Let’s play and learn in nature guided by A Field Guide to Summer. Inspired by the Forest School, this is a helpful resource to throw into your bag as you head outside to explore. Filled with full-color, engaging, whimsical illustrations children will be captivated by again and again. Each page shares with learners’ ideas to experience the world around them during the sweltering summer months. Activities include crafting a flower crown, making bark rubbings, learning the Japanese printing technique of Hapa Zome, how to cool down when it is very hot, and so much more! There are perfect prompts and questions to ask young children and for older children they could start working on their own Nature Journal! Wonderful little poems to read aloud are scattered throughout. Kids will love identifying wildflowers, learning about honeybees, answering questions like why do butterflies love flowers or what can you spy in the sky? The activities also include finding everything on a summer treasure hunt! A great Summer Glossary is found in the back to encourage word development along with a Fields Notes section to guide a Nature Journal time. 64 pages, hardcover. ~Rebecca
Field Guide to Summmer
SKU
051740
ISBN
9780500653531
Grade PK-3
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Product Overview
- Learn all about Summer by spending time in the wild engaging all your senses!
- Turn everyday outdoor time into an interactive, educational, nature walk
- Use these resources year after year for fun seasonal exploration
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Publisher's Description of Field Guide to Summmer
The third title in the charming series inspired by the Forest School movement, teaching young children how to engage with nature from season to season.
A Field Guide to Summer is a pocket-sized introduction to the summer season. Building on children's natural curiosity about the world around them, this book aims to establish a connection with nature at an early age that will go on to last a lifetime!
Hunt for bugs, build your own sundial, identify different trees, and make your own flower crown. Discover how caterpillars transform into butterflies and why bees are so busy in summertime.
This book features lyrical poems, hands-on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages to help children find different animals and plants. Whether a child’s access to nature is in the form of an urban park, a private garden, a field, or a forest, there is so much to discover and experience.
A Field Guide to Summer is a pocket-sized introduction to the summer season. Building on children's natural curiosity about the world around them, this book aims to establish a connection with nature at an early age that will go on to last a lifetime!
Hunt for bugs, build your own sundial, identify different trees, and make your own flower crown. Discover how caterpillars transform into butterflies and why bees are so busy in summertime.
This book features lyrical poems, hands-on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages to help children find different animals and plants. Whether a child’s access to nature is in the form of an urban park, a private garden, a field, or a forest, there is so much to discover and experience.
Category Description for A Field Guide to ____ : Play and Learn in Nature Field Guides
Watch your children become best friends with nature in every season with the Field Guide to series. An interactive way for children to play and learn in nature guided by beautiful illustrations and short facts over seasonal observations. Each book is packed with hands-on activities, poems, fun facts, and guidance to take full advantage of your outdoor exploration, no matter the time of year. Keep your kids engaged, curious, and connected with nature through simple and creative avenues like what does mud feel like, how many different colors of leaves do you see, does the new snow taste cold and refreshing? Taking a 3-step approach to a nature study by being Curious, Creative, and Kind, kids will find all sorts of ways to connect with and experience nature. Suitable for young and older students, there is enough guidance to keep kids engaged in the changing world around them. ~Rebecca
Details
| Product Format: | Hardcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | PK-3 |
| Brand: | Thames & Hudson |
| ISBN: | 9780500653531 |
| Length in Inches: | 8.875 |
| Width in Inches: | 6.125 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.6 |
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