Treehouse Nature Study: Autumn, Primary Years (Small Group License)
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$135.00 - Regular price
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$135.00
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 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.
Autumn Nature Study Themes
Each week of this 13-week guide is focused on a seasonal nature theme. The Autumn themes are:
- 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
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 150 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 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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Treehouse Nature Study: Autumn, Primary Years (Small Group License)
- Regular price
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$135.00 - Regular price
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- Sale price
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$135.00
Our Core Values
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Whole-Family Learning
Our resources are designed with family-style learning in mind, so they can be used across multiple ages.
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Open and Go
We design our curriculum to be easy to follow with minimal prep needed.
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High Quality Materials
Our products are not only practical but beautiful. We use high quality illustrations and offer professional printing and binding.
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Educating the Whole Child
Our products educate more than a child's mind through music, poetry, art, nature, and rich literature.
I am planning to use this with my 3 kids and am so excited to start. I love the recommended books (makes it easy for planning ahead with the library) and that it incorporates poetry and music. My children love nature and animals and I think the activities will work well family style. We plan to use this to start our day together after their morning responsibilities. I also appreciate the guide which breaks down each part, especially the nature notebooking which we look forward to using to document learning and hope to apply and adapt to other areas.
I really love the book studies that I ordered, but I was having a problem with the log in and could not log in or access the book studies that I had ordered. I emailed twice and never received a response back. I’m hoping that by posting a negative review here I can actually get a response. I will very happily change my review to 5 stars if I can get a helpful response.
I love this program and really just adapt it to fit our schedule. I’m using this for a 3 year old so it is very loose and just about having fun. It will be nice to repeat topics over the years and dive deeper whenever she is ready. I love the beautiful imagery and hand rhymes!
I am planning for two primary age kiddos and this is perfect for what I need. It is very thoughtfully laid out. The planner is excellent quality that will last through the school year.
We used the treehouse schoolhouse nature studies for our kindergarten year of homeschool and made for the most enjoyable, gentle start to schooling. My daughter loved the books suggested and I appreciate the variety of hands on activities. Truly a gem of a resource!