BugsMama Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 We are! I am LOVING this book, we just started this week, and I am so excited about it. I ordered a few field guides to go along with it, and we are going to spend all year exploring the world around us! (I hope we don't loose the love for it in the winter!) Anyways- if you are using it and blogging, I want to follow you! Anyone? Also- do you have any favorite nature books to go along with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monarch Room Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 (edited) We are! I am LOVING this book, we just started this week, and I am so excited about it. I ordered a few field guides to go along with it, and we are going to spend all year exploring the world around us! (I hope we don't loose the love for it in the winter!) Anyways- if you are using it and blogging, I want to follow you! Anyone? Also- do you have any favorite nature books to go along with it? We're using it, but more for nature study (which of course is science too.) You're right! It's a great book. I wrote a little about it on our last week in review towards the bottom of week 3. The link is in my signature. I have it planned one day a week on Fridays. We're writing directly in the book, but I am going to get sketchbooks as well. My boys were jealous of my watercolor journal, and want one for themselves :) I also have the author's book Drawn to Nature. It is great book to get an idea of what a nature sketchbook can look like. We failed to do nature study last year, and this book makes it so much more doable. Edit: We have several field guides by Stan Tekiela. I have Birds of Missouri, and Trees of Missouri. The author has others for many other states. I really like these little guides. The birds are divided by color which helps a novice bird watcher actually find the bird they're looking for. I do have The Handbook of Nature Study as well. I love how it's written, and how old fashioned it is. Some people don't like that there aren't color pictures, but the descriptions won me over. I remember reading about how a queen ant flies only once, and then "sheds her then useless wings as a bride does her veil." Love it :) Edited September 9, 2012 by waternclay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAM Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 We are using it! It's great! Don't have much on my blog about it yet, but you are welcome to visit :) I have told myself I will start doing weekly reports again beginning this week. We are working on it 2-3 times per week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 I am glad to hear good things about this book, which I've sort of been eying for a while ... I thought I'd drop in an Amazon link: The Nature Connection. A similarly-oriented resource, recommended by a Waldorf-schooling friend, is Hands-On Nature: she used this for her early elementary science spine. And for the younger set: Small Wonders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 We began using this book again today. We had dabbled in it a little bit last year and loved it, but I wanted to be more diligent about it this year. Your op inspired me to chronicle our nature studies using The Nature Connection on my blog this year. I wrote my first post today: Mockingbird Park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 My first post about it is here: http://onlypassionatecuriosity.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/the-nature-connection-september-tree-study/ Today we looked at a leaf from one of the trees and managed to positively identify it. Its a bit strange to be surrounded by plants and bugs I don't automatically recognize. I already love this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 We began using this book again today. We had dabbled in it a little bit last year and loved it, but I wanted to be more diligent about it this year. Your op inspired me to chronicle our nature studies using The Nature Connection on my blog this year. I wrote my first post today: Mockingbird Park Awesome! I just subscribed to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 We're using it, but more for nature study (which of course is science too.) . . . We're writing directly in the book, but I am going to get sketchbooks as well. . . This sounds similar to how we are using it. My dd writes in it, but also has a sketch book. For myself, I have the hardcover nature journal by the same author--Nature Journal: A Guided Journal for Illustrating and Recording Your Observations of the Natural World. We also have Keeping a Nature Journal, another of Clare Walker Leslie's books, on our nature study bookshelves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 We're planning to start using this soon. I also wanted to share these free downloadable worksheets. They are the same as in the book, but easier to make copies this way. http://www.storey.com/thenatureconnection.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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