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INTRODUCTION: LET'S GET STARTED! 5
Exploring Nature in Winter e-Workshop
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0-1: Welcome! Important Things to KnowLecture1.1
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0-2: A Note From Victoria 30 minLecture1.2
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0-3: Key Reflective Questions 30 minLecture1.3
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0-4: Set Goals for You and Your Winter Program 30 minLecture1.4
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0-5: Become a “Winterscape” ResearcherLecture1.5
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Module 1: PREPARE & PLAN TO TEACH OUTDOORS IN WINTER 6
10 Nature-Based Activities
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1-1: Begin with Proper Outer Gear 30 minLecture2.1
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1-2: Discover Your Winter Teaching Routines Outdoors 30 minLecture2.2
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1-3: Make a Winter Garden Journal 30 minLecture2.3
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1-4: Create a Winter Themed Children’s Library 30 minLecture2.4
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1-5: Enjoy Wet Cold Weather OutdoorsLecture2.5
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1-6: LIVE SESSION: Natural Learning Outdoors in WinterLecture2.6
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Module 2: WINTER INSPIRED TEACHING AND LEARNING 6
10 Nature-Based Activities
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2-1: Transform Your Cold Weather Outdoor Classroom 30 minLecture3.1
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2-2: Let’s Play! 10 Nature-Based Winter Activities 30 minLecture3.2
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2-3: Behind the Scenes with Nicole Pelletier 30 minLecture3.3
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2-4: LIVE SESSIONS 30 minLecture3.4
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2-5: Inspire Outdoor Play & Learning in WinterLecture3.5
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2-6: Explore The Four Types of Gardens in WinterLecture3.6
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Module 3: YOUR COLD WEATHER OUTDOOR CLASSROOM 6
Winter Themed Children's Books
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3-1: Explore Water Research in Cold Weather 30 minLecture4.1
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3-2: Let’s Play! Ten Nature-Based Winter Activities 30 minLecture4.2
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3-3: Behind the Scenes with Peter Dargatz 30 minLecture4.3
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3-4: Establish “Moments of Science” in Winter 30 minLecture4.4
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3-5: Stay Outside LongerLecture4.5
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3-6: LIVE SESSIONLecture4.6
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Module 4: COLLABORATION & EMERGENT WINTER CURRICULA 6
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4-1: Learn through Reflection 30 minLecture5.1
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4-2: Let’s Play! Ten Nature-Based Winter Activities 30 minLecture5.2
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4-3: Build Collaboration Skills 30 minLecture5.3
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4-4: LIVE SESSION 30 minLecture5.4
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4-5: Emergent Curriculum with Megan GesslerLecture5.5
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BONUS: LIVE SESSION for GraduatesLecture5.6
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23 Comments
Great idea – I love watercolor paper, too. Nice and sturdy. But I might use old file folders (laminated?) for front/back covers. Love the stick.
Awesome! Let us know how it comes out.
Thank you for this cute idea to make a Nature Journal! This stick makes it very special!
You are most welcome! Can’t wait to see pictures.
This is adorable! I love this idea and I am so excited to try it out with the children. Thank you, Victoria!
This project has been a hit. Let us know how your group likes it.
I love the look of a handmade journal. I love the feel of a brown paper cover over smooth, crisp white paper. I love the sound of painted pages turning. But in reality, it is just too much for us. Twice last year, I began the process of making nature journals and twice, they were not completed or used. By the time I pulled then out, the kids couldn’t even remember what they had painted. So now, I stock up on journals at Target ($3 for 8), and we are good to go!
I absolutely love the lead up to this and admire how you have come to terms with your relationship with journals. Bravo!
What a difference a year makes! I now have an early writer in the family and a budding artist–so our nature journals are always with us! I also took this project mobile last year as an activity to kick off our late winter/early spring season of my outdoor playgroup.
I am really enjoying how you are comparing all the growth happening in a year…both you, your program and your kids. So awesome!
I absolutely love this and am beyond excited to make my own prototype this evening with my girls at home! (which is kind of extra awesome, as our oldest is actually one of my students at school also!!) This is going to help me achieve one of my goals of journaling more! I do think I’m going to use all watercolor paper for ours so they’re nice and sturdy. I can see these as fantastic Mother’s Day gifts for Mama’s! What better than a journal made by your little lovie (I plan to let them select their own sticks, too!) that’s entirely filled with their own art inspired by their exploration outside at school. I can’t wait! Thank you so much!
So thrilled you love this idea. I had so much fun doing it too. What a great idea to use them as Mother’s day gifts!!! Can add a packet of seeds or something. How fun!
I love journals. Such a nice way to capture and record all sorts of things. I love this simple way the children can create their own journal.
It is easy to buy one, but how unique and personal for each to make their own. Even I will be making one! Thanks for the info!
I love working with the children as they create books and journals! We will be working on our bird journals tomorrow.
YEA! Can’t wait to hear more about how it goes.
I LOVE this! We’ve been making a lot of homemade books here since my preschooler took an interest in illustrating and “writing” many, many books. The early authorship phase of preschoolers has always been one of my favorite, but it can also be a little rough on the budget and the tree population once they get into it, so we use a lot of upcycled artwork and recycled paper. I made my own nature journal this morning but plan to take some tabletop easels, watercolors, brushes and watercolor paper outside this afternoon with my sons so they can create their own covers and pick a stick. Victoria, I’m so curious what kind of watercolors you were holding up in the video? Sorry for the silly question!
Oh my goodness….early literacy with young children is a favorite time of mine too! I have piles of little journals from when my children were young. So much fun! A savory moment. Yes…not a silly question at all. I should have given the information in the video. The watercolors are wonderful! Here is the link https://www.amazon.com/Pelikan-Opaque-Watercolor-Chinese-720862/dp/B00170ZSLS
We bought them and they are AMAZING! My younger one is always eager to paint but my older one usually favors the opportunity to watch the brush water change colors with watercolor paints than to interrupt that experiment and put any color on his paper. He even fell in love with the way the colors blend and brighten as they’re layered onto watercolor paper.
It’s amazing where are can take a child…and even us adults. Beautiful work you doing with your children. They are very lucky!
Thank you so much for this great idea! I hope you don’t mind Victoria, but I am adding a link for instructions for a very similar journal (shared with permission from website) that uses a rubber band instead of twine. Although I hate the idea of substituting rubber for natural fiber most of our younger children don’t know how to tie. They should be able to do this exercise without too much help from an adult (if that’s the angle you’re looking for)! I hope this is helpful 🙂
http://www.makingbooks.com/elastic.pdf
Wonderful! Wonderful! I too have seen it done with a rubber band. Love that you added a link! Sharing information is what it’s all about! Let the seeds of inspiration go! 🙂
This is a nice way to have the children create it by themselves.(since they cannot tie yet) Thanks for the resource.
what A beautiful idea! thank you for sharing! I made something similar with my son at the wenham train museum and he LOVED this!!!!