Your teaching fairy godmother has worked her magic again. Here are over fifty ready-made thematic units, with lesson plans, activities, and printables, all planned and prepped for you. Grab and go!
Welcome to five days of learning using small worlds. Use these ideas with your children to develop a wonderful, in-depth week of imaginative, language-rich play.
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.
A NurtureStore bestseller, 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!
The perfect accompaniment to The Forest Classroom, 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 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.
Bonus printables include:
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!
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.
Bonus printables include:
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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Welcome to our puppet unit lesson plans. Over five days we’re boosting language, storytelling, and creative skills as we make puppets, a set and props to host our own puppet show.
NurtureStore hosts regular themed weeks of creative learning activities, giving you ideas, lesson plans, and printables all year round.
This week our focus is on puppets, which is such a wonderful theme for children to explore. Puppets are so versatile: they can be made from almost anything and used to develop many skills and interests.
Welcome to our fractions unit lesson plans. Over five days we’re learning about fractions through math, art, jigsaws, and pizza!
Welcome to our bees and sunflowers unit lesson plan. Over five days we’ll use this nature theme to explore science, art, craft, literacy, poetry, math and fine motor skills.
