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.

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.

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).

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.

 

Subscribe below for a sampling of all my Nature Journal printables!

 

To preview any of these items, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store. You’ll be able to see several pages of each download.

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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