Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years (Small Group License)
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A Year-Long 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.
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 Overview
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 Overview
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 make Treehouse 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.
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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.
Refund Policy
Due to the nature of digital downloads, we cannot offer refunds on any digital products. All digital download sales are final.
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I’ve started using this program for our English as a second language learning (we’re in Quebec) and also for our French projects, since I pair it with French books. The materials are amazing — so beautiful and inspiring! I absolutely love it!
Very easy to follow, We love the art work.
I just love this resource, it is made with such love and really helps us to homeschool close to nature. Thank you so much. Unfortunately, homeschooling is not allowed here in Germany, but as long as the system lets us, this is what enriches our early years. Also really works well for kids for whom English is not the first language!
This nature study was just what my boys and I needed. This is our first year homeschooling and I have a 3rd grader and a 2 year old. I love that we can do this together and it really jump-started my oldest’s interest in learning. We went to the zoo after finishing up the birds of prey week and I’ve never seen my boys so interested in watching birds. So cool. I love the conversations we are having as we study the art and poetry and my 2 year old can’t get enough of the songs and the hand rhymes. I would highly recommend this to everyone!
My young daughter has been asking to do "science" as part of our homeschool work, and this curriculum has been perfect for filling that request! I love that we can pick and choose the topics that she is interested in and all the activities and book selections for that week are clearly written. This is my first exposure to nature study work and I have found the directions for completing the notebook work very clear to follow. We are also enjoying the other beauty components like the folk song and art discussions too!