Want to get your kids outdoors and connecting with nature?
These books make it easy!
A forest classroom is a place of adventure, discovery, and imagination. It can also be a wonderful place to learn about math and science, explore art and crafts, and develop language and social skills.
These practical books will show you how to engage your children in fun and educational forest-school activities.
Suitable for forest school leaders, teachers, and parents with children aged 4 to 10, to learn in a forest, school nature area, local park or your own backyard.
Written by Cathy James, B.A. (Hons), the author of The Garden Classroom.
Nature Explorers: Forest interactive nature journal
A NurtureStore bestseller, this best-selling ebook is a wonderful bridge between the traditional and the outdoor classroom.
Nature Explorers: Forest is the perfect way to add reading, writing, drawing and science to your forest adventures. Full of beautifully illustrated pages, this interactive nature journal will guide your children to create a unique science book about their own forest.
Your children will love learning the amazing animal facts, drawing, and playing with the animal cut-out models, while you will know the important early academics of reading fluency, comprehension, expanding vocabulary and writing skills are being developed alongside science, geography and art knowledge.
For ages 5 – 12. See more details here or go ahead and buy the books now.
You can buy just Nature Explorers: Forest journal for $19.99 or get if for half-price when you buy the Forest Bundle. Our best-selling Forest Bundle gives you both The Forest Classroom: a beginner’s guide to forest school and Nature Explorers: Forest science nature journal for the discount combined price of $39.99 $29.98 = you save $10!
The Forest Classroom: a beginner’s guide to forest school
The perfect accompaniment to Nature Explorers: Forest, this ebook gives you 40+ ready-made forest school lesson plans and activities that make it easy for you to run your forest classroom sessions. It includes a guide on how to structure your forest classroom sessions plus a wide variety to easy-to-implement, engaging activities that you can use with your children to explore the breadth of the traditional curriculum.
The book is accompanied by a printables folder, full of practical forest school printable sets. You can take these brilliant resources to the forest with you and they’ll make it easy for you to run your activities, providing guides, prompts and learning materials to share with your children.
For ages 4 – 12. See more details here or go ahead and buy the books now.
You can buy just The Forest Classroom for $19.99 or get if for half-price when you buy the Forest Bundle. Our best-selling Forest Bundle gives you both The Forest Classroom: a beginner’s guide to forest school and Nature Explorers: Forest science nature journal for the discount combined price of $39.99 $29.98 = you save $10!
What’s in The Forest Classroom: a beginner’s guide to forest school?
- A beginner’s guide to forest school so you can easily get outdoors and begin teaching
- A forest school planner to get you organised and a useful guide to help you structure your sessions
- 40+ lesson plans for activities that you can combine to suit your needs
- 16 sets of printable lesson aides that make it so easy to run your sessions
- For ages 4 – 12
- Adaptable to your setting
The Forest Classroom begins by guiding you through how to structure your forest classroom sessions. You’ll learn how to open your sessions, make everyone feel welcome, and set the tone for learning in this special classroom.
The activities work with children of all ages but are created with children aged four to twelve in mind. You can use them wherever you have access to nature, be that a forest, school nature area, a local park or your own back yard.
The book is filled with a wide variety of easy-to-implement, engaging activities that you can use with your children to explore the breadth of the traditional curriculum. You can add any combination of these activities to your provision, to suit the interests of your children, the time of year, and your timetable.
- For science: you’ll find plant ID guides, food chain lessons, and cloud investigations
- For language skills: try story stones and natural journaling
- For math: there’s a variety of hands-on, forest-themed math activities
- For art and crafts: use the forest materials to create leaf crowns, clay faces, and twig weaving
- For food: foraging guides and campfire food recipes
- For wellbeing: sit spots activities and forest mandalas to find the calm, quite connections within yourself and this remarkable place
Bonus printables include:
- Lesson Planner
- Welcome Song poster
- Farewell Song poster
- Journal Pages for writing and sketching
- Foraging guides including wild garlic, elderberry, blackberry and hawthorn
- Parts of a Tree set
- Tree ID set
- Cloud ID set
- Forest Food Chains set
- Forest Treasure Hunt
- Leaf Letters
- Leaf Numbers
- Nature Colour Wheel
You can buy just The Forest Classroom for $19.99 or get if for half-price when you buy the Forest Bundle. Our best-selling Forest Bundle gives you both The Forest Classroom: a beginner’s guide to forest school and Nature Explorers: Forest science nature journal for the discount combined price of $39.99 $29.98 = you save $10!
What’s in the Nature Explorers: Forest interactive nature journal?
- A perfect partner to The Forest Classroom and an excellent bridge between learning outdoors and the traditional classroom skills-building of reading, writing, drawing and science
- 35+ printable pages guide your children to create their own science book
- Plus: two sets of Animal Cut-Outs models to colour, use as displays or play with: forest animals and bugs!
- Learn about biomes, forests, trees, animals, plants, food chains and more
- For ages 5 – 12
Every page of the Nature Explorers journal gives your children something interesting to read, draw, colour, write or make. You can use the whole book (in the given order or mix-and-match to suit you) alongside your time outdoors and know your children are developing their reading and writing fluency and their science knowledge, while still spending a childhood outdoors in the fresh air.
The journal uses a clear font for easy reading and black and white colours for easy printing. Buy one and you can print as many copies as you need for all your children – the whole book or individual pages – making it an affordable resource you can use time and time again.
And your kids will love the two sets of animal cut-out models that are included: forest animals and bugs! They can colour them in, cut them out, and easily assemble them for play or to create model forest dioramas.
- Guided journal pages with question prompts and invitations to colour the beautiful, realistic animal illustrations which have been hand-drawn especially for Nature Explorers by artist Ruth Toner.
- Plenty of space included for your children to add their own sketches, drawings, notes and writing, so they can create their own science book, based around their favourite animals and your local forest.
- Explorer Field Notes pages which can be taken out with you as you go on a nature walk or spend time outdoors and are where your children can write notes and draw sketches of what they see.
- Forest Report pages to research and write up what they have learned and to build their own science book.
- Special animal feature pages, activity ideas, and art projects to try in the forest
- Quizzes and questions to consolidate your children’s learning and prompt discussion
Bonus printables include:
- A range of animal feature pages to read, learn amazing facts, colour in, and add your own illustrations including brown bears, woodlice, great spotted woodpeckers, tawny owls, red foxes, red deer, grey wolves, Eaters Grey Squirrels and Siberian tigers
- Explorer Field Notes pages to complete at home, in class or out in the forest to record your explorations
- Forest Report pages to write and draw reports to build your own science book
- Information and activity pages including : What is a biome? where are the forest biomes?, what is a tree?, what is a food chain?, animal homes, building dens, bugs that live near me, building bug hotels, sit spot observations, and forest vocabulary glossary
- Foraging guides including wild garlic, elderberry, blackberry, and hawthorn
- A set of animal cards to colour, collect and play with
- Owl, snail and tree templates for art projects including forest printmaking and collage art
- Quiz and question pages to recap your knowledge, add your own questions to, and to test others!
- PLUS: collect the first two Nature Explorers Animal Cut-outs models: forest animals and bugs! Colour in, cut out and use your models for play, small worlds, and diorama displays.
You can buy just Nature Explorers: Forest for $19.99 or get if for half-price when you buy the Forest Bundle. Our best-selling Forest Bundle gives you both The Forest Classroom: a beginner’s guide to forest school and Nature Explorers: Forest science nature journal for the discount combined price of $39.99 $29.98 = you save $10!
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