Outdoor Hour Challenge - New Direction: May Newsletter

Itch: To have a restless desire or hankering for something.

Have you ever felt an itch and couldn't scratch it? Has something ever nagged you and you at first could not decide what it was that was bothering you? I have had an itch to do something different with the Outdoor Hour Challenges for awhile now and the time has come to make a few changes. Changes for the better that will freshen up the concept and give us all a little freedom.

My life has changed quite a bit in the last three years, growing children and changing interests have flavored my days with wonderful experiences and opportunities. I am not ready to leave the Outdoor Hour Challenge behind yet....but rather give it some new life.


Here are the highlights of the changes:

1. Instead of a weekly challenge, there will be a monthly newsletter with a month's worth of nature study suggestions, new nature journal ideas, a custom notebook page, and always a few more goodies. 
2. Each newsletter will be filled with specific ideas for encouraging nature study in your family, no matter where you live.
3. The newsletter will be available at the beginning of each new month and you will be able to download it and print for your family.
4.The newsletter will outline the Outdoor Hour Challenge topics for the month and all participants will complete the challenges the same as before but there will no longer be a Mr. Linky each week. Instead, blog entries will be shared in the monthly Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival at the end of the month.
5. I will still share our family's Outdoor Hour Challenge experiences on my blog and support everyone's entries by sharing about them in the Blog Carnival.

There will be something for everyone whether you are brand new to the Outdoor Hour Challenge or you have been participating through the seasons. I encourage you to download May's Newsletter and see for yourself that the change is going to be exciting. My hope is that this will help even more families find a way to incorporate nature study into their monthly homeschooling. Please feel free to send me an email with any questions or comments.

Here is the May 2011 Outdoor Hour Challenge Newsletter.