Recent Pages from our Nature Journals
"It would be well if all we persons in authority, parents and all who act for parents, could make up our minds that there is no sort of knowledge to be got in these early years so valuable to children as that which they get for themselves of the world they live in. Let them once get in touch with Nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life. We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his 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 Vol 1, pg 60
It's been awhile since we shared our nature journals with you, so we thought we'd make a few slide shows of some of our more recent journal pages.
SLIDE SHOW 1: Click on the picture below to see some journal pages from an 11 year old naturalist.
SLIDE SHOW 2: Click on the next picture to see a different style from a 12 year old.
SLIDE SHOW 3: This one is from my 8 year old.
SLIDE SHOW 4: Here are some recent entries from my 14 year old who has been influenced by the nature writings of Edwin Teale.
I encourage the children to be as accurate as possible and praise their efforts, especially when they have tried so hard to copy what they saw. Sometimes I give them little drawing tips to aide them but we do not use nature study as a time for drawing instruction. I agree with Miss Mason that these areas should be kept separate.
Here are some excellent notes about Nature Study taken directly from Miss Mason's volumes.
It's been awhile since we shared our nature journals with you, so we thought we'd make a few slide shows of some of our more recent journal pages.
SLIDE SHOW 1: Click on the picture below to see some journal pages from an 11 year old naturalist.
SLIDE SHOW 2: Click on the next picture to see a different style from a 12 year old.
SLIDE SHOW 3: This one is from my 8 year old.
SLIDE SHOW 4: Here are some recent entries from my 14 year old who has been influenced by the nature writings of Edwin Teale.
And lastly, inspired by Barb's post at Heart of Harmony, I am sharing a few pages from a nature journal by Yours Truly.
I encourage the children to be as accurate as possible and praise their efforts, especially when they have tried so hard to copy what they saw. Sometimes I give them little drawing tips to aide them but we do not use nature study as a time for drawing instruction. I agree with Miss Mason that these areas should be kept separate.
Here are some excellent notes about Nature Study taken directly from Miss Mason's volumes.
We invite you to view a program that two of my daughters made about the value of nature study over at our literary club blog.
If you have an online nature journal and would like to join the nature journal blog roll, go here for details.
one step at a time...
13 comments:
A big WOW on all of those!
Great job! They were so pleasant to look at, all of them-- really well done.
~Stacy
It is great to see the diffrence between ages, thanks for sharing! We have a page of mine and a page of Riley's up on our blog too! :)
Do you have a "how-to-draw" resource you recommend? I want to give simple, realistic drawing lessons for my 7 year old and 5 year old. Thanks!
Christie
I enjoyed seeing all of the different journals- thanks for sharing!
Dawnelle
Lovely :) Some inspirational pages there!
I share some of mine AGES ago because people always wanted to know how to do it, so this is so nice to see other people's versions... AND their kid's versions!
Thank you for sharing these lovely nature journals. Very inspiring. I need to get out a notebook and bring it with me next time I go to the park.
Beautiful!
It's nice to see the different styles of journaling.
You are quite the artist!
Each one is so beautiful and unique. It's sweet to see each child's individual style.
Thanks lindafay for sharing all the nature journals. I enjoyed viewing them all and got some great ideas to try in our journals.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/harmonyartmom
These are really great journals!! We received many of my husbands grandfathers books and several of the nature books were laid out like this. .. very beautiful..
God bless,
Sallie
Beautiful, Linda!
Thank you so much for sharing these lovely journals.
I visited your nature blog for the first time and it is equally delightful.
Someday when I'm no longer on dial-up, I plan to start a nature blog for my 9yo dd.
Thank you for your recent comment on my blog regarding the praying mantis. I do believe it was a female and after letting her go, I rather regretted that we didn't keep her. We had a much smaller female in the shoe basket by our front door last fall (she stayed for several weeks, was wooed by males, and became quite swollen with eggs), but for some reason she died before she laid her eggs.
I hope you and your children can find either an egg case or a female!
Blessings,
Sarah
Linda Fay!!
I read in your blog about your experience with spending so much time on planning your chldren's lessons and then how your husabnd had pointed out that you were spoon feeding them predigested knowledge.
Did I undersatnd this right? Does this mean that as long as we present good material to our children and show them how to understand and interpret some things, that they will learn to digest the rest?
Do you mean that have to resist the temptation to over explain?
If you don't mind elaborating on these thougths of yours I would be interested.
So if I don't explain every nuance, let say, of a story to them, then they will still have the opportunity of grasping some of it on their own.
SO I don't have to worry when I bump into wonderful lesson plans on Core KNowledge that detail so much that I could be teaching my children, but I don't have time for those lesson plans.
Wow, what fine artists you have! Thanks for visiting my blog and for the kind comment!
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