How to Nature Jounal

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“As soon as he is able to keep it himself, a nature-diary is a source of delight to a child. Every day’s walk gives him something to enter: three squirrels in a larch tree, a jay flying across such a field, a caterpillar climbing up a nettle, a snail eating a cabbage leaf, a spider dropping suddenly to the ground, where he found ground ivy, how it was growing and what plants were growing with it, how bindweed or ivy manages to climb.” -Charlotte Mason (Home Education, p. 54)

Go outside with your nature jounal and a pencil. Have your child write down

  • The date

  • What they see and experience - weather, sun, clouds, wind, sounds, smells,

  • Where they are - i.e. back yard, park, vacation spot, etc.

  • Observations from nature - plants, animals, bugs, rocks, patterns, etc.

  • Draw paint, color what you see

  • Add poetry, quotations, Scripture

  • Make your journal beautiful and unique

Include one or more of the above. Most of all make nature journaling joyful.