Books & Resources
November Nature Study {with book recommendations and free printables}
It’s here!  The Handbook of Nature Study Newsletter for November came out today!  It’s packed with lots of great tips and resources, including an article by yours truly. 🙂 The entire newsletter is all about using wonderful nature books to enhance your family’s nature study.  (Sound familiar?)  As usual, wonderful (free!) nature printables are included.
4 More Favorite Books for Fall
Have you checked out our list of Favorite Picture Books for Fall? It’s got thirteen of our favorite fall titles to help you celebrate the natural bounty of the season–leaves, apples and more–with your favorite youngsters. We love, love, love fall here at the Yankee Homestead, and I’m always on the lookout for great new…
Exploring Nature with Kids: Take-Along Guides
Have you seen this series of nature guides for kids? Â We absolutely love them at our house. These Take-Along Guides are not incredibly comprehensive, but they’re just right for young, budding naturalists. Â They’re a bit too large to tote along on nature explorations (we love these pocket guides for that), but we use them often…
5 Best Things About Used Books
Old, used books are one of my very favorite things in life. Â Seriously. Â I could get lost for hours in a used book shop. Â In fact, I hope do just that on our Anniversary Trip to London–I’m really hoping to score some great old English titles. What’s so great about old books? Well, I’m…
Changing of the Guards: Our Rotating Book Display
Well, it’s a new month and almost a new season. Â We’ve also got a birthday in a few days. Â [Older Brother will be 7–I can hardly believe it!] At the Yankee Homestead, all of this adds up to: A New Book Display. Â Several new book displays, actually.
Year Round Nature Activity for Kids: Raising Butterflies
Raising butterflies is a perfect nature activity for young children–it’s fairly easy to do, and gives everyone a firsthand look at a butterfly’s life cycle. Reading excellent books on the topic makes the experience even more delightful. Want to give it a shot? Read on for our favorite butterfly-raising resources.
My Top 6 Thyroid Resources
Several readers and friends have asked recently, so I thought I’d share my top 6 thyroid resources that have been most helpful to me in understanding hypothyroidism. [Note: While I personally deal with HYPO-thyroidism, many of these resources will also apply to HYPER-thyroidism, or will correspond to resources on that topic.]
Family Resource: My Quotable Kid
“I may not be able to snap or whistle, but I’m a fierce fighter.” Older Brother uttered these words one day last December while working on his Nature Calendar. I would have absolutely no recollection of that hilarious statement, had I not recorded it in this fun little journal gifted to me by a friend.…
3 More Favorite Children’s Books for Summer
Since I compiled our list of 9 Favorite Children’s Books for Summer, we‘ve discovered a few new favorites. I highly recommend each of the following three titles. Enjoy!
Our New Favorite Resource for Family Devotionals
 After several failed attempts at establishing a Sunday Night Family Devotional Time, we’ve switched tactics. We’ve used several resources which we really liked, but were either too time-intensive and felt sort of contrived, or just lasted too long for Little Brother. It kept ending in frustration–for Older Brother, who truly was engaged but did not…