Nature Books

We just talked about insects in our Terrific Tuesday class recently. There's a new book by Jim Arnosky, Creep and Flutter, that I just cataloged.

That got me thinking about authors that are well-known for nature books. Jim Arnosky is a prolific author of nature books.






Nic Bishop also comes to mind...

Nature Explorers

This past Terrific Tuesday we met in the sweltering heat to read stories about nature and then go exploring. We read these books...

We collected treasures in nature and looked at all the colors. The kids got to take home a picture of themselves and a frame to decorate at home with their treasures.

Some other fun and easy ideas: Take masking tape or duct tape and make a bracelet out of it with the sticky part facing out. While you are out exploring, stick your treasures to your bracelet!

Cut out contact paper and have sticky side up. Add your treasures to the paper and then with another piece of contact paper, cover them.

And another easy-peasy idea, of course, is crayon rubbings! Take off the wrapper on a crayon and with a piece of paper, make bark, leaves, etc. rubbings.