• Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
  • Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
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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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          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years

          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.

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          Testimonials

          We 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.

          Ana

          The 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!

          Brittany

          Our 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!

          Destinie

          Thank 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.

          Lindsay

          Absolutely 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.

          Charlene

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          Customer Reviews

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          Madison
          We love this for our preschool!

          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!

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          Tayla

          Absolutely beautiful. A true joy to use with my children.

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          Lacy McCarty
          Beautiful!

          This curriculum is so beautiful that I literally would have loved it as a child, myself! I can't wait to learn this along side my daughter.♡

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          Niki Francis
          Obsessed!

          We bought this curriculum despite having purchased a different curriculum previously for the current school year. I fell in love with the sample week we tried and I knew we needed to incorporate this into our homeschool journey. The curriculum is just so delightful and fun and engaging. I love that I can use it with multiple ages at the same time. Encouraging togetherness is another thing I love about this curriculum. If you’re looking for a fun, inspirational curriculum to use with the littles you love, this is exactly it!

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          Darby Sims
          Our primary kindergarten curriculum!

          We have been using the nature study curriculum for a month now and we love it! It’s our main curriculum for kindergarten as it has everything we wanted (poetry, memorization, songs, handwriting, and lots of reading!) I’m so glad I went with it and we love the flexibility of stretching a week into 2 weeks, or skipping around if we want. Highly recommend!

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