When raising my three children I discovered the Montessori Method of teaching where children can learn at their own pace using their innate curiosity to explore the world around them. Many years later, I volunteered & participated in the Terwilliger Nature Guide Program in San Rafael, 1999, which they still do & I highly recommend. It provided perfect training for me when I went to Belize in 2001 to work with the Belize Audubon Society building an educational exhibit at Crooked Tree Bird Sanuaury. When I returned, I went to our local WildCare center & began foster-caring baby hummingbirds that became a journey in itself.
It’s important that all of us see & think beyond what we’re familiar with. One way of accomplishing this is by being in nature & recording our experiences with words & drawing. To learn fun ways to teach this to children I enrolled in the Educational Workshops for Teachers at Yosemite taught by in John Laws & David Lukas which included some incredible hikes & nature journaling. They are extraordinary teachers & artists. Though I personally work more abstractly with my own images, I feel it’s imperative that children begin drawing using a method that teaches accurate observation, so I try to pass-on what they taught me about drawing & working in the field. Please click on the names to visit their websites to learn more about what they do.
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Nature Journaling in Ft Bidwell.
Check out this great video. I visited Daraja in Kenya, the first week they opened & took the girls to a nearby Nature Preserve to hike, draw & write about their experience viewing wildlife.. The girls sang this song in the Van on our way back from our adventure. The girls in this video are in music class & are the girls that I worked with. Best school in Kenya, Daraja Academy for Teenage Girls!
"Life Is But A Dream" The video I took in the van of the girls singing. FUN!
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