An Amazing August with the My Year Nature Journal
The FULL and expanded My Year Nature Journal is Now Available!!!
To celebrate the release of my third picture book, A Year With Mama Earth, I’m creating a nature journal inspired by Rebecca Green’s illustrations and the book’s lyrical text. Be sure to follow my Nature Education Pinterest board for even more resources!
If you haven’t yet started My Year Nature Journal, I strongly recommend card stock for the cover and something heavier than standard copy paper for the internal pages (28lb minimum). Either three-hole-punch and place in a binder or hole punch and hold together with rings. You’ll be adding more pages each month, so be sure your binder has plenty of room! 2” should suffice.
Be sure to add your Month Sticker! Download the printable file at the end of this post.
August Nature Journal
August brings dry grass, sizzling heat, and the first tastes of autumn’s coming bounty. Learn about sun, seasons, shadows, and the water cycle this month with hands-on experiments and art lessons.
A Walk Through August’s Lessons:
This month we look more closely at shadows, the sun, and rocks! I’m a huge rock hound so this video showing how to recreate the rock cycle with jelly beans is super fun.
Shadow art inspiration
Hi Shadow Dance Party
All About Rocks:
Along with your Nature Journal pages, you might enjoy these activities and printables.
Practice classifying rocks using these great tips.
What’s better than a rock you can eat? Make edible igneous rocks using this guide. Or go full circle and eat the rock cycle!
If you’re becoming overrun with rocks, turn those stones into Kindness Rocks to share as gifts.
Plus, learn more about rocks below.
Rockin’ Rocks
Amazing rock formations!
Shadows & Light:
Shadows are everywhere and often go unnoticed. Jump start your senses by making art from shadows made by other objects.
Create your own shadow frame to explore shadow and shape.
Sundial Intel
What makes shadows?
Seasons & the Sun:
Discover more about seasons below.
Enjoy exploring with the recommendations below (affiliate links).
Rocks and fossils kit.
Writer’s Corner:
As summer wanes and we think about another year of school, we do less formal academic work, and more fun exploration. One favorite activity: the Friday Freewrite!
So that’s it. Sit back, download, print. Then *get outside* to enjoy the month while you can. On those yucky days, check out the videos above. And be sure to subscribe so you’ll be first to know when next month’s pages are available.
Subscribe below for all the upcoming Nature Journal printables!
To preview any of these items, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store. You’ll be able to see several pages of each download.
August
Nature Journal pages
Stickers!
Formatted for round Avery labels
I’d love to see some of your finished journal pages! Please send pics to rebeccawritesbooks@gmail.com or mention me @rebeccawritesbooks on IG and use the hashtag #myyearnaturejournal!
My Year Nature Journal gives you 12 full months of nature journal activity and free-creation pages to support your nature/outdoor education. The journal is perfect for fans of Charlotte Mason, Montessori, kinesthetic and hands-on learning, or to simply enhance your enjoyment of the outdoors.