I have to say I am pretty excited about this week’s giveaways for Friday, June 17th – Thursday, June 23rd. It is all about Nature Study and some sweet discounts! Therefore, this post is going to be short and sweet. Here is the giveaway and entry form and a rundown of the birthday discounts!
Giveaway #3
Giveaway #3 is a special Nature Study Bundle, which includes Exploring Nature with Children: A Complete Year-Long Curriculum, by Lynn Seddon + A set of 12 PrismaColor Pencils! Here is an excerpt from a review I wrote about her curriculum.
“Lynn Seddon’s new Nature Study Curriculum, ‘Exploring Nature with Children: A Complete Year-Long Curriculum.‘ is quickly becoming one of my favorite nature study resources. I think a big part of it is that I know she has lived this out. She wrote a guest post for me about a year ago about ‘Playing with Watercolors and blogs at Raising Little Shoots, where she regularly posts pictures of her children walking about in England, where they live, exploring nature, discovering new delights, and responding beautifully with skilled paintings and notebook entries. I see the joy on her children’s faces with each one of their discoveries. It is beautiful, but it is also real, as all beautiful things are.” (A snippet from my ‘Exploring Nature with Children’ review.)
Lynn has also offered a special discount on her curriculum from now until the end of June for Expanding Wisdom readers! Just use the coupon code ‘SECONDBIRTHDAY’ in her shop at checkout! This coupon is good through the end of June!
Special EW Discounts for Summer Learning
This week only the Expanding Wisdom shop is 50% off. Each of you can receive 50% off any 1 item from our shop! Use the coupon code ‘birthday50’ at checkout! This coupon is good through Thursday, June 23rd, 2016.
Thank you for celebrating with us. Much love and blessings to you and your family this week.
Expanding wisdom, extending grace,
Jennifer Dow
We love nature study! Our favorite nature study was this winter studying the birds. We just hung feeders out and observed. Every time we saw a new bird we would look it up in our field guide. We also read the Burgess bird book. It was easy, fun and we learned a lot.
We love finding butterflies and moths! Just today we found an injured Luna Moth.
I love my husband’s watercolor paintings when we do nature study. So, he patiently is teaching me and the kids some tips. Flowers are my favorite to identify and draw.
That sounds so fun. I need to add more formal nature study to our day.
We are just starting out with nature study. It’s easy for my son, but hard for me 😉
We have been trying to incorporate nature study but I haven’t been consistent, this book looks fabulous and I like daily layout.
Would live to make nature study a weekly occurrence
My favorite nature study experience was coming upon an alligator sunning itself on a log at our local wildlife refuge. We were able to sit down and sketch at leisure. And there were beautiful water hyacinths blooming everywhere, so we took some blooms and pressed them in our nature notebooks.
Thanks for the giveaway and discount.
My kids already love to soak in the natural world around them, I would love to be able to help guide them into a deeper study!
We love Nature Study and I wish I could get more organized with it. We come alive when in nature. We need to spend more time in it.
I saw a turtle in our yard, caught it, and brought it to my boys to observe.
The ocean and beach has been our fav nature study so far!
We are new to nature study! I would love to learn how to create a more beautiful and organized nature journal. Thank you for the giveaway!
This is such a great giveaway! I have always wanted to do one.
My kids spend a lot of time outside exploring and playing but u have not managed to make the shift to formalising it in anyway, I think this would help with that!
I can honestly say that nature is a deficit of mine, but knowing it’s value I have been overcoming it with my kids. My kids are helping me appreciate it’s beauty.
We have yet to do any formal nature study, but after learning more about it at the Homeschooling from Rest retreat, I’m excited to jump into it this coming year!
We just spent the morning at a waterfall looking at crawdads and frogs. We love being outside and observing the changes that occur with the passing of time.
I’ve been very curious about this nature study curriculum. I’d love to win it in celebration of your 2nd anniversary.
I haven’t had experience with Nature study before, but would be interested in learning about how it is used on a day to day basis with the kids. I loved nature walks as a child. My 3rd grade teacher would take us on one every week. So much exploring and seeing neat things as a kid. Thanks for the opportunity!
We are trying to be more intentional with going outside and doing a nature study.
We love going on nature walks! And I found a trick! I find for my boys, it works best taking a picture while on the walk then when we get home we sketch then! I have copy of Lynn’s book already and it’s a very good!
My 9 year old daughter and I love being outside together and exploring, but we haven’t started a proper nature study unit together. Would love to learn how to identify birds, trees, flowers, etc.
I would like to do a nature study on the birds we see at our backyard feeder.
My favorite part of nature study is inspiring curiosity in my children. You can’t go out in nature and NOT learn something new.
We have a great backyard for nature study, and I am looking forward to using this curriculum.
We don’t have any experience with doing a formal nature study. I would love to learn more!
Looking forward to beginning nature study next year. It has always been the thing that got bumped… Maybe this is just the guidance we need!
My favorite thing about nature study is taking the time to slow down and just ‘see’ and marvel at God’s creation.
One of our favorite places to hike are the Flint Hills. They are beautiful no matter what season and so many things to see and study. If you are lucky you can see the buffalo grazing.
My preschooler and I are just beginning to embark on nature study and are looking for tips on nature journaling. This curriculum looks great!
Perfect prize for summer nature studies!
Our most recent successful nature study was when my daughter found a praying mantis that had found it’s way into our pool. After rescuing, we studied him and then let him go in the garden to feast on our aphids. We did see him fly away so we knew he was okay. It made my daughter’s day. I have seen some of Lynn’s journal entries. They are so lovely. I can only hope to nature journal like that one day.
I get overwhelmed just thinking about nature study… where to even start?? But my favourite part, even with just beginning, is seeing the marvellous array of God’s creativity!
Nature study is the area in which I most want to grow. I feel like I’m doing fairly well in other areas, but lacking the most in the area of nature study. We do sketch from our nature guides and I had even set aside Friday afternoons to go on nature walks. But looking back, those nature walks rarely occurred. That appointed time was often filled with catch up work or just life stuff. I think I need to build in more buffer time & protect that time set aside for nature study. But I also would greatly benefit with some sort of guide.
My favorite nature study experience was buying some caterpillars and observing them until they were butterflies. Then we released them.
Love this giveaway, thank you! Nature study is one of our favorite subject.
We lived in a country setting, idyllic, for nature study and I didn’t have to think too hard about it or try at all-I just bought a bunch of field guides, a journal for each, watercolor pencils and we had a good time. Now, however, we have moved into a suburb and I am going to have to be intentional. I am not sure how to do this! 🙂
We are fairly new to homeschooling and will be incorporating lots of nature study in our first year.
I stink at making nature study happen. I think it’s because I don’t love it. But I really do love to spend time outdoors observing. I juat find it impossible to do with my kids around making a ruckus, wanting snacks or a bathroom…
We had an unexpected interaction with a very large ant this evening…we stopped to look at him and he stopped to look at us before racing away.
I think that nature study is such a wonderful treasure. I am constantly in awe of the myriad of wonders to be found right in my own suburban backyard! God is good!
We haven’t officially started nature study yet, but my favorite nature-y moment with my four year old was when he watched (and helped) us plant some grass seed in our yard. Right after we finished, a cloud opened up and drenched the ground. The storm passed quickly, and my four year old looked out the window expectantly, because he know the water would feed the grass. He was so perplexed that the grass hadn’t grown yet, less than two hours later!
Thanks for encouraging this area of study.
This sounds oh so lovely. I would love to explore it in our schooling this year.
We are just getting started with Nature Study. My children are loving it, while I’m feeling a little intimidated by it all. So far they have loved a thing to do,with flowers.
Watching birds has been a favorite in our family. And looking for wildflowers with Grandpa on hiking trips.
I am glad for the children to learn attentiveness and alone-ness.
My boys love to simply lie in the grass, simply watching the tiny kingdom of insect life go about its business. Being at eye level is captivating, and what they see makes its way into their artwork, story-telling, and playtime.
My favourite nature study memory is a particular nature walk our family went on, exploring a bit off the trail and discovering bird’s eggs, snakes, and beautiful wildflowers.
I’ve been curious about Exploring Nature with Children since I first saw it a few months ago, and was wondering how it would work in a co-op type setting. I’d love to win and and give it a try with our group!
I love being outside and immersed in nature. It played a major role in drawing me into a knowledge of who God is. The sheer scope and beauty of His creation, from the tiniest particles to the greatest sweeping vistas, it seems impossible not to acknowledge the Architect of it all. I’m looking forward to spending more time with nature studies in the next few years.
I would like to learn some organization tips and schedules for nature study. It seems so random and free (which is great!), but I am a record-keeping-needing kind of mama!
I just stumbled upon this blog as I was looking into the “Exploring Nature with Children” guidebook. I love this idea as nature study has been special to me since I was a kid. Now with my own kids, we enjoy doing nature scavenger hunts together on hikes or camping. The hunts can be varied and include colors, sounds, textures, different sizes and many opportunities to use our imaginations!