Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
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Recommended for: Early Years (PreK-K), Primary Years (K-3rd)
A Year-Long Charlotte Mason and Waldorf-Inspired Seasonal Nature Study for Elementary
Treehouse Nature Study is a seasonal nature study curriculum designed with family-style learning in mind. It is a gentle guide meant to invite various ages to connect with each other and the world around them through living books, nature notebooking, hands-on projects, and beauty subjects such as poetry, picture study, and folk songs.
From preschool through upper middle school, it appeals to every age and is easily used with multiple ages at the same time.
It would be a great fit for your preschool or kindergartener’s core curriculum or your whole family’s home education Morning Time and Nature Study. It also provides supplemental work for your children’s language arts through poetry memorization, recitation, copywork, and notebooking.
Nature Study Themes
Each week of this 52-week guide is focused on a seasonal nature theme. The themes are:
Autumn
- Apples
- Birds of Prey
- Autumn Equinox
- Arachnids
- Fungi
- Deciduous Trees
- Moon
- Pumpkins and Corn
- Stars
- Woodland Creatures
- Tracks and Scat
- Rocks, Minerals, Fossils
- Changing Leaves
Winter
- Winter Birds
- Wind
- Winter Solstice
- Coniferous Trees
- Seasons
- Mountains
- Animals in Winter
- Snow and Ice
- Shadows
- Nocturnal Animals
- Maple Sugaring
- Weather
- Moss and Lichen
Spring
- Seeds and Sprouts
- Rainbows
- Spring Equinox
- Snails and Worms
- Caterpillars, Moths, and Butterflies
- Birds
- Edible Gardening
- Clouds and Rain
- Bees
- Snakes
- Spring Flowers
- Insects
- Pond Life
Summer
- Soil and Composting
- The Sun
- Summer Solstice
- Bodies of Water
- Marine Mammals
- Sharks and Fish
- Mollusks and Crustaceans
- Seashells
- Summer Flowers
- Storms
- Beetles
- Reptiles
- Landforms
Teacher's Guide
The Treehouse Nature Study Teacher's Guide is an overview with everything you need to guide your children through each day's nature study lesson. Each week of this 52-week study includes a weekly grid with daily lesson instructions making it easy to follow along. Each week has a themed folk song, hand rhyme, poem, and picture study. The daily lesson plans walk you through engaging with these beauty subjects in a new way each day. They also include links to Spotify and YouTube where you can listen to the folk songs together and learn the movements of the week's hand rhyme.
In addition to the beauty subjects, the teacher's guide includes step-by-step instructions for each week's Nature Connection Activities including recipes, experiments, and handcrafts. There are detailed material lists for each week making it easy to quickly prep for the week's activities.
At the core of Treehouse Nature Study is a focus on living books. Each week in the Teacher's Guide includes fiction, non-fiction, and reference books that correlate to the week's theme. The guide highlights relevant reference pages from The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock and the books in The Julia Rothman Collection. Your digital purchase of Treehouse Nature Study includes a Master Book List with over 600 books organized by season and theme.
Student Sheets
What sets Treehouse Nature Study apart from other studies are the beautiful, vintage illustrations and true-to-life diagrams. The student sheets include folk song lyrics, hand rhyme lyric and motion sheets, poetry and poetry copywork, and classic art picture study sheets. These full-color, high-resolution display sheets feature vintage botanical and nature illustrations including nature anatomy and life cycle posters. In addition, the student sheets offer hands-on activities like 3-part cards, scavenger hunts, investigation worksheets, and more.
Reference Materials
It is our desire to makeTreehouse Nature Study as "open and go" as possible. In addition to the Master Book List, your digital purchase also includes mini-biographies of each artist and poet organized by week. The introduction of the Teacher's Guide includes detailed instructions on how to tailor the study to different age groups so you can easily use it with the whole family. In addition, the introduction includes a Picture Study Guide and Nature Study Notebooking Guide to teach you how to guide your children through these activities that may be new to your family.
Digital Download Details
This file is a digital download and will be sent to the email address you use to checkout. The curriculum is a compressed .zip file that contains folders for each season with the Teacher Guide, Student Sheets organized by week, and Reference Materials. For best quality print results, I recommend you print using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application.
Hard Copy Details
This hard copy curriculum will be professionally printed on a commercial-grade printing press on sturdy 70 lb. weight matte paper. The hard copy includes:
- 4 Teacher Guides (one for each season), spiral-bound with a glossy cardstock cover.
- 4 sets of Student Sheets (one for each season), printed single-sided on heavy-weight paper. I recommend you purchase additional Student Sheets for each additional student in your family.
This will guarantee your artwork and display pieces are of the highest quality and can be used for many years. All hard copies will ship in 3-5 business days. You will also receive your digital files right away.
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Features
Family Style Learning
Beauty and Goodness
Living Books
Hands-On Learning
From preschool through upper middle school, it appeals to every age and is easily used with multiple ages at the same time.
Introduce children to the beauty around them and incorporate beauty subjects such as poetry, art study and music.
Enjoy an extensive booklist of picture books, non-fiction titles, and relevant reference selections from the most popular books for nature study in home education.
Instead of simply studying nature, immerse your children in it with activities like foraging for mushrooms, nature walks, animal track identification, notebooking and more.
“Early in our home education I went on a search for a gentle guide to take our family on an educational journey through the seasons. I wanted something that was simple and beautiful and that introduced my children to art, poetry, living books, and nature in an organic way. I couldn't find what I had dreamed up in my head, so instead I developed it. My hope is that Treehouse Nature Study is a tool to truly awaken delight and wonder in your home education.”
– LYNDSEY, FOUNDER AND AUTHOR OF TREEHOUSE NATURE STUDY
Try a free week of Treehouse Nature Study
Get a free week fromTreehouse Nature Study when you join our Treehouse Schoolhouse email community. This free download comes from Spring Week Five: Caterpillars, Moths, and Butterflies.
Testimonials
AnaWe absolutely love Treehouse Nature Study. Everything has been planned out for you to easily pull out and use each day. There is a rhythm to each day and flow throughout the week. Our young preschool aged children especially love the hand rhymes, listening to the music, and learning hands on with some of the suggested activities.
BrittanyThe hand rhymes & vintage photo studies are a family favorite each week. So excited to continue to use these studies each year & dig deeper, definitely worth the purchase!
DestinieOur lessons are the best part of our day and it's added so much fun to our weekly routine. My kids love the poems and folk songs, I love artist/art study, the illustrations are gorgeous that my children are so drawn to learn more about each subject. I highly recommend this material to anyone who is looking for a beautiful curriculum to add some luster to your homeschool routine!
LindsayThank you so much Lyndsey for bringing some much needed beauty, peace, and togetherness to our homeschool! This curriculum will serve us for years to come and brings just the right amount of beauty to our day.
CharleneAbsolutely love this curriculum. Having home educated for almost 10 years I've been through my fair share of curriculum. This, hands down, is my favourite. It's simple, inspiring and beautiful.
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Overview of Treehouse Nature Study
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My kids love this curriculum. They love the lessons and the hands on activities. They get to pick their book of choice from the book basket to read so it’s always interesting for them.
I took the leap in ordering this bundle of Nature Studies, and have been no less than amazed at their depth and quality, while still savoring of the sweet simplicity inherent in all the Treehouse Schoolhouse products. We have used quite a few different types of Nature Study guides and even a subscription or two, but none of them came close to the ease of use, powerful beauty, and joy for the children that we've experienced time and again with Treehouse Schoolhouse. I am just a normal homeschooling Mom who was always struggling to fit in this formative and inspiring school subject, until finding these guides, and now it seems that we are actually not just 'getting it done', but thriving, and loving every minute. Thank you so much to you all!
My 2y loves the activities and the pictures are beautiful.
Treehouse Nature Study’s resources are some of the best. I have a 5 year old and nearly 2 year old, and her intermediate nature study provides the perfect mix of fun and solid in depth learning! The art is gorgeous and thrills my own heart; the poems and hands on activities are fun and perfect for kindergarten and early elementary. The books chosen are beautiful and superbly written - no fluff. For their current ages, we actually do 1 week’s worth of the study over two weeks. We have used their Easter study, Autumn, Thanksgiving and will be doing their Christmas and Winter study this upcoming winter.
Prior to using Treehouse, I was using from another similar curriculum., and I was so impressed with how much richer and yet more approachable Treehouse was. Previously, I had to do much more tweaking of the curriculum for it fit our life. In contrast, Treehouse lays out what you need to do and have on hand in such a simple way, that my prep time is nearly non-existent. The teacher’s guide enabled me to jump right in and successfully attempt things like narration and art study (things I had no exposure to previously). We plan to continue to use this for many years to come, as the material easily enables you to scale up or down for your child’s specific needs. It is well, well worth the cost.
We have been enjoying the nature study so much for our preschoolers. My kids are 4 and 2 so we implements parts of this and take about 2 weeks to do each week but i love it because we can repeat these in future years and add more as they get older. I highly reccomend!