Treehouse Nature Study: Spring, Primary Years (Small Group License)
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If you intend to use this curriculum with a small group, you will need to purchase a Small Group License. You may select a group size from the drop-down menu below. This listing is for the small group license. If you wish to purchase an individual copy of the curriculum, visit this page.
A Charlotte Mason and Waldorf-Inspired Seasonal Nature Study for the Whole Family
“We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.” - Charlotte Mason
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.
Each week of this 13-week guide is focused on a Spring nature theme.
The Spring themes are:
- 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
Each week of this 13-week guide includes the following themed material:
- Lesson plan overviews with detailed material and book lists
- Lesson plan grids with daily lesson instructions including: Folk Songs, Hand Rhymes, Poetry, Picture Study, Nature Study Book Basket, Nature Connection Activities
- Folk song lyric sheets with coordinating Spotify links
- Hand rhyme lyric and hand motion sheets with coordinating YouTube videos
- Poetry display sheets with coordinating copywork sheets
- Full color, high-resolution picture study display sheets
- Extensive booklists including fiction picture books, non-fiction picture books, and relevant reference pages from The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock and the books in The Julia Rothman Collection
- Full-color, high-resolution educational display sheets using vintage illustrations (nature anatomy and life cycle posters, 3-part cards, charts, and more)
- Nature connection instructions (recipes, scavenger hunts, investigation worksheets, handcrafts, experiments, and more)
This curriculum also includes:
- 37-page Teacher Guide with daily lesson plans
- 2022 Curriculum Calendar to follow along with holidays and others using the curriculum
- Detailed introduction including tips on how to tailor the guide to different ages
- Printing and organizing instructions and tips
- Picture Study Guide with starter questions
- Nature Study Notebook Guide
- Master Book List with over 150 fiction, non-fiction, and reference books
- Artist and Poet Study reference materials
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 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.
Digital Download Details
This file is a digital download and will be delivered electronically to the email address you use to check out. For best results, we recommend you print using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application.
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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!