Nature Journals
Apr 24th, 2006 by lapazfarm
Every nature journal is different, reflecting the interests, talents, and abilities of the author. I thought I’d share a little of how we do ours.
First of all, I should warn you, my pages are all different and the style and medium in which they are done reflect my mood at the time. Some of them have content that I have already shared on my blog, and some I have not shared until now!
Anyway, here they are!
Some are traditional drawings of nature scenes.
Some are of man-made places within nature, as this sketch of Mingus Mill in the Great Smokies Park:
Some are a combination of media with digital photos, pen-and-sketches, and watercolor pencil drawings:
Some are simple:
Some are unfinished and I’ll add to them as I go along:
And some are experimental!
But all of them are uniquely ME!
Now I’ll share some of Superboy’s journal entries:
Some of his pages are strikingly similar to my own:
but they reflect his own special view:
We really enjoyed experimenting with watercolors in our journal on St. Patrick’s day!
Superboy also adds in experiments and nature activities he has done, like this nature scavenger hunt I made up for him (only part of which is shown here):
And his toad tadpole observations:
Hermit crabs: we spent some time on them when we read-aloud the book Pagoo:
Superboy’s:
Mine:
Here are some pages from my 4 yo JBug’s journal:a combination of outdoors sketches, coloring pages, and other things:
Hermit crabs studied through a read-aloud of the book Pagoo, by Holling C Holling.
Here are the first pages from our stream study-Stream maps:
Superboy’s:
Mine:
JBug’s:
I would love to see how you all do nature journals!
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5 Responses to “Nature Journals”
Ooooh, so beautiful! And so inspiring…
Wow! I absolutely love these photos! Your family excels at nature journaling!! I’m beyond impressed and inspired.
Julie
Yes this is what my children should be doing ! lol
I think that cable is gonna be cut off soon
what books do your children like to journal in mostly ?
I mean the type of paer , type of book etc.
how about materials ? pencils etc.
Thanks again .
I’ve a feeling I might be commenting on every entry I look at lol
Much Love , Roxie
Hi Roxie!
Gee, I just realized I haven’t updated this page in ages!I need to get some new stuff up.
Superboy has a spiral-bound hard cover blank book (9X12) he uses and JBug now has a spiral bound small blank journal from Miichelle’s Family Centered press.
We mostly just use pencil, but sometimes spice it up with other stuff. Superboy likes to keep his fairly simple but JBug likes color.
Oh, and we don’t do TV at all. I think it really helps.
I just came across this “old” post of yours, too, while searching for homeschool nature journals. We just started ours last week and I’m glad to have finally started! We’re still trying to figure our what “our” method will be. Thanks for sharing these photos. I’d love to see some more!
And, hmmm…. your comment about no TV makes me think again. You all get so much done and I’m sure this is one of the reasons!!!
As always, your blogging encourages me to get up and do something!