A Year With Mama Earth PDF Download

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! 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. 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. 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. *This Version Starts in January to align with the calendar year. A September-start version is also available!* 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