Winter Time at the Nature Center!
Nature Time, our signature environmental education curriculum, starts early and doesn’t wait for spring. This January, Neighborhood House’s Penquins (Early Childhood Teachers Myeesha & Amelia, ages 3-4) visited NH’s 93-acre Nature Center for some winter hiking and exploration. Nature Educator Niki Espy led the kids on a lively search for signs of animal life in the snow-covered woods and meadows. Attentive hikers found footprints – and a few other intriguing traces - of deer, squirrel, and fox. There was time for bird watching too, as kids spotted a few bald eagles on the ride out to Ashippun, and had lively conversations with a nuthatch or two. Nature Center field trips throughout the year give kids rich hands-on experience in the natural world, and are supplemented with classroom lessons that focus on school readiness.
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Click on our new Calendar page on the top navigation bar for our listing of upcoming Family Fun events for Spring 2013.
For events specific to your child’s classroom, contact your child’s teacher or Phan Sanford, psanford@nh-milw.org.