Never be within doors
June 2024
SUN
30
Milkweed is the only
plant monarchs lay their
eggs, as it’s the only food
baby caterpillars will eat.
2 Tour your yard on 3 4 House Finches are
hands and knees to see
what the ants are
doing.
9 10Walk five feet out
Look for weeds
growing in pavement
cracks.
16 17
Find some rocks to
inspect. Try to find
out what type of rock
it is.
23 24
The most red soil is in
hot climates. Oxygen
combines with the soil’s
iron to create deep red
coloration.
when you can rightly be without.
Charlotte Mason
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 June Weather
Folklore
Milkweed
A wet June makes a dry
Zebra Finch September.
&
Calm weather in June
sets corn in tune.
5Write your own nature 6 7 Nature Journal
8 Catnip
some of the strictest Can you Free Choice. Find Nepeta cataria
Look for a wetland poem in your nature
vegetarians in the find a something outside to Catnip has been used
in your area to visit. notebook.
avian world. moth or draw in your nature for generations in
Wetlands are full of PS If your child does write
Approximately 97% of a poem, email it to me. I butterfly journal. European folk
wildlife to observe.
their diet comprises will publish it on our outside? *Remember to include medicine for its
seeds, nuts, and fruit. Facebook page ~ Jenny the date. calming abilities.
11 12 Visit a 13 14 Nature Journal 15
woodland Go on a bug hunt
your front door. Set a for
area
timer for five minutes. Sit outside and listen. Find an animal habitat
to observe the beetles. Coleoptera
Draw something in What do you hear? to draw or paint in
forest floor in
your nature notebook your nature journal.
Record the weather the spring
that you find.
in your journal today. season.
The clear skies in
18 19 Frog or Toad?
20 Summer Solstice 21 Nature Journal 22 June Full Moon
Blackberries belong Free Choice. Find
summer offer the The Strawberry Moon
to the rose family. something outside to
perfect time to Most toads have
bumpy, dry skin and draw in your nature
look at stars!
shorter legs. Frogs are journal.
What do you see
usually slimy, smooth, *Remember to include
tonight?
and have long legs. the date.
25 26 27 28 29Chickens have a
By weight, spider silk Watch the sunset Most of the stars Draw or paint the
Find a flower to draw in great memory and can
is strong than steel. today. you see in the night sunset in your nature
your nature notebook. recognize over 100
sky are bigger and journal. faces.
brighter than the *Remember to include
sun. the date.