Nature Journal: Weekly Prompts, Charlotte Mason Inspired

This Nature Journal has many features for different styles of journaling. It is a great jump start for those adding this joyful habit to their home or classroom!

The pages and activities were inspired by Charlotte Mason and other leaders in the nature journaling movement to help you get started with this beautiful habit. Check out my podcasts at https://hatchingcuriosity.com/naturestudy to learn more about the benefits of nature study and for some ideas on how to enhance your experience in different seasons.

At the front of the journal, we have a Penology wheel where you draw once a month (in the triangle under that month) something you feel represents that time of the year as a way to observe seasons changing over time. It then has enough nature journal pages to go once a week for 32 weeks and 4 weeks of pages from the upcoming Observable Sky Journal to record phases of the moon, temperature, and other weather phenomena. There are 4 Star Mapping pages where you line up the horizon line with your horizon and sketch Constellations and how they move across the sky, so you can get out once a month to observe changes or several times over the course of the summer. Choose a tree in your backyard or favorite park to return to again and again as you watch is bud, bloom, and fall over 4 adop- a- tree pages. I've added a few new fun additions with the mapping page (complete with a grid to help with the math), a page to help you practice seeing things from all angles, and 4 pages called "Think like a scientist" to practice the scientific method. The next 8 pages are for recording observations over time like a plant growing or a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. You can write the hours/days/ or weeks at the top and record observations below. Next, we have a calendar of firsts where you record the first time you see something in a year so you can return to it the following year and have some ideas on what to look for in that month. Finally, there is favorite lists where you write their common name, scientific name and check the months that you encounter them to get an idea of the ebb and flow of seasons.

The pages included in this journal are:

32 Nature Journaling Pages
4 Observable Sky Pages
4 Star Mapping Pages
2 Over/Under pages
4 Adopt a Tree Pages
1 Map your Backyard Page
1 Observe all Angles Pages
4 Think Like a Scientist Pages
8 Observations over Time Pages
12 Calendar Firsts Pages
2 Favorite Lists

For a full year's worth of nature journaling.

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For more ideas and inspiration on Nature Study, including a free (you don't even need to subscribe) 3-part intro to nature study course, head over to https://hatchingcuriosity.com/naturestudy