Exploring Nature With Children: A Guided Journal
Exploring Nature With Children is a complete, year-long curriculum designed to guide you, step by step, through an entire calendar year of nature study. Completely self-contained, this book has all the information you need to make nature study happen regularly for your family.
Exploring Nature With Children contains:
- An entire chapter devoted to getting you up and running with nature study.
- Forty-eight weeks of themed and guided nature study; four weeks for each month of the year, organised by season. Exploring Nature With Children can be used as a whole year’s study, or dipped in and out of as you please.
Each week’s guided study contains the following:
- A themed nature walk.
Exploring Nature With Children will take you step by step through a themed, Charlotte Mason-style, nature walk. There is no need to hunt through various books and websites; all the information you need is there, leaving you free to enjoy being out in nature with your child.
- References to the Handbook Of Nature Study.
Exploring Nature With Children is completely self-contained, but includes references to related pages in the Handbook Of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, should you wish to delve a little deeper.
- A themed book list.
With books for children of all ages, you will find a comprehensive list of living books related to the week’s nature study theme. Exploring Nature With Children is a self-contained course, so the book list is an extra tool, not a necessity.
You will also receive the booklist compiled separately, should you wish to use it as an additional planning tool.
- A poem
Related to the nature theme of the week; a classic piece of poetry that can be used for copywork, dictation, or simply to just read aloud and enjoy.
- A piece of art
The name and details of a piece of art that relates to the nature theme of the week has been included. This can easily be looked up online, or in art books available from your local library.
- Extension activities for your child
Here you will find a list of activities, written directly to your child, that will extend their nature study throughout the whole of the week. You will find ideas for crafts, writing, science, maths, and more, with absolutely no busy work.
I was VERY excited to find this site though when I looked at the sample it said it was for week 3 in January and trees would be budding. LOL
Is there maybe a colder climate version, as there is NO way that will be happening in January, February or even March most years where we live. TIA
Are you sure? 😉 The budding actually starts a looong time before you notice it. I learned this from my own nature study. Budding isn’t the presence of leaves, it’s tiny little nodules that start to form a good long time before the green shows up. I’m in Colorado FWIW.
We have the opposite situation. I just bear our different weather in mind when choosing a lesson.
P.s. But Jessica’s comment is so true.
Hi there! Could someone please tell me where to find and purchase the handbook that has all the information? The table of contents lists all the page numbers, but I don’t know where the handbook can be found with all the information. Please help! Thank you so much!
Hiya, could you tell me if this would be usable in Aotearoa ( New Zealand ) please?
I really love using this curriculum and I am now unable to reaccess it. Please could I have the link resent, it’s slightly annoying not being able to reprint for my boys to use.
I used this lovely curriculum with my grandsons who really enjoyed the nature hikes and discovery. The art copy work was fun for all of us. We used lots of different media to reproduce the works of the great artists. It is a well rounded curriculum and covers all subjects except some history and math for older grades. I found more reproducible pages to incorporate with these from hubbardscupboard.org, and they mesh well. One grandson is in public high school now but I still use this with the 10 year old.