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Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years

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Recommended for: Early Years (PreK-K), Primary Years (K-3rd)

A Year-Long Charlotte Mason and Waldorf-Inspired Seasonal Nature Study for Elementary

Treehouse Nature Study is a seasonal nature study curriculum designed with family-style learning in mind. It is a gentle guide meant to invite various ages to connect with each other and the world around them through living books, nature notebooking, hands-on projects, and beauty subjects such as poetry, picture study, and folk songs. 

From preschool through upper middle school, it appeals to every age and is easily used with multiple ages at the same time. 

It would be a great fit for your preschool or kindergartener’s core curriculum or your whole family’s home education Morning Time and Nature Study. It also provides supplemental work for your children’s language arts through poetry memorization, recitation, copywork, and notebooking.

     

        Nature Study Themes

        Each week of this 52-week guide is focused on a seasonal nature theme. The themes are:
        Autumn

        • Apples
        • Birds of Prey
        • Autumn Equinox
        • Arachnids
        • Fungi
        • Deciduous Trees
        • Moon
        • Pumpkins and Corn
        • Stars
        • Woodland Creatures
        • Tracks and Scat
        • Rocks, Minerals, Fossils
        • Changing Leaves

        Winter

        • Winter Birds
        • Wind
        • Winter Solstice
        • Coniferous Trees
        • Seasons
        • Mountains
        • Animals in Winter
        • Snow and Ice
        • Shadows
        • Nocturnal Animals
        • Maple Sugaring
        • Weather
        • Moss and Lichen

        Spring

        • Seeds and Sprouts
        • Rainbows
        • Spring Equinox
        • Snails and Worms
        • Caterpillars, Moths, and Butterflies
        • Birds
        • Edible Gardening
        • Clouds and Rain
        • Bees
        • Snakes
        • Spring Flowers
        • Insects
        • Pond Life

        Summer

        • Soil and Composting
        • The Sun
        • Summer Solstice
        • Bodies of Water
        • Marine Mammals
        • Sharks and Fish
        • Mollusks and Crustaceans
        • Seashells
        • Summer Flowers
        • Storms
        • Beetles
        • Reptiles
        • Landforms
        Teacher's Guide

        The Treehouse Nature Study Teacher's Guide is an overview with everything you need to guide your children through each day's nature study lesson. Each week of this 52-week study includes a weekly grid with daily lesson instructions making it easy to follow along. Each week has a themed folk song, hand rhyme, poem, and picture study. The daily lesson plans walk you through engaging with these beauty subjects in a new way each day. They also include links to Spotify and YouTube where you can listen to the folk songs together and learn the movements of the week's hand rhyme.

        In addition to the beauty subjects, the teacher's guide includes step-by-step instructions for each week's Nature Connection Activities including recipes, experiments, and handcrafts. There are detailed material lists for each week making it easy to quickly prep for the week's activities.

        At the core of Treehouse Nature Study is a focus on living books. Each week in the Teacher's Guide includes fiction, non-fiction, and reference books that correlate to the week's theme. The guide highlights relevant reference pages from The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock and the books in The Julia Rothman Collection. Your digital purchase of Treehouse Nature Study includes a Master Book List with over 600 books organized by season and theme.

        Student Sheets

        What sets Treehouse Nature Study apart from other studies are the beautiful, vintage illustrations and true-to-life diagrams. The student sheets include folk song lyrics, hand rhyme lyric and motion sheets, poetry and poetry copywork, and classic art picture study sheets. These full-color, high-resolution display sheets feature vintage botanical and nature illustrations including nature anatomy and life cycle posters. In addition, the student sheets offer hands-on activities like 3-part cards, scavenger hunts, investigation worksheets, and more.

        Reference Materials

        It is our desire to makeTreehouse Nature Study as "open and go" as possible. In addition to the Master Book List, your digital purchase also includes mini-biographies of each artist and poet organized by week. The introduction of the Teacher's Guide includes detailed instructions on how to tailor the study to different age groups so you can easily use it with the whole family. In addition, the introduction includes a Picture Study Guide and Nature Study Notebooking Guide to teach you how to guide your children through these activities that may be new to your family.

        Digital Download Details

        This file is a digital download and will be sent to the email address you use to checkout. The curriculum is a compressed .zip file that contains folders for each season with the Teacher Guide, Student Sheets organized by week, and Reference Materials. For best quality print results, I recommend you print using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application.

        Hard Copy Details

        This hard copy curriculum will be professionally printed on a commercial-grade printing press on sturdy 70 lb. weight matte paper. The hard copy includes:

        • 4 Teacher Guides (one for each season), spiral-bound with a glossy cardstock cover.
        • 4 sets of Student Sheets (one for each season), printed single-sided on heavy-weight paper.

        This will guarantee your artwork and display pieces are of the highest quality and can be used for many years. All hard copies will ship in 3-5 business days. You will also receive your digital files right away.

        Format
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years
          Treehouse Nature Study: Four Seasons Collection, Primary Years

          Features

          • Family Style Learning

          • Beauty and Goodness

          • Living Books

          • Hands-On Learning

          From preschool through upper middle school, it appeals to every age and is easily used with multiple ages at the same time.

          Introduce children to the beauty around them and incorporate beauty subjects such as poetry, art study and music.

          Enjoy an extensive booklist of picture books, non-fiction titles, and relevant reference selections from the most popular books for nature study in home education.

          Instead of simply studying nature, immerse your children in it with activities like foraging for mushrooms, nature walks, animal track identification, notebooking and more.

          “Early in our home education I went on a search for a gentle guide to take our family on an educational journey through the seasons. I wanted something that was simple and beautiful and that introduced my children to art, poetry, living books, and nature in an organic way. I couldn't find what I had dreamed up in my head, so instead I developed it. My hope is that Treehouse Nature Study is a tool to truly awaken delight and wonder in your home education.”

          – LYNDSEY, FOUNDER AND AUTHOR OF TREEHOUSE NATURE STUDY

          Try a free week of Treehouse Nature Study

          Get a free week fromTreehouse Nature Study when you join our Treehouse Schoolhouse email community. This free download comes from Spring Week Five: Caterpillars, Moths, and Butterflies.

          Testimonials

          We absolutely love Treehouse Nature Study. Everything has been planned out for you to easily pull out and use each day. There is a rhythm to each day and flow throughout the week. Our young preschool aged children especially love the hand rhymes, listening to the music, and learning hands on with some of the suggested activities.

          Ana

          The hand rhymes & vintage photo studies are a family favorite each week. So excited to continue to use these studies each year & dig deeper, definitely worth the purchase!

          Brittany

          Our lessons are the best part of our day and it's added so much fun to our weekly routine. My kids love the poems and folk songs, I love artist/art study, the illustrations are gorgeous that my children are so drawn to learn more about each subject. I highly recommend this material to anyone who is looking for a beautiful curriculum to add some luster to your homeschool routine!

          Destinie

          Thank you so much Lyndsey for bringing some much needed beauty, peace, and togetherness to our homeschool! This curriculum will serve us for years to come and brings just the right amount of beauty to our day.

          Lindsay

          Absolutely love this curriculum. Having home educated for almost 10 years I've been through my fair share of curriculum. This, hands down, is my favourite. It's simple, inspiring and beautiful.

          Charlene

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          • 4 stars: 9 (3%)
          • 3 stars: 2 (1%)
          • 2 stars: 2 (1%)
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          Dawn T
          Exactly what we needed

          It is hard to find all of these elements actually integrated around a theme: literature, nature, music, poetry, great works of art, and an activity. So impressed with the quality.

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          Emily Dail
          We love this nature study!

          We just finished the Bodies of Water part of the Summer nature study and my kids are loving this! We’re going to the beach soon so we started in the middle of the summer study to learn more about the beach and ocean before we get there. We’re going to end it with the shells activity at the end from shells we collect while at the beach so they’ll create their own memorabilia from their first beach trip. 🥰🐚🦀
          (Also really great that we can take this anywhere. Literally! Took it with us to the dealership and that was my kids’ favorite part of our day lol)

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          Amanda
          Just what we needed

          This nature study was just what my boys and I needed. This is our first year homeschooling and I have a 3rd grader and a 2 year old. I love that we can do this together and it really jump-started my oldest’s interest in learning. We went to the zoo after finishing up the birds of prey week and I’ve never seen my boys so interested in watching birds. So cool. I love the conversations we are having as we study the art and poetry and my 2 year old can’t get enough of the songs and the hand rhymes. I would highly recommend this to everyone!

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          Jordon White
          Beautiful Study and Thoughtfully Put Together

          I love how easily this nature study can be used with books and items we already have along with suggestions of new ones that would coordinate well. I was able to interchange the weeks based on field trips and things we already had planned for the summer.

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          Aga Siódmiak
          Aga

          We are truly amazed. The songs are lovely, my children enjoy the rhymes and all of the activities. Best purchase ever!

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          Laura OsmerDeMuth
          Beautiful Curriculum for Nature Study

          Lovely thoughtful nature study easily added to our day. Love that it references external Nature Study texts like Comstock's.

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          Lauren Ilg
          Beautiful and Engaging

          I am absolutely in love with this nature curriculum! Not only does it offer a beautifully crafted exploration of the natural world, but it also seamlessly integrates language arts, making it an all-in-one resource for my fourth grader. The lessons are thoughtful, thorough, and engaging, providing a perfect balance of academic rigor and hands-on learning. Each day feels like an adventure, and the materials are presented in such a way that it keeps my child’s attention and curiosity sparked throughout. The gorgeous illustrations and well-designed activities are a joy to explore together. It truly makes our homeschool days feel so sweet and rewarding, and I can see my child growing in both their understanding of nature and their language skills. Highly recommend!

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          Gabi Chick
          Beautiful and Masterfully Organized!

          Treehouse Nature Study’s resources are some of the best. I have a 5 year old and nearly 2 year old, and her intermediate nature study provides the perfect mix of fun and solid in depth learning! The art is gorgeous and thrills my own heart; the poems and hands on activities are fun and perfect for kindergarten and early elementary. The books chosen are beautiful and superbly written - no fluff. For their current ages, we actually do 1 week’s worth of the study over two weeks. We have used their Easter study, Autumn, Thanksgiving and will be doing their Christmas and Winter study this upcoming winter.

          Prior to using Treehouse, I was using from another similar curriculum., and I was so impressed with how much richer and yet more approachable Treehouse was. Previously, I had to do much more tweaking of the curriculum for it fit our life. In contrast, Treehouse lays out what you need to do and have on hand in such a simple way, that my prep time is nearly non-existent. The teacher’s guide enabled me to jump right in and successfully attempt things like narration and art study (things I had no exposure to previously). We plan to continue to use this for many years to come, as the material easily enables you to scale up or down for your child’s specific needs. It is well, well worth the cost.

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          Emi Cooper
          Just What We’ve Been Missing

          My children and I absolutely LOVE this nature study program. I’ve been recommending it to everyone I talk to about schooling and homeschooling and parenting. It’s so beautiful and gentle, while adding so many learning opportunities for us. It has seamlessly connected my kids of different ages and abilities. Couldn’t love this more!

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          Amber Newman
          Intermediate Extension Was Just What We Needed!

          We were so excited when the intermediate extension was announced. I can find links for videos and preview them, find more art and poetry, and create science experiments, etc….but those things take TIME! And that’s the one thing we sometimes just don’t have enough of! Thank you THSH for doing the work for us, but also for doing it in such a lovely thorough way! Our whole family is loving all of our THSH curriculum! ❤️

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          Zyra Pajarillo
          Excellent curriculum

          My daughters are 4 and 2. I’m looking for a curriculum that is not formal but will expose them and nurture their curiosity. I’m the non creative mom who doesn’t enjoy outdoors or anything nature but I see the need for my kids to explore the creation. AND this curriculum answers my limitations and the needs of my girls.

          Guide is so easy to follow. Recommended Booklist is excellent! Illustrations are all beautiful.

          Honestly, using this allows us to bond and enjoy our time together.

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          Taylor Walker
          New to homeschooling ❤️

          I have been in public education for 14+ years and this is my first time to homeschool one of my children. I wanted something quick and to the point but also rich and full of information and resource options. This does just that! We’ve explored with the summer nature study so far and he really does love it, so do I! Good job on this, we can’t wait to try the Autumn Nature Study

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          Lindsay Hustedde
          Beautiful Nature Study

          I love how I can decorate my homeschool space with such beautiful pictures and anatomy pages! My kids are learning how to label and practice nature notebooking with this study!

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          Talia Paddock
          What our homeschool days were missing

          My 4 and 6 year old are absolutely loving this - and I am too! Would recommend to everyone!

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          Elizabeth Wolbert
          A curriculum for the year

          I love the way treehouse schoolhouse is so easy to follow guides and how engaging the activities are. My kids always enjoy anything we get from here. So excited to jump in the seasons the rest of the year!!

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          Serena Warren
          LOVING THIS!!!

          We are 3 weeks in to the Autumn study and my 6 and 4 year old daughters are LOVING it. I'm also really enjoying the guide. The recommended books for the week are easily found at our library or YouTube read alouds. We plan to get winter next!

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          Samantha L
          The missing piece

          First time homeschooling this year and the nature study was just what we needed. Based in facts, simple to follow, and engaging for my 3rd grader all the way down to my preschooler. Love it!

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          Kathy
          Excellent

          Love this so much. It has made me excited to homeschool again :-) Perfect for my 3 young boys. Truly a blessing to our family.

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          Keely Hawkins
          Great resource

          Love this! Truly is perfect for multiple ages. My kids are loving it so far :) highly recommend!

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          Amanda Muri
          Love it

          We love this study!

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          Melanie Czekalski
          Beautiful!

          The content is beautiful and thoughtful with excellent themes that keep my kids engaged.