Spend May in the Garden with 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.
May Nature Journal
May we go outdoors yet? Of course! Flowers, cute, baby plants, a garden full of promise. May is one of my favorite months. I hope you’ll enjoying being outside as much as I will. Finally, no more snow!
A Walk Through May’s Lessons:
Be sure to add your Month Sticker! Download the printable file at the end of this post. I’ve included a place on every month’s first page for students to draw a seasonal self-portrait.
This month we look more closely at seeds, plants, germination and more! Find out all about decomposers with this video.
Great example of a well-planned garden
A Garden Guessing Game for Toddlers
All About Seeds:
Along with your Nature Journal pages, you might enjoy these activities and printables.
Can you grow a seed in a jar? Sure—try the experiment here.
Plant seeds the easy way with DIY seed bombs.
Explore the parts of a flower with this cute craft!
Plus, learn more about plants below.
How do seeds become plants?
A seed time lapse
Recycling:
Recycling happens in nature through decomposition, but we can help by recycling things that take a long time to biodegrade.
Try this free printable recycling game.
Or combine gardening with recycling by making an egg carton seed starter.
All about recycling
Sesame Street Recycling
The Life Cycle of a Plant
Discover more about the plants below.
Enjoy exploring with the recommendations below (affiliate links).
A garden and a maze!
Every home library needs a full line of field guides.
Get out and garden!
Writer’s Corner:
With all this work on gardening, it’s easy to forget to write. You can plan an essay, story, even a poem the way you plan a garden.
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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To preview any of these items, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store. You’ll be able to see several pages of each download.