Celebrate the Freedom of July 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.

July Nature Journal

July brings fireflies and bonfires! I love s’mores and anything else I can cook over an open fire. I also love watching the mysterious dance of fireflies and the silhouettes of bats against the darkening night sky. Part of the fun of summer is enjoying long days and warm nights. I hope you can get outside, explore, observe, and enjoy nature this month!

A Walk Through July’s Lessons:

This month we look more closely at nighttime fun, fireflies and bugs, and thermal energy. In fact, this playlist gives you pretty much everything you need to know about thermal energy.

Step-by-step Firefly Art

A Firefly Lullaby for Toddlers

All About Thermal Energy:

Along with your Nature Journal pages, you might enjoy these activities and printables.

Thermal Pigment

Plus, learn more about using solar power to cook—and why it’s literally saving lives.

Make a solar cooker

Why are solar ovens important?

Fireflies:

Not everyone enjoys catching fireflies, but most of us love watching them. If you’d like to catch this summer, this video on catching fireflies gives great advice.

All about Fireflies

A Firefly Read-Aloud

Nature at Night:

Explore nature … at night (without staying up past your bedtime!).

Enjoy exploring with the recommendations below (affiliate links).

Writer’s Corner:

“What If?” is a writer’s most powerful question. Check out the What If below, then try coming up with your own!

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. And be sure to subscribe so you’ll be first to know when next month’s pages are available.

 

Subscribe below for all the upcoming 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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