Enjoying the Outdoors in June with the My Year Nature Journal
The FULL and expanded My Year Nature Journal is Now Available!!!
To celebrate the release of my third picture book, A Year With Mama Earth, I’m creating a nature journal inspired by Rebecca Green’s illustrations and the book’s lyrical text. Be sure to follow my Nature Education Pinterest board for even more resources!
If you haven’t yet started My Year Nature Journal, I strongly recommend card stock for the cover and something heavier than standard copy paper for the internal pages (28lb minimum). Either three-hole-punch and place in a binder or hole punch and hold together with rings. You’ll be adding more pages each month, so be sure your binder has plenty of room! 2” should suffice.
Be sure to add your Month Sticker! Download the printable file at the end of this post.
June Nature Journal
June where I live brings dancing bees, fragrant roses, and thunder showers. It’s sometimes finally warm enough to break out the sprinkler or wade in the creek. Wetlands come alive with eager life in June, which makes June a perfect month to visit a stream, marsh or other wetland. I hope you can get outside and enjoy those first breaths of summer!
A Walk Through June’s Lessons:
This month we look more closely at bees, wetlands, and summer favorites. Join Marty on a walk through the Ohio wilderness.
Listen to the Flight of the Bumblebee
A Counting Bee Song for Toddlers
All About Bees:
Along with your Nature Journal pages, you might enjoy these activities and printables.
Make your own busy bee hand puppets using everyday materials.
And your bees will of course need honey—make faux-honey-slime here.
How does pollination happen? Explore with this pollination activity using cheese powder!
Can’t get enough about bees? Find ALLLLL the bee fun in this online unit study.
Plus, learn more about bees below.
All the Bee Basics
Beyond Bees: Pollination
Wetlands:
A wetland is one type of habitat. Create your own backyard habitat with this guide.
Make your own biosphere—can you make it self-sustaining?
Possibly the easiest and coolest idea I’ve seen: DIY underwater magnifying glass!
A Wetland Rap? Yes, please!
PreK Wetland Exploration
Food Chains and Webs
Discover more about food chains and webs below.
Enjoy exploring with the recommendations below (affiliate links).
A rainy day bee game.
Water cycle puzzle.
The safest way to get close to bees!
Writer’s Corner:
Parts of speech are easy when we relate them to the real world, so get outside and notice nouns, adjectives, and do some verbs.
So that’s it. Sit back, download, print. Then *get outside* to enjoy the month while you can. On those yucky days, check out the videos above.
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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.