Write each new word on an index card and review the stack occasionally. Introduce a new nature vocabulary word or two during each session. *** Fandex Field Guides could be used as flashcards or taken apart to use in sorting activities, too. Additionally, you can sort (categorize) the images into groups – which could also be graphed.įor some of the suggested games above – like memory, you might need more than one set of cards if duplicates aren’t already included. These fun identification ideas utilize Google searches or prepared nature flashcards (seen below.) While you can certainly use the images for flashcard drills, you can also play matching games, memory games and go-fish style games. There are so many nature items that would be nice to identify by sight when in the field. Whether it’s a wonderful picture book, a chapter from a Christian Liberty Nature Reader, a chapter from a Thornton Burgess book, or another chapter book, living literature is never a waste of time – and sharing a book together is a great circle time activity. This is a great activity to do before an upcoming nature walk where you’ll be observing something specific – or after you’ve been on a nature walk and need to learn more about something you observed. Mom can read aloud or kids can pre-read and teach facts to the rest of the family. Take just a few minutes to learn about one new thing from a field guide or the Handbook of Nature Study.

Challenge everyone to use various sources (field guides or the internet) to be the first to identify the item.As everyone observes, someone reads about the item from a field guide (or another source.).

Take turns observing the item (with the naked eye or with a magnifying glass) and discuss the observations as a group.

Label parts and/or write a sentence or two about the item.

Everyone sketches the item in a nature notebook.

It’s easy and versatile! Place a simple object from nature in the middle of your table (or circle) for all to see.

This is the nature activity you’ll find us most frequently using during morning time.

Lucy hammet's nature bingo