Nursery World - Your outdoor calendar: July 2022

While babies should be kept out of direct sunlight, older children can slip on a hat, spray on sunscreen and make the most of the long, warm days outdoors. By Julie Mountain

natural learning

Don’t forget that summer is a season too – it’s easy to overlook when children learn so much about springtime renewal and growth, autumnal changes and wintry weather over the course of the year. An interesting twist on exploring the seasons is to look at what the seasons are right now in other parts of the world – particularly if you have children with family or cultural roots around the globe. Show children a real globe, pointing out that on the opposite side of the world to us, they have the opposite season – use an orange to represent the sun, to show how the earth spins on its axis (the globe’s ‘stand’) and around the sun at the same time. Concepts to share with even very young children might include:

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