from all those photo-graphs and stories of children frolicking in the snow and -20 weather, we here at Farm School like winter. In fact, we love it!
We also like the winter solstice, with the idea that more daylight is on the way (hurray!), and two of our favorite books to read on the first official day of winter (though we've been having unofficial winter fun for more than a month now) are
Happy Winter by Karen Gundersheimer, which is out of print but worth tracking down. I've written about it before here and here; and
I Like Winter by Lois Lenski. Grandpapa bought this tiny book for Davy a number of years ago and it's delightful. There's even a musical arrangement by Clyde Robert Bulla of the verses:
"I like winter, I like snow,
I like icy winds that blow.
I like snowflakes, oh so light,
Making all the ground so white.
I like sliding down the hill,
I like tumbling
in
a
spill!"
Other favorite Winter Solstice reading:
The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice by Wendy Pfeffer
The Winter Solstice by Ellen Jackson
The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the
Winter Solstice by Carolyn McVickar Edwards
While the Bear Sleeps: Winter Tales and Traditions by Caitlin Matthews
Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend by Nancy Van Laan
Lucia and the Light by Phyllis Root
And some handy dandy blog posts the subject,
from Audrey at A Small Corner of Nowhere
and from Nika at Progressive Homeschool
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Graphic above by Dale McGowan, author of Parenting Beyond Belief, from his Meming of Life blog. And thanks to Lynn at Bore Me to Tears, where I learned about the graphic.
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