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.
Hello, I’m having trouble purchasing the ebook! It says it can’t connect to PayPal? Thanks, Kara
I am having a hard time purchasing the ebook as well.
Can you please email me an invoice for Exploring Nature with Children? I made several attempts yesterday and today, but payment portals do not seem to be working. Thank you.
Hello, I have exceeded my number of download because I kept trying to get it to save on my phone.
What ages/grade level is this curriculum recommended for?
Hello there, Anya!
I have tried to make this book as family friendly, and multi-age as possible. It gives you the necessary scientific information for each week’s nature theme, then the parent can present those facts as they see fit, to each individual child. A child that is old enough to keep a nature journal will get the most out of it, but I have included suggestions for using the book with much younger children, too. I wrote this book because I had been looking to buy something like this since my 15 year old daughter was a toddler. I would have jumped at this book, even with a tiny, because it would equip me as a mum to talk with my child about nature, without having to go through a pile of different books first!
The extension activities included vary; venn diagrams, writing poetry, making models, amongst many others. I have been very careful to use only relevant, authentic activities, with absolutely no busy work. Some will suit younger children, others are for the older child.
You can view samples if you click through in the shop above. This should help you to decide if ENWC will work for your own family.
Happy exploring!
Lynn
Hello, I just purchased this book and I don’t have any way to read it! It’s not in my email or where do I find it? Please help! I can’t wait already to read it and apply like today!)) thank you,
Marina
Thank you for your message.
I am terribly sorry that you have not received your download link, the system is automated, so you should have received an email as soon as you checked out. I shall re-set your purchase now, so that another email is sent to you straight away. It will come from Payhip, the company that host my book online.
Please could you let me know once you have received it?
Kind regards
Lynn
Hi. Iv just paid and ordered the curriculum but haven’t received it . Can you advise please
Good morning, Nicola!
Thank you for your message.
I am terribly sorry that you have not received your download link, the system is automated, so you should have received an email as soon as you checked out. I shall re-set your purchase now, so that another email is sent to you straight away. It will come from Payhip, the company that host my book online.
Please could you let me know once you have received it?
Kind regards
Lynn
Just wondering if anyone has had trouble with the card declining. I’ve never had this problem before and notice through comments that there have been several issues with purchasing/downloading. Has anyone tried to purchase within the past few days?
Good morning, Shanna!
I am terribly sorry that you are having this issue.
I have just had a look at the failed payment. It appears that your payment was declined by your bank. I only am shown a generic reason (I have emailed you with an attached screenshot.) But the most likely issue is that the sale is overseas, and it’s a method of fraud prevention (I am in England.) If you contact your bank and authorise the payment, you should be fine to check out.
Again, huge apologies, I hope that you are able to get this resolved.
Do let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
Lynn
Good afternoon. I live in Russia, I can not buy your book on studying nature. The Buy Now button is inactive. Tell me, please, how can I get your study of nature with children?
Good afternoon. I live in Russia, I can not buy your book on studying nature. The Buy Now button is inactive. Tell me, please, how can I get your study of nature with children?
Hello there, Alina!
The website had a major infrastructure update earlier and there was a caching case we didn’t consider – it’s been resolved now, so you should be ok to go ahead & purchase.
Thank you for your patience!
Kind regards
Lynn
I ordered and paid but my transaction cant go through…it declined my card but there is no problems with it.
I just left a comment saying I was trying to order and pay but my card was declined and card has no issues. I forgot to add my email. Thank you
Good evening, Patricia!
I am terribly sorry that you are having this issue.
I have just had a look at the failed payment. It appears that your payment was declined by your bank. I only am shown a generic reason (I have email you a screenshot.) But the most likely issue is that the sale is overseas (I am in England.) If you contact your bank and authorise the payment, you should be fine to check out.
Again, huge apologies, I hope that you are able to get this resolved.
Do let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
Lynn
We love this resource — we’ve been using it off and off in our Home Ed Journey for a few years now!
I just linked back to it from one of my Unit Study Resource pages (http://birdfromanegg.com/minibeast-unit-study-resources-you-need/) as I’ve just started putting together some Home Ed things on my Blog!
Thank you so much for putting this together! xxx
Thank you so much for your kind comments, and for sharing.
Happy exploring!
Lynn
Hello, I just tried to purchase your ebook, with my PayPal Business MasterCard. I know there is plenty of available money, but it is declining. Would you’ve able to see what the problem is
Good evening, Michele,
I am terribly sorry that you are having this issue.
I have just had a look at the failed payments. It appears that your payment was declined by your bank. I only am shown a generic reason (I have just emailed you with the screenshot.) But the most likely issue is that the sale is overseas (I am in England.) If you contact your bank and authorise the payment, you should be fine to check out.
Again, huge apologies, I hope that you are able to get this resolved.
Do let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
Lynn
HI I can’t seem to purchase this ebook, I’ve put in three diff. cards and none of them are being accepted? Please help!
Good morning, Katie!
I am terribly sorry that you are having this issue.
I have just had a look at the failed payments. It appears that the payments were declined by your bank. I only am shown a generic reason (I have just emailed you the screenshot.) But the most likely issue is that the sale is overseas (I am in England.) If you contact your bank and authorise the payment, you should be fine to check out.
Again, huge apologies, I hope that you are able to get this resolved.
Do let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
Lynn
Good morning! I would like to have your curriculum printed and bound at my local office store. Do you have a letter of consent you could share with me for this purpose? I would appreciate it! Thanks!
Hello there!
There’s a release on page two of the book. I hope this helps!
Kind regards
Lynn
Hello! I am trying to purchase and it says my card is declined even thought there are sufficient funds. Please help ? 🙏🏽
Hi there. I have purchased Exploring Nature with Children and the Phenology documents, but neither has been emailed to me yet. Please advise. Thank you!
Megan Stripe
Good afternoon, Megan
Thank you for your message.
I am terribly sorry that you have not received your download link, the download links were sent out to you on June 21st. I shall re-set your purchase now, so that another email is sent to you straight away.
Please could you let me know once you have received it?
Kind regards
Lynn
I received them, thank you so much!
Smashing, thank you for taking the time to let me know.
Happy exploring!
Hi! I just orders the book but I have not received a link to the pdf. Could you send me one? Thanks!
Good evening, Whitney!
Thank you for your message.
I am terribly sorry that you have not received your download link, the system is automated, so you should have received an email as soon as you checked out. I am not able to find any purchase to this email address, other than the free seasonal pages. (I have emailed you with the screenshot.) Is it possible that you have used a different email address?
I shall await your response.
Warmly,
Lynn