Nature Journals

I've been wanting to start a nature journal with Elijah. That is so right up his alley. He is all about some nature! Anyway I decided to do a nature journal class at co-op.

Nature Journals are diaries or notebooks recording your findings. It can be as detailed, colorful, and poetic as you desire. Our journals will be a speckling of pictures, notes, and poems we find that fit the season. It will become a record of our discoveries, memories, and an extension of ourselves. We will observe nature and learn to look at the details.

I ordered me the Handbook Of Nature Study by Anna Comstock and just got it in the other day so I spent some time pouring over it. I'm overwhelmed with the book. It is 2 inches thick and 887 pages!

I have also have these two books that will be fun to use with our nature studies.

This next book is from a series of books called One Small Square.

Here is a link to a list of all the books in this series.

http://www.acornnaturalists.com/store/One-Small-Square-Series-C383.aspx

I have three of the books, Woods, Cactus Desert and Seashore, but of course I want all of them,

especially Backyard, Pond, Swamp and Night Sky.

For our nature journals I'm thinking of 3 ring binders with copy paper 3 hole punched and some not punched, card stock, page protectors, zip lock baggies, colored pencils, clip board and a magnifing glass.

Dividers for different sections:
Birds
Amphibians
Reptiles
Mammals
Insects
Invertebrates
Plants
Trees
Flowers
Weather
Rocks/Minerals
Soil
Sky

Here is the cover Elijah and I made for his nature journal! We can't wait to get started.

I'd love to hear from other's who have done nature journals.