 8 months and it’s difficult to find things outside to do with all of them at once – we have a nice garden and it has a mudpie kitchen and when the weather is not bad, I enjoy just being outside with them and watch them play with dirt and leaves 🙂
My daughter is 10, 11 tomorrow!
Favorite winter activity is making pine cone bird feeders, looking at snowflakes up close when the sun shines on them, making snow paths…
My children are 1.5 and 4.5. When it snows, we like to bring our shovels and buckets to the park. We’re in the middle of a big city but sometimes we see a red-tailed hawk in the trees. Sometimes we participate in our local free forest school which encourages letting the kids lead nature exploration. They wander around and check out logs, bar, pine cones, etc. It can be pretty cold though!
My kids are 11, 9, 7, and 5 and we are planning to homeschool next year for the very first time! In the winter our favorite activity is hiking in our yard. We collect pine cones, sticks, leaves and anything interesting we can find on our hikes and draw them when we get back inside. The kids recently found a box turtle shell! When there is snow we love to go sledding, build ice forts and snowpeople and/or snowanimals!
I have 6 and 10-year-olds. We love making bird feeders in winter and sitting by the window with our hot chocolate every morning to see which birds we can spot 😉
My daughters are 4 and 3months. Our favorite thing to do during the winters would have to be nature walks.
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My kids are 5 and 8 and we enjoy sledding and winter hikes!!! I would love to try Oak Meadow out!
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Our boys are 6 and 9. During the winter we love to go skiing, sledding and snowboarding but unfortunately the weather has been too warm here to do much of it! Next week we are going to upper Michigan for 4 days to get our skiing in before spring gets here!
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Hi – thanks for this opportunity! I’m looking into homeschooling my three kids, ages 4, 6 and 8 and Oak Meadow curriculum sounds amazing! We moved from Tucson, AZ to New Hampshire last year so our winter activities here in NH are all so new with all this snow! We’ve jumped right in with learning to ice skate and snow shoe. My kids favorite part about snowshoeing is creating artistic lines in fresh snow (like hearts, shapes, and words). Again, thank you for all your words of wisdom through this blog!!
My children are 10 & 13, we love to explore the woods on our property all year long, as well as taking hikes & camping when we can. 🙂 thanks
My kids are 5, 4, and 8 months. Our favorite winter time activity is watching the snow fall and drinking hot chocolate when we come in from playing in it!
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My children are 6, 9, and 12. We live in the northeast US and have lots of snow – we love sledding and “boot” skating on our little pond. We also love finding the fresh animal tracks after each snow.
My children are 19, 14, 12, and 2. (I homeschool the youngest 2.) In the winter we try to walk every day and get out to one of the many beautiful parks in our area at least once a week.
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I have a 7 year old Son with special needs (ASD) We spend time outside walking through our woods and sledding in the snow.
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My kids are 13, 11 and 9. Our favourite winter activity in New Zealand is collecting leaves and fallen sticks to make creations together. Some have been very large and impressive.
Kiddos are 8, 5 and 1 year old twins. Our winter has been non-existent this year so we’ve been able to act like we’re in spring!
My kids are 12, 9, and 5.
We live in the South, so winter usually means great hiking weather! We love going to our local state parks and exploring the woods, observing the changes that happen in nature through the different seasons. 🙂
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My kids are 17, 15, 12, 8 and 5 – homeschooling the youngest 3. We are at the end of a hot hot summer here in Australia and can’t imagine winter activities, but seeing as we don’t get snow here, I think our favourite outdoors thing to do is have a fire! Sometimes we have competitions to see who can keep the smallest fire going (quite tricky).
My kids are 7 and 10. We like drinking hot chocolate and watching movies in the winter. Thanks.
My daughter is 10 (currently 4th grade). My favorite winter activity is reading books/watching the movie 🙂
My kids are 10 and 8 and our favorite winter activity is bird watching from our sunroom. We just got a new feeder this year!
My children are 7 and 10. We love bird watching in the winter.
I would LOVE to win! Still trying to figure homeschooling out (haha!) and this curriculum sounds like something that would work well for us. My kids are 8, 6, 4, and two (with another on the way :).
My children, 7 and 4, and I love eating fresh snow, building snow horses, being mesmerized by the texture of winter.
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My kids are 14, 5, and 2. Our favorite winter activity is singing! We do it while we clean, bake, play games, basically all the time. We make up songs and sing ones we know!
I have a 2nd grader, kindergartner, and 2 year old. In winter, we love nature walks and most days are sunny here in Colorado. If it’s snowy, we love all snow activities but especially the ones right outside our door.
I have two sons 17 and 12. I think my favorite winter activity is…snuggling under a blanket and reading. Does that count? lol
Oldest son is 16, middle daughter is 13, and youngest son is 8.
snow used to be our favorite winter activity until we moved to Florida! Now winter is the best time to be outside biking, hiking, anything we can do outside before it gets TOO hot!
We are in Australia so it’s pretty hot at the moment but in winter we love to explore the beach in our neighbourhood looking for shells and crabs and other sea creatures. My kids are 6.5, 5 and 2.5. x
My children are 5, 7, 10, 13, and 16. Here in the South we love to play outside on s
spring-like winter days.
My children are 6, 8, and 10. They love to do art outside in all kinds of weather! Winter is a really fun challenge for them however!
My littles are 6 and 3 and we enjoy sledding and bird watching during the winter months.
My children are 5 and 7. In winter we like to go for long walks and bring home feathers, shells, lichen-covered sticks, rocks, bones, leaves, seed pods, and anything else that sparks our interest, for our seasonal nature table.
My kids are 12, 8, and 5. We love going out on walks and sledding.
My kids are 6.5, 4 and almost 2. We love hiking at a nearby park and watching as the waterfalls there turn into ice. We also love downhill skiing as a family.
My kids are 9, 11, 13, and 16. We love going sledding, making snow forts, and building snowmen (when we get snow).
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I have tweeted, posted it on Facebook, and pinned it on Pinterest. Hoping that our family wins this giveaway. I have always wanted to try it with my children, but limited with our tight budget. This would truly be a blessing to our family.
My kids are 7, 5, 3, and 3 months. We love making snow ice cream, building snow castles, and walking/driving around to look at Christmas lights!
My kids are 8, 6, 4,2 and 1. They currently love digging in the dirt.
My children are 13,12,9,7,5 an 3. They build forts and play with bugs and lizards.
Thanks for this opportunity! My children are 12, 10 and 8. Our favorite winter activities are playing with our silly dog, tracking animals, fjording icy streams and sledding!
My son is 5 years old. We live in Southern California, so our winters are pretty mild. We love going to the beach to dig, dig, dig, collect things, and breathe in that wonderful ocean air! We are not officially homeschooling yet, but will start in the fall for kindergarten.
Hi! My Children are 2 and 7. Our favorite winter activities are hiking and looking for animal tracks, feeding and watching birds, getting bundled and playing in the backyard and we also love fishing! Thanks so much:)
My son is 12 years old. We do not have winter but my son has been dreaming of playing in the snow – snowboarding, throwing snow balls or just walking, taking in the sights and experiencing the cold weather outside. 🙂
Almost 2 and 4. We love walks, feeding our birds and making garden plans for the spring!
My sons are 5 and 1 year old. ???? Our favorite snowy activities are following aninals tracks in the snow, making bird feeders and snacks for animals and snow painting.
My girls are 10, 6 & 3… we love ALL things snow… especially sledding and making fun things with snow! Thank you so much!!!
My kiddos are 11, 10, 8, & 6. Our favorite winter time activity is traveling. 🙂 Over the holidays we travel north and love playing in the snow and then we head south to get some sun.
I have four children, my oldest is almost 9, my second is 7, my third is 5 and my youngest is 4. We live in the snow belt in Upsytate NY, and our favorite thing is to be in nature and learn, no matter what the weather! It’s part of living here! 🙂 We are frequent visitors at our closest Nature center called Beaver Lake where we love to track animals in winter and find the medicinal plants in the other seasons. We created a wormatorium our last school year for our compost, with only 15 worms and ended up with over a couple hundred, while the compost was still in the house! Our garden is our favorite place because we like to let nature grow up and forage it for any medicinal plants. We love to hike as a family and have traveled to almost every state park within three hours of home to visit waterfalls and see nature in it’s amazing beauty that the Lord has blessed us with! We enjoy creation as much as possible! 🙂
My kids are 4 and 2. Our favorite winter activity is collecting pine cones and hanging out with our pet ducks.
My kids are 11, 5, and 2. Our favorite thing is to go on walks – really during any season!
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My kids are 16, 12, and 11. Our favorite winter activity is sleding and building snowmen followed by hot chocolate with marshmallows.
My kiddos are 3 and 13. We like building igloos out of ice and snow.
I have 3 boys – ages 5,4, and 7 months. Our favorite winter activity in nature is sledding, followed by hot cocoa and marshmallows. We have not had a very “wintery” NJ this season! 70 degree days in February! ????
My son is 11. Our favorite winter activity is having a great big snowball fight, trying to have races in the snow, and making sure there is a lot of laughter 🙂
my boys are 12 and 13. our favorite winter activity has been keeping a weather log and watching our rain guage and daily trapsing through our woods watching the creeks and falls over flowing, with all the erosion etc and trees falling!!!
I have 7, 3, and 2 year olds. My 7 year old is doing OM second grade this year. We live in Texas so winter is our season to be outside without needing to worry about staying cool. We spend a lot of time exploring nearby parks on hikes.
My kids are (almost) 4 and 1.5. We live in the south so we don’t get much of a winter 🙁 but we still love to be outside and take walks and play all year long!
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my daughter is 9 and our fav think for our snowless winter is to go hiking and check out where birds nests are, when the tree leaves fall and map out the areas to see if the birds return to the same nests in the spring
My child is five years old and I’d love to share the wonders and joys of winter I enjoyed growing up. Alas, we live in a milder climate. This year the weather hasn’t even been cold enough to bundle up so we’ve continued our usual outdoors adventures of hiking, critter searching and general gallivanting.
My three are 2, 4, and 6. If it actually gets cold during winter here in the South, we might play for a little while in the snow. It’s been really mild this year, so we’ve been outside a lot. Tons of swinging from low hanging tree branches, digging in the dirt, and looking at wildlife here. <3
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My kids are 4 years, 7 years and 10 years. We love bird watching, playing in the snow (when and if it actually does snow), and staying active at the library to avoid the really cold days.
I’ve got a five and three year old here and we live in Canada so we’ve got real live winter. I love to go walking on the river near our house, it is less windblown and you never know what kind of animals you’ll run across.
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My children that are homeschooling are 15, 14, 11, and 7. We love to feed the birds and watch the deer and wild turkeys. We love walking through the woods and studying the things we find.
My kids are 13,6, and 2! Our favorite winter activities are sledding and making snow forts!
Our children are 7, 7, 5, and 4. We live in So Cal so we swim and bike ride right through the winter. This year we actually have rain which is good for jumping in puddles!
Our blessings are 16, 14, and 8 years old. We love mountain biking, kayaking, slate boarding, and basketball.
My children are 16,14,11,9,6. our favorite winter activities are playing in the snow and reading books or listening to books as a family.
My girls are 7 and 5. We love sledding, hiking, playing in our snow kitchen (mud in the winter) and journaling still.
My daughters are 10 and 12 and we like to continue our outdoor walks a noticing what is different, and beautiful in its own way, about this very different season.
My girls are 8, 4 and 7 months. Playing in the snow is definitely their favorite, but we’ve been in short supply the last few years. We also love taking walks by the river near our home to say hello to the geese and squirrels. We would love to win this curriculum!
My kids are 5, 2, and one on the way. Our favorite winter activity is to create feeders for different animals and watch them gather around the feeders. We also enjoy watching the trees for the first sign of buds.
Our family has three children. They are 15, 11, and 9. In the winter we like to slide down the snow covered hills, watch the birds at our bird feeder, hike around our property looking for wildlife and their tracks, and stay warm by our wood stoves.
My children are 7.5 (because the half is essential!) & 4. We ice skate all year round but love to go sledding when we can.
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My kids are 11, 10, 8, 5, 3, and 1. Our favorite winter nature activity is bird watching and identifying.
My kids are 4 & 1. We live in Southern California, so our ‘winter’ is more like a fall-like rainy season. Our favorite activities are going on rain walks in our boots and splashing in puddles. Afterwards we drink ‘rainy-day lattes’ (warm milk with honey and cinnamon).
My kids are 6 and 7. We love lots of winter activities like skiing skating sledding. I think the favorite is skiing
My kids are 10, 7, 4, and 2. They love to build snow forts.
My kids are 6 and 1. Our favorite winter activity is building snow forts when we get snow! Shared on FB 🙂
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Kids are 11,9,8,4 and 2 years old. Our favorite winter activity is downhill skiing. The oldest 3 kids are on a slalom ski team which they love to do together!
My sons are 13, 7, and 3. We like taking walks and playing in the mud during winter.
We don’t have winter but our 7 year old would love to (and will one day) experience winter with snow to build a snowman, try sledding or snowboarding etc.
In Texas for the 3 hours we have winter we love to bounce on the trampoline with snow on it. My kids are 8 & 11.
We have three girls, ages 7, 4, and 1. This winter has been unseasonably warm, but when it does snow, we love to sled until we’re exhausted and then drink hot cocoa. Thank you for this opportunity; I’d love to try Oak Meadow!
My kids are 5 years and 2 years old. We love skiing and watching the birds at our bird feeder!
My kids are 6,4, and 2. Our favorite winter activities are building snow forts, sledding, and having a fire out in the cold!
My boys are 4 and 5 1/2. In the winter, we like to take walks in the rain and jump in puddles. We also like to collect dried leaves and compare size, shape, color. My older son will bring home leaves from his trips to the park just for me. I have a dead leaf collection because his sweet heart thinks of me and wants to bring me “surprises”.
The kids are 9 and 7 and our favorite winter activity is to be at the inside water park and watch the snow falling outside. We do love sledding, building forts but there is something magical about swimming and watching the snow at the same time:)
Our children are 2, 6, 8, 20 & 22 ! The 2 older ones are grown & married ;0)
The littles & I love hiking on our land & doing our own version of Forest School! Sometimes families from our homeschool group join us & we build forts or have cookouts….my favorite is listening to the amazing silence after a big snow & watching the shadows of the trees on the snow.
My children are 3 and 6, and we live in the Southeast. Our favorite winter activity is going to see the manatees at the natural springs.
My children are 5 and 7, and we love sledding and building snow forts.
My daughter is 17. We enjoy playing with the dogs and going for long walks together.
My kids are 9 and 6; I always wanted to try Oak Meadow! Our favorite winter activity is, well we can’t choose between sledding and ice skating, but we LOVE to go look at the year’s ice the Lake Michigan has made each year! That’s probably our favorite!
My children are 7, 4 and 2. We love sledding, walking in the woods and identifying the winter unique birds that come to our feeder.
My kids are 13 and 9 and we love sledding in the winter, but without much snow this year, we’re growing plants inside and observing.
My kids are 7, 5, 3, and 1. In the winter, we love to watch the birds at our feeders and sketch, paint, and label them. On nice days we trek outside and build snow forts. We also like making maple snow candy like in Little House on the Prairie.
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4 and 6, and we love to make snow angels and look for animal tracks on thew snow.
My children are 9, 5, and 1. We love skating and sledding, and feeding and watching the birds.
4 and 5. We love making snow angels and building igloos if we have enough snow. If not, we love hiking to our creek and in the fields.
Nine and 12, and hiking through the snow (or this winter in the mud!).
7 years old. Explore the yard for bugs, plants and rocks.
My boys are 6 and 4. We love going on nature hikes in the snow(we live in Canada near the mountains so we have lots of it!) and exploring the frozen waterfalls and caves that we find.
Mine are 3, 6, & 9. We adore exploring together, especially climbing trees ???? in winter (we live in a mild climate!).
My children are 8, 5, and 4 months. In winter we like to go for walks while the snow is falling.
My Kids are 2 and 7 and we LOVE to build shelters in the snow in our back woods. We’ve done it three times this year!
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9,7, and 4 years. Skiing, hiking!!
My son is 8! We love to make different bird feeders for the winter birds and go on nature walks!
My boys are 3 and 1 and we like to catch snowflakes on our gloves to see how each one is unique. Then we go inside and make paper snowflakes to hang on the wall.
My son is 4 we will be starting kindergarten! I’ve been shopping for a curriculum but would love to win! Our favorite winter activity is prayig for snow! Sharing on Facebook!
my kids are 11 9 7 5 and 2. we love hiking in wnter and exploring animal tracks in the snow.
Our children are 9 and 14. We are currently researching curriculum to use to pull ours out of public school. Our favorite winter activity is sledding and building snowmen, although we have not had that opportunity this year!!!
My children are 7, 7, 5, and 2. We like to make snow angels, climb trees, and then make hot chocolate.
My kids are 3 & 6. Our favorite winter activity is nature journaling while hiking and playing at the park. We live in SC, so it hasn’t exactly felt like winter. I shared the give away on FB. Good luck to everyone!
I have an 11 and a 9 year old. We always enjoy noticing the “changing of the guard” as some bird species leave for the winter and others arrive. New songs soundtrack the browner landscape and pecking orders at the bird feeder are re-negotiated.
I look at Oak Meadow every year but haven’t taken the leap because we have many homeschool materials that we have collected over twenty years of homeschooling and I can’t really afford to try something new. My children still at home are 17, 15, 13, 10, 9, 6, and 4. I would definitely want eighth grade for my artistic 13 year old.
Winter is for reading and walks.
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My kids are 8, 3, and 1. Sledding in the backyard and painting the snow with colored water in condiment bottles are some of our favorite winter activities.
My kids are 10 and 7. Our favourite activity is going skating at the nearby rink, when the bigger kids aren’t playing hockey. I think our second favourite is sliding down the big hill in town when we can get out there with all their friends!
Hi! Our kids are 8, 6, 3, 1.5, and one still cooking ????. Living in TX, our winter is our favourite time to be outside! We love to go exploring out in the pastures, and observe the cows almost every day.
My kids are 5, 2 and 4 months. In the winter we like going outside for scavenger hunts, looking for animal tracks, playing in the snow and building “houses” with little bits of nature.
My kiddos are 14, 11, 9, 4, and 2. We live in Northern CA and love to explore the coast and the redwood forests together. We’ve actually spent a great deal of time this year exploring weather lore and discussing barometers (we’ve had quite a crazy, wet season!).
My kids are 5 & 8. Our favorite thing to do is to play in the snow in the winter and then come inside and make hot cocoa!
Six and eight are their ages. Our favorite winter nature activity is being outside and playing with bikes, scooters, etc. No snow here!
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Our kids are 7,4 &3. Favorite outside activity is snow,anyting in the snow if we are fortunate to see flakes ever;). But since that’s rare, we like finding bugs and leaves to investigate.
My daughter is 10. Her name is Macey and she loves to be outside in the winter. We like to go for long walks, play in the snow, sledding at The Knoll, and snowboarding. Thanks for the chance to win! Also shared on FB.
My girls are 9, 6, and 15 months. Winter in Oklahoma can look like many things. From 3 feet of snow to the 75* temperatures we had today, it never ceases to keep us on our toes. We LOVE bird watching in the winter as we set up feeders just outside our windows to keep our feathered friends happy and well fed, as well as keeping our bird watching enthusiasts happy.
I have a newly turned 6 year old and a 3 year old. My daughter is currently completing first grade curriculum and my son is working on pre-school work. We live in Texas so winter is the perfect time to go for scavenger walks and find certain colored objects, letters, numbers, etc.
My boys are 3 and 7 and they love to throw snow in any shape or form!
My kids are 5 and 1 and we love to go sledding.
My children are 19 yo & 17 yo young ladies and an 8 yo son. My son loves ICE! We love reading together by the fireplace!
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My kids are 4.5 and 1.5. Our favorite nature-based winter activity is breaking icicles off plants and eating them! Something we can all enjoy equally. Bonus: great for teething.
My kids are 7, 6, 4, almost 3, and almost 1! We love to toboggan down our little hill on snowy days in winter.
I have three—7, 9 and 3. During winter my husband loves to take my kids skiing/snowboarding. My kids are big fans of the snow.
My children are 3.5yo and 6yo. We are summer all year round at where we are. Occasionally we have cooling weathers and loads of rain. The closest we get to imagine it is snowing is when the flowers and yellow leaves get blown off the trees. We like to cycle in a drizzle, step in puddles after a down pour and sometimes just head out for a nature walk in rain.
My children are 7,6,4,1, and new born. They really enjoy snow play when we have snow, but when the weather is nice they like to build “forts” in the woods while there are still no bugs out to bite them! 🙂 I have looked at OM for years and have just not had the budget, would love to get the chance to try it out!
My son is 10 and we live in Hawai`i. In the winter months the Humpback Whales are here . Our favorite activity is to find a spot at the end of our yard which is a 200ft cliff ,set up chairs and take notes on the pods we see and what kind of activity they are engaging in and if they are close enough take photos of different pods .
My kids are 9 and 12. We live in a relatively mild climate, so one of our favorite winter nature activities is taking nature walks and seeing how our surroundings are different during wet and dry seasons.
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My children are ages 5 & 9. My daughter loves ice skating 🙂
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My kids are 14, 12, 11, 8 and 3. Our favorite thing to do in the winter is travel somewhere warm. Around February we all get sick of the gloomy sky and no sunshine here in North Idaho.
My kids are ages: 7, 4,2 and one on the way! We live in Alaska and do much outside it’s hard to pick one! We love to harvest seaweed and monitor all the sea creatures and fish, we love to go clam digging and watch what sea creatures are in the mud, we love to monitor seals and sea otters all year round, we love to keep track of the migratory birds we see come into our community! We live for outdoors!
Our kids are 10 and 8. Their favorite winter activity is building snow quinzees, with lots of tunnels, in the mountains of Vancouver, Canada.
My kids are both 3.5. We love going on hikes and long walks. Since they are so little we mostly play with words and numbers, look for animals, try and find something from every color of the rainbow and work out brains by working out bodies. Love the sound of oak medow.
My kids are 4 and 2 (with another on the way in August). We have enjoyed spending time in the yard and experiencing all of the seasonal changes. This winter has brought us A LOT of snow, rain, and MUD to enjoy!
My kids are 13 & 16. Building snow forts & going for nature hikes are our favorite winter activities. Unfortunately, snow has been sparse this winter in MI. 🙁
My kids are 13 & 16. Building snow forts & going for nature hikes are our favorite winter activities. Unfortunately, snow has been sparse this winter in MI. 🙁
Hi, My kids are 3 and 5, looking forward to starting more structured learning in the fall season. In winter we definitely enjoy the snow and the icicles, and sliding down the slopes with the sleds. now we are enjoying the sun outside and the possibility to take longer walks.
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My heart is eleven. In the winter we love kicksledding with our two dog sled team when we aren’t building snow forts .
My kids are 15, 11, 6, 4 and 1. Our favorite winter activity in alaska is sledding! Although we also love watching wildlife in our backyard, especially when we see a moose 🙂
My kids are 12 , 10, 8, and 5. I like snowshoeing but don’t do it much. Mostly I just put my hand out of the van window to get the mail and that’s my outdoor time. Hahaha
My children arw 6 and 9. Our most favorite winter time nature based activity is to read tons of books of all the changes that animals and plants go thru in nature and then go outside to see and experience them. From all the animals that hibernate, to the changing of the trees and plants to the awareness of the weather. We enjoy experiencing and appreciating it all.
My kids are nine and eleven. We have been in a drought for years. This winter we are able to go for walks to view lakes and streams that have been completely dry for ages. My kids are having fun playing in puddles and are starting to make plans about catching tadpoles and praying it won’t dry up by summer.
My children are 11 and 13. In the winter we love skiing together !
My children are 10 and 13. We live in the south so our winter has been very mild. We love to go on nature walks around our farm!
I have 3 boys and 1 girl ages 13,12,8 and 4! Winter is are least favorite season but we do love making snow ice cream and building cool things out of snow and watching for the first signs of spring!
My kids are 5, 2 and 6 months and in the winter they like to play outside when there is snow. Their favorite is to go down the slide on our playground into the snow.
My children are 12, 10, 8 and 4. We love to just be outside in the snow. But this week it has been in the 60s in February! So we have been taking nature walks.
My kids are 8, 7, 4, and 2. We live in the south, so hiking is one of our favorite winter activities – we even played barefoot in a creek this week!
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My children ages 9 and 6, and I live near the beach so we love to take winter strolls and collect anything that may have been washed up by the ocean. Sometimes we can see whales or seals on our walks. We also like to play in the snow, this year we built an igloo.
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2 children ages 8 and 12. We live on the North Shore of Lake Superior and love all that winter affords us. Probably our favorite nature activity of all is finding, tracking, and interpreting animal tracks. It’s always a surprise and delight to find fresh tracks, even those tracks of animals we see daily (such as deer). Learning to differentiate the tracks by male, female, where they are going, what they are doing, who they are following is a mystery book come to life! Our biggest surprises this winter were mink in our backyard and twice (once in Jan and once in Feb) bear tracks! It’s ordinarily much too early for the latter to be out and about!
My children are 3 and 1. We love to go sledding in our front yard.
My children are 15, 11, 9, 7 and 4. We live in Florida, so we love to set up hammocks in the yard, play outside (it’s finally not HOT all the time), go to the beach and check out tidepools and nature there.
My kids are 9, 6, and 3. We all love just hanging in our backyard. Building snow forts, sledding, making snowmen. Best of all right now, tapping our maple trees for maple syrup.
My girls are 10 and 11 and they refuse to go outside in winter unless there’s snow on the ground. I would love a nature-based curriculum to help find new ways to encourage them outside!
My kids are 6 and 8. Its been a very warm winter here in Georgia so they have been playing in the creek in their way waders all winter.
My kids are 9 mo, 2,5 and 9. Our favorite winter activity is making things with snow. Like ice cream or snow cones.
My kids are 9, 7, and 2. We usually love building things in the snow, but since we have had almost no snow this year we’ve been just enjoying the warmer weather outside with imaginative play and nature study.
I have a 5 year old boy loves to learn through play and be outdoors.
My kids are 13, 10 and 3. We live in Poland, so our favorite winter activity is skiing and sledding.
My kids are 4 and 7mo. We’ve already started homeschooling with my 4-yo since he wants to learn. Our favorite winter activity here in Georgia is snow tubing!
My kids are 8 and 4. Our favorite winter based activity is nature walks to explore how things change with different seasons and look for animal tracks or signs of new life beginning.
My kids are 10 and 6. Our favorite winter time nature activity is playing in the snow and observing how animal behaviors change in the winter.
My dozen (ages 2-16) collect and paint or yarn wrap sticks to create a winter table centerpiece.
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Hi all! Our little pixie is five (just a couple months shy of turning six), and she’s become a bird lover this winter! All things birds. We like to hike, make homemade birdseed ornaments to hang from our trees, count birds, chart the types and when we see them, and sometimes lie in front of the windows to watch and sketch birds. I have hundreds of sketches that our daughter has spent endless hours sketching, coloring and providing a funny backstory for. This season has been good to us!
My kids are 5 and 2. Our favorite winter activity is hiking (especially in the snow) and looking for animal tracks.
My son is 9 and our favorite nature based play is either a trip to the beach with dip net or seine net or a hike in the woods. When hiking we never cover much ground but we see so much that if not for him we would have looked past!
My children are 5 and 13. We love to snow mobile and hike through the woods in michigan. We even have campfires in the snow and occasionally kayak/canoe in the winter.
My kids are 6.5 and 3.5, and our favorites winter-based activities are probably nature walks followed by hot chocolate and cuddles.
I have a three year old and one on the way 🙂 We live in SW Pennsylvania where the hills are perfect for sled riding. We have snowball fights, sled ride, make snow angels and we love to stay inside out of the cold and read, too. I’m interested in this curriculum for the early years!
My kids are 8, 5 and 2 and we live in Orlando, FL, so our favorite winter activity is visiting the theme parks while it is the off season for most people. We rarely get cold weather, so our winters are the time to be outside and enjoy the sunshine before it gets super hot! I marvel at how grateful I am everyday to live where we do.
My kids are 2,4,6 and our favorite winter activity is going outside no matter the weather and looking for animal tracks and identifying the animals!
Kids are 12, 8, and 6. Their favorite winter activity would probably be taking a nature hike around one of the lakes, looking for tracks and signs of animals.
Our children are 6 and 7. In the winter time we love to stomp through the leaf piles, when gift it snows we love to build little snowmen and slide down the hill behind our house, but one of our all time favorite things to do is curl up in front of our fireplace with hotchocolate and read books (right now we are reading the Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton)
My kids are 5 & 2 and one in the making 🙂
Our favorite winter activities are bon fires and camping. We live in Florida and it is the best time of year for it here!
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I’m new to homeschool and have heard about this curriculum. I’d really love to win! I have a 6 & 2 yr old. So I’d need the k-3rd grade.
6, almost 4, and almost 1! My kids love to sled (or at least they think they do) but we haven’t had enough snow in our part of Oklahoma for sliding in a long time!
10, 8, and 5. Skiing together.
My kids are 6, 4, and 1. We’re in Texas so we don’t really have winter, but when it’s cold enough we enjoy a fire in the fireplace.
My son is 7. We love to go sledding on the rare occasion we have snow here in NC!
My kids are 12, 10, 8, 5, and almost 2. Winter here in Oregon is generally mild to allow for hiking and nature walks. This winter, however, we’ve received plenty of snow and ice, so it’s been fun exploring something that is new and rare to us! Thank you for the offer….we love Oak Meadow!
My kids are 10, 8, and 5. Their favorite outdoor winter activity is probably building forts and sledding.
My children are 6, 10, 14, and 22. We love to snuggle and read in the winter, celebrate many birthdays, have friends over for our yearly Winter Solstice Celebration, NOT leave the house as much lol, eat warm soups, etc…:)
This sounds amazing! I struggle with how to employ the outdoors in our studies although we play outside often! My kids are 8, 8, & 7. Our favorite outdoor activity is exploring a small drainage area from our pond – like a little river with cool rocks, fish and birds.
I have three boys who are 13, 11, and 5. Playing in the snow is their absolutely favorite winter activity, but since we haven’t had much of it the past couple years, winter hikes have been our choice.
Our little guy is 6. Our favorite activity is to escape to Florida for the winter and enjoy the beach!
My sons are 9 and 6. We have snow…lots of snow…in the winter. We also have a lot of cold days here in the Canadian Prairies. One of our favourite winter activities, to do as a family, is cross country ski. It gets us outside when it is so cold we might not otherwise do so. We never know what we will see on the trails — from deer, rabbits and winter birds during the day to foxes, owls and starry skies at night.
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My kids are 9 & 5. We Love to play in the snow off the nature trail by the teepee we built. Good for all kinds of imaginary play.
My sons are 8 and 3. We love to explore the forests of Michigan and look of frogs, bugs and birds. Our favorite thing is to discover new trails which is really easy here in Michigan!
My kids are 6 and 7. We love to read books!
My kiddos are 16, 10, 8, 6, and 3. Our favorite winter nature activity is to hike in the snow and look for animal tracks.
My children still at home are 9 and 16. We love to snowshoe in the winter, build igloos, shoot giant snowball targets with bows & arrows, and explore the frozen lake looking for otter tracks.
My daughter is 9. We love to spend time outdoors, unfortunately we haven’t had much wintry weather this year, it’s been so warm!! Snow is our favorite, but we almost never get any!
I have four kids that I homeschool ages 2,6,8,12!We live in the Southwest and our favorite winter activities are bike riding and playing at the park
I have four daughters, 11, 9, 6, and almost 3. We haven’t done a lot beyond just simply playing outside in the wintertime. Neither my husband or I have been big into winter sport activities. This year we’ve been sick a lot so we haven’t been able to be outside as much as we have wanted.
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My kids are 11, 6, and 2.5! We love playing in the snow, snowshoeing and skiing as a family. We have been homeschooling all along 🙂
My children are 6, 4 and 1. We enjoy sledding the most right now, knocking down icicles and building snow caves!
My daughters are 13, 12 and 8. We like to go hiking. It’s been 70 and 80 degrees here lately!
My kids are 7, 5 (almost 8 and 6), 3 and 1. We are an outdoor family ( I write over at talesofamountainmama.com) and this looks AWESOME!!!! While we are outside all the time, we love to hike and look for animal tracks and scat (perks to living in Yellowstone ;))
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My kids are 6 & 8 and we love to ski!
Winter is one of our favorite seasons! My 16,12,7 and 5 year old’s favorite wintertime activities are baking gingerbread with lemon sauce, trying new soup recipes, turning our Christmas tree into a feeder for all of the wildlife in our yard, celebrating our winter birthdays and playing in the snow. Thank you!
My kids are….23,23,21,18,14,12,8,6,and 3. To be honest…one of our favorite winter nature based activity is to shovel snow. With that snow, we build forts for competitive snowball fights, and build creative snowmen! and create fortresses for creative play and hope it lasts long enough to use them for awhile.
My kids are 5, 9 and 12. Our favorite winter activity is snowshoeing.
My kids are 6, 4, and almost 2 and we love taking nature walks! Thanks for sharing about Oak Meadow!
My kid is almost 6. We don’t get much winter here but we do talk about the way animals behave throughout the different seasons . We also watch what happens to the plant life around us and particularly in our garden.
Hi! I have a 4 yo and a 7 yo. Our newest favorite Winter activity is family trips to the Canaveral National Seashore to collect sea beans, play in the sand and waves, and pick up bags of litter without worrying about Summer sunburns.
My kids are 4 1/2 yrs old and 23 months old. Our favorite winter time activity has been to play with snow but since moving to Florida, we do lots of nature walks.
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My children are 10 and 11 and our favorite winter time activity is horse drawn sledding.
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My children are 15,13,10,8,7,6,and 4. Our favorite winter activity is hiking! Winter in Florida is beautiful
My kids are 2, 4, and 6! Our favorite nature based winter activity is walking and/or snowshoeing in the woods near our home and looking for animal tracks in the snow.
Hello! My kids are 5, 4 and 2. Our favorite winter activity is camping! It’s our favorite camping season in Florida because the evenings are cool, and the mosquitoes aren’t so prevalent. ☺
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My son is 10 and we love to sked, tin and snoweshoe!
We are new to homeschooling and love this opportunity. So thanks!
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My son will be 9 very soon and my daughter is 6. We love playing in the snow and looking for tracks of various animals. They also love watching any animals that happen by.
My kiddos are 7,9,11 and in winter we love to rug up and get a hot chocolate at the farmer’s market 🙂
My son is 4.5, and our favorite thing to do in the Florida “winter” is to wander around all the playgrounds in our area, many of which have bits of “jungle” for us to adventure through.
Age 6. And sledding or looking for animals, tracks, etc.
My kids are 7, 5,and 2. In the winter we have mild weather but sometimes it gets cold. Our favorite thing to do is play in the woods behind our house.
My kids are 4-14, and we live in the southeast so we’ve enjoyed an atypically warm winter! This year we’ve been enjoying warmer nights to look up at the winter constellations.
My kids are 6, 3, and 1. In the Winter, we like to build a fire and then cook dinner over it.
My daughter is in 6th grade and we are considering going the home school route next year. In the winter we love to cuddle and watch movies or experiment with cooking stews and soups.
We started using Oak Meadow this year (our first year of homeschooling) and we absolutely love it!! It would be amazing to win this ☺ Thanks for the opportunity!
My kids are 4 & 1 and we love to go on walks in the snow!
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My kids are 5 & 8, and we love climbing trees and sledding! Hopefully that nature and not just outdoorsy!
The punks are between 5 and 11. We love sledding and I have one who lives to dig tunnels when we have a big pile of snow. Snow shoeing and X-Country skiing would be fun, but we don’t have equipment for all of us to use at once.
My kids are 19, 15, 7 and 2-months. We love to build snowmen and go sledding. After a morning in the snow we enjoy baking cookies, drinking cocoa and playing board games by the fireplace.
My kids are 6 and 10. Our favorite things to do outside is going on nature walks and climbing trees!!
My boys are (almost 3) and 5. Our favourite winter activity is playing at the beach! Here in Vancouver (Canada) the beaches almost completely empty out making it the perfect time to explore with wild kids and no one to give us dirty looks for blocking their sun/being too loud/etc.
My kids are 9,8,6, and 3. We love to look at animal tracks after a fresh snowfall and try to figure out what they are from.
My kids are 14, 12, 10, and 7. Our favorite winter nature activity would be sitting around the fire in the fire pit. It is a lovely thing to do in winter.
My kids are 11, 8, 6, 5 and 18mths and because we live in Queensland Australia our favourite winter activity is being outdoors in nature as much as possible as its lovely then and not too hot!
Well my son is slowly discovering his admiration of the great outdoors, which is big because he doesn’t like bugs of any sort. He’s 8 and has always been afraid of them. Right now we are having our last day of a Spring tease in Illinois and he’s been enjoying being outside. ????
My daughters are 8, 6 and almost 2 and the two older ones loves to go out in the fresh snow to find all sorts of animal tracks. Whenever thats done the snow can be ‘messed up’ by lots of sledding!
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My kids are 17, 14, 11 & 1! Our favorite winter nature-based activity to do together is sledding.
I have three girls, ages 6,5 and 8 mos. Our favorite winter activity this year was making ice lanterns.
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My daughter is 7. Our favorite winter nature based activity to do together is exploring outdoors and building fairy houses. Winter in South Texas is time to be outdoors as much as possible and to savor the lovely cool weather. Thank you for the opportunity to enter for a chance to win!
I have a 7, 6, 3 and 1 year old. We live in Florida so we are still playing outside in the garden hose this winter. ???? But we did take the kids to see snow for the first time in January!
I have an 8, 5 and 8 month old. We live in the tropics so we are outside enjoying the warmth until it gets hot again. Planning a move to VA, so we plan to have a new adventure of winter fun!!
My boys are 11 and 2. We LOVE to follow animal tracks in the snow.
My kids are 4, 7, 9, 12, and 15. We love hiking and sledding during the winter.
When it’s too cold outside my 8 year old and I love to pull out our sewing machines and create somethin.
The kiddos are 15 13 10 8 6 4 2 & 1
We live in the city and enjoy nature center hopping in the winter. We have 3 near us that always have brilliant activities. We also have the most wonderful parks, many with hiking. With the warm weather this year, we’ve been able to do more than ever. Around the house, this time each year, we prepare our bird feeders, weave our own nests (for the birds to pick apart and use) and replace dead butterfly plants.
My kids are 4, 21 months, and 4 months! Our favorite outdoor winter activity is playing in the snow (although we sure haven’t had much snow this winter!). Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome giveaway!!
My children are 4.5, 20 months and 4 months. Our favorite winter activity is to do snowball fights and make snowmen!
My children are 13 & 9, We live in Southern Arizona so we have pretty mild winters so we like just being outside since summers are well over 100 degrees.
My children are 8 and 11. They love playing in the snow, and we also enjoy visiting our favorite parks in all seasons. Thanks for the opportunity!
My children are 9 and 11. We love taking walks on the beach in the winter (we live in Florida). We find beautiful treasures every time we go.
My kids are 15 and 13. We live in S. Calif so no snow for us in the winter. We do enjoy skating at the ice rink or going out to watch hockey games.
My children are 5 and 1. We really enjoy playing outside most days in the winter, because my son has allergies during the warmer months, so we aren’t outside as often then.
My children are 7 and 9. We love to take walks in the woods and fields on our farm, collect dead or down items and take pictures of other things he to identify later.
My 2 and 7 year olds love looking for birds and other critters on cold days just to see who’s willing to be out.
My 5 and 8 year olds like talking about Jack Frost. Since we live in FL, they only dream of snow.
I hope I’m on time for the giveaway. My son is 5 years old and our favorite winter activity is to go for a walk in a park on the early afternoon. The sun is especially warm at that time and we can walk and talk a lot about what is around us!!!
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My children are 7 and 4 and we enjoy doin Amy and everything outside. Most days they can be found out back on their swing set fort, rain or shine.
My children are 7 & 11. We love to hit the beach during the winter months. We always check how cold the water feels on our toes, look for shells, play in the sand while looking for critters, and enjoy the off-season from the crowds.
My kids are 7, 4, 2 and 7 months….we are a homeschooling expat family (yay for being open to international families!)….Our favorite winter activity is either hiking in the woods or strawberry picking in a local greenhouse (winter is strawberry season in Korea!).
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My children are 17, 15, 12, and 5. In the winter, we love watching the wildlife outside and going for walks in the woods!
My kids are 4 & 2. We like to explore snowflakes in the winter.
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Our children are 24, 20 & 7 and praying for another soon. We have decided to homeschool our 7 year old with Autism so he enjoys school and doesn’t feel like he is always in trouble. He is the sweetest little man and loves to collect rocks and winter doesn’t stop him. We find ourselves digging in the snow for rocks and whatever else he may find under the cold layers. We are praying for more snow next year to keep us even busier.
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Our sons are ages seven and nine. I’d love to use this curriculum with my youngest child.
Our favorite activity in the winter to do together outdoors: I’m fairly certain both of my boys would say snowball fights and sledding! I would say snowshoeing and skiing!
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My children are ages 12, 9, 6, and 2. During winter months we enjoy creative play outdoors, providing food for birds so we can observe the birds, and reading.
my children are 7 and 4 during winter we like to knit winter hats, scarves and headbands, it doesn’t get that much cold this side of the world though.
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