My Year Nature Journal

Activity Books
Written By Rebecca Grabill
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Can You Make the Outdoors…

Absolutely Irresistible?

 
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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!

 
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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.

 
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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

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Or Download and Print your own!

My Year Nature Journal
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Nature Journal for Toddlers and PreK
Nature Journal for Toddlers and PreK
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Enhance your exploration with …

The Book That Inspired My Year Nature Journal

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A Year With Mama Earth
A Year With Mama Earth

A Year With Mama Earth is a poetic exploration of the seasons.

Mama Earth rustles her autumn wings to cool her hot, tired face. She sighs, and the first September frost crackles over bowing stalks of corn.

“With enchanting text and radiant artwork, A Year with Mama Earth offers a joyous celebration of nature’s beauty and the changing seasons.”

— THE CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL

 

Month-By-Month Online Guides

Choose a curated collection of videos, crafts, and links to accompany your current month!

Rebecca Grabill

Rebecca has been writing since childhood, her first book about a kitten published between homemade cardboard covers in second grade. Although she studied religion and philosophy in university, she continued writing, earning an MFA from Hamline University and publishing multiple picture books (no longer with homemade covers) and a collection of poetry with a variety of New York and independent publishers. She has also published a wide array of fiction, essays, and poetry in magazines and journals and photographs for Getty Images. She balances writing with homeschooling the younger of her six children, launching her young adults, church activities, and overseeing a small flock of chickens in rural West Michigan.

www.rebeccagrabill.com
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