My Year Nature Journal
Can You Make the Outdoors…
Absolutely Irresistible?
Open Exploration
My Year Nature Journal is your companion for Charlotte-Mason-inspired outdoor education. It encourages problem-solving, hands-on experience, movement, creative expression, critical thinking, and so much more!
Writing & Journaling
Each month integrates language arts and writing. Experience journaling, creative writing, poetry, and practice foundational writing tools. At the end of your year, not only will your students have explored, experienced, and learned, they will have a keepsake journal to enjoy for years to come.
Delightfully STEAM
Students will explore the natural world through the lenses of art, science, observation and experience. Yet at the center of My Year Nature Journal is delight. Our world is complex, magical, mysterious, and above all beautiful. Embrace and celebrate the beauty of nature in every lesson.
Are You Ready to Begin Your Exploration?
My Year Nature Journal gives you 12 full months of nature journal activity and free-creation pages to support your nature/outdoor education. The journal is perfect for fans of Charlotte Mason, Montessori, kinesthetic and hands-on learning, or to simply enhance your enjoyment of the outdoors.
Each month contains:
Monthly teacher’s guide.
Outdoor hands-on activities for exploration for each week of the month.
Indoor rainy-day pages.
Science concepts, art, language arts, conservation/nature appreciation.
Writer’s corner.
Topics Covered by month:
January—snow, winter animals, birds, shelter, verbs
February—night animals, animal tracks, states of matter, characterization
March—textures, camouflage & mimicry, trees & soil, story structure
April—metaphor & simile, poetry, weather & graphs, spring, buds
May—flowers & seeds, gardens, life cycle of a flower, decomposition, recycling
June—bees, wetlands, food webs, parts of speech
July—fireflies & insects, night creatures, observation, thermal energy
August—sun & shadows, seasons, rocks, water cycle
September—seasons, observation, describing words, five senses
October—leaves, the color wheel, personification, spiders
November—gratitude, clouds, nature mandalas, winter habitats
December—constellations, evergreens, pine cones, gift-giving & lists
So Many Ways To Enjoy My Year Nature Journal
Or Download and Print your own!
Enhance your exploration with …
The Book That Inspired My Year Nature Journal
Month-By-Month Online Guides
Choose a curated collection of videos, crafts, and links to accompany your current month!
