Little Flower Folks: Living Botany Books

Posted in Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 20, 2012

Everyone loves flowers.   They are the beauty of nature.  These two books explore the delicate makeup of flowers, as well as the plants that produce them. There are plenty of great illustrations to visualize the living botany lessons in these volumes.  They would make great additions to a notebook or lapbook project. Download the Read More »

Nature Study In Elementary Schools

Posted in Animals, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Plants, Upper Elementary on April 19, 2012

This first level reader contains stories, pictures, and poetry for each month corresponding to the traditional school year. Bonus: Each section has a list of words that would serve as a vocabulary list! This is a beautiful book.  Children will learn about bees, seeds, animals, and more as they read the beautiful poems and tomes. Read More »

Exploring Nature With Your Child

Posted in Animals, High School, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 16, 2012

An Introduction to the Enjoyment and Understanding of Nature You are going to love this book! Written in 1952, Exploring Nature With Your Child is an awesome companion to any nature study.  It contains 470+ pages of information on studying all aspects of nature with your children. Some of the topics covered: Birds Fish Flowers Read More »

How to Attract the Birds

Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 9, 2012

If we realized how carefully and how hopefully our gardens and orchards are scrutinized every spring, and on what details judgment upon them is passed by the sharp-eyed inspectors, we might, so easily, with a little forethought, arrange them to the taste of the home seekers. This book is a narrative on how to attract Read More »

Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies

Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 3, 2012

And we who wrote this book? Well, we, too, have been children. We used to climb trees and turn somersaults; why—But that is another story! And we remember so well what it used to be like to have to learn dull things we did not wish to know. So we said to ourselves, as we Read More »

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