The Raising Little Shoots Summer Sale has begun, with 20% off every resource until 16 August.
There are nature-study guides, journals, seasonal resources, homeschool-planning materials and devotionals for mothers included in the sale. Rather than presenting you with one enormous catalogue and leaving you to work out where to begin, I thought it might be more helpful to gather the resources according to what you need in this particular season.
This is not an encouragement to buy what you don’t need, but an opportunity to choose the few resources that may genuinely serve your family, and perhaps nourish yourself, in the months ahead.
“I need help beginning nature study”
Perhaps you have always wanted nature study to become a part of your own family culture, but instead it has remained one more lovely intention.
You may not feel knowledgeable enough, perhaps you have struggled to establish a regular rhythm, or found that the beautiful plans you made were simply too complicated to sustain within real family life.
These resources are designed to help you to begin right where you are, without the need to become an expert first.
A Nature Study Primer
A Nature Study Primer: 21 Days to the Habit of Nature Study offers a gentle, manageable way to begin, or to begin again.
Rather than asking you to transform your entire homeschool overnight, it helps you to establish the habit gradually, one small step at a time, and is particularly suited to families who love the idea of nature study but need a little structure and encouragement to actually make it happen.
Exploring Nature with Children
Exploring Nature with Children Now in it’s 16th year, ENWC is a classic within the home educating community, providing a complete year of nature study, following the changing seasons through weekly themes.
Each week includes a nature walk idea, a book suggestion, a poem, a piece of art, a discussion prompt and further activities. You may use everything provided or simply choose the elements that suit your family.
ENWC is written to be used year upon year for layered learning.
Exploring Nature with Children: A Guided Journal
The Exploring Nature with Children Guided Journal offers a beautiful place for children to record what they notice throughout the year.
It may be used alongside the curriculum, helping children to pause, observe and form a personal relationship with the natural world around them.
Together, these resources provide the encouragement, framework and place for recording that many families need when beginning nature study. Available individually, or as an extra value Bundle.
“I want a richer year of nature study”
Perhaps nature study is already part of your family life, but you would like to deepen it, noticing seasonal changes more carefully, helping your child to make connections across the year or create a more meaningful record of the places you return to again and again.
Exploring Nature with Children
Exploring Nature with Children can provide the central rhythm for your year, with each weekly theme offering an invitation to look more closely, and the opportunity to go as deeply as you wish.
The Guided Journal
Used alongside Exploring Nature with Children, The Guided Journal offers a place to gather drawings, written observations and memories from your studies.
Exploring Nature Around the Year
Exploring Nature Around the Year: 365 Days of Nature Journaling is a unique, easy to use curriculum, that provides a nature journaling prompt for every day of the year, with major and minor nature study themes woven throughout. No planning is required, it’s already done for you.
Learn how to keep a nature journal, and get to know nature’s rhythms in just a few minutes each day, noticing the wider patterns unfolding month by month, it is ideal for those who wish to move beyond isolated nature-study lessons and begin recognising the natural year as one continuous story.
The Phenology Wheel Guide
A phenology wheel is a circular record of seasonal change.
Children might record the first snowdrop, the return of the swallows, the ripening of blackberries or the gradual turning of the leaves. Over time, the wheel becomes a visual story of the year in your own particular place.
The Phenology Wheel Guide will help you to create and use one without turning the practice into something overly complicated.
“I am preparing for our autumn homeschool”
At this point in the summertime, our thoughts often begin to turn towards autumn.
There may be books to gather, rhythms to reconsider and plans beginning to form, but you do not need to organise every detail of the coming term, you may simply need a gentle framework, a few beautiful anchors and room for real family life.
The Charlotte Mason Homeschool Planner
The Charlotte Mason Homeschool Planner has been created to support thoughtful planning without demanding that every hour of family life be accounted for.
It offers space for the practical details of lessons and schedules, whilst keeping sight of the wider atmosphere, habits and family culture that we hope to nurture.
The Sanctuary of Childhood – Autumn
The Sanctuary of Childhood: Autumn is a seasonal companion for creating a childhood shaped by beauty, connection and meaningful family life.
This is not a workbook of tasks. It is not busy work, instead, it is a devotional companion for your child; simple, unhurried, and deeply rooted in God’s Word and the rhythms of the year.
Copywork Pages and Art Prints
The accompanying Copywork Pages and Art Prints offer simple, beautiful materials that provide an easy way to bring poetry, language and art into the atmosphere of the season.
The Harvest Festival
The Harvest Festival helps families to mark this rich turning point in the natural and Christian year.
Offering ideas for learning, reflection, food and celebration, helping you to create a meaningful observance without requiring weeks of preparation.
“I need a little nourishment for myself”
Many women arrive at Raising Little Shoots looking for something for their children.
They may be searching for a curriculum, a planner or a seasonal resource—and whilst here, realise that they indeed actually need something for themselves too. Us mothers are not merely the person delivering the education, organising the home and making the seasons beautiful for everyone else, our own inner life matters incredibly.
The Sanctuary of Home — Autumn
The Sanctuary of Home: Autumn is a seasonal guide for women who long to tend the soul of their homes with faith, beauty, and rhythm.
This Autumn Edition (September, October, November) is shaped around the theme of Gathering & Gratitude. It invites you to notice the shifting light, the ripening harvest, and the quiet turning of the year, and to root your days in peace and thanksgiving.
Keeping a Seasonal Diary
Keeping a Seasonal Diary: A Practice of Sacred Noticing invites you to record the small changes of the natural year and the everyday moments of your own life.
Whether you’re new to journaling or have kept diaries for years, Keeping a Seasonal Diary will help you to discover a slower, more mindful rhythm to daily life, blend faith, nature, and personal reflection, and create pages filled that nourish the soul and encourage gentle sacred noticing.
Light and Abiding Light
Light: A Simple Pattern for Everyday Prayer offers a gentle framework for returning to God throughout your ordinary days.
Over six days, you will learn a simple five-step pattern that you can carry with you anywhere:
Listen · Intend · Ground · Hallow · Thank & Trust
Preparing ahead for winter
For those who enjoy gathering resources before the busy season begins, The Year of Light and The Winter Light Bundle offer familiar devotional companionship throughout the winter months.
Choose what will truly serve you
A sale can sometimes create the feeling that we ought to gather everything whilst we have the chance. As mother whose now grown children never went to school, I am well aware of the lure of a curriculum sale! However, I would much rather you choose one resource that genuinely supports your family than purchase several that become another source of pressure.
Consider where you are now:
- Are you trying to begin nature study?
- Are you ready to deepen an existing practice?
- Are you preparing gently for the autumn term?
- Or are you longing for something that will nourish your own inner life?
Begin there.
The Raising Little Shoots Summer Sale runs until 16 August, with 20% off every product throughout the shop.
May you find something that helps you enter the coming season with a little more beauty, confidence and peace.
From my home to yours,
