My Nature Journal - Softcover

Olmstead, Adrienne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967245915 ISBN 13: 9780967245911

Publisher: Pajaro, 1999

Synopsis

My Nature Journal is a unique keepsake journal specifically designed to help children build a lasting personal connection to nature.

This book is interactive, creative and fun! It offers a blend of exploration, discovery and reflective activities that help kids understand and appreciate nature.

Children, parents and educators will all enjoy using My Nature Journal. It's a wonderful way to spend quality time together in nature. For ages 8+

About this title

About the Author

Adrienne Olmstead developed a connection to nature at an early age. Her childhood summers were spent exploring meadows, forests and streams. Her love of nature inspired her to attend the University of California, Santa Cruz where she received a degree in Environmental Studies.

After college, Adrienne worked as a naturalist in several outdoor schols and was director of the Environmental Education Center at Point Reyes National Seashore. She began creating nature journals when she was hired by a water agency to build an education program about the Russian River watershed in California. The journal component of that program was so successful that she decided to design a book -- My Nature Journal -- that kids can use across the country.

Review

"My Nature Journal is a marvelous tool for discovering nature. Informative, as well as fun, children will enjoy using it." -- Joseph Cornell, nature educator and author of Sharing Nature With Children

"My Nature Journal is a masterpiece incorporating nature awareness, observation, listening, writing and creative skills in one keepsake journal." -- Pat Kinderman

"My Nature Journal is a wonderful beginning journal for budding young naturalists! The activities are fun, creative, meaningful and simple to do." -- Nicole Danielson, Children's Progam Coordinator, Audubon Naturalist Society

Adrienne Olmstead's My Nature Journal: A Personal Nature Guide For Young People showcases 176 pages of nature activities designed for children ages 8 to 14 and is divided into sections covering woodlands, meadows, ponds and streams, seashore, and twilight. Children will observe, participate, sketch, count, reflect, and write about nature. Along the way they'll also learn a great deal about themselves. Safety cautions and a glossary enhance a superb text that is exceptionally presented along with highlighting illustrations. My Nature Journal: A Personal Nature Guide For Young People is a "consumable" and will make a superb keepsake long after the child has completed all the exercises and activities presented. Highly recommended. (Children's Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
(January, 2000)) -- Children's Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
(January, 2000)

This may be the most important book review I ever write; it may be the most important one you ever read, its about you, your children and your family.

We all want our kids to grow up to appreciate the things in the outdoors we have found. We would like to give them the same feeling of stewardship and oneness so important to all of us.

Much is written about family these days and doing things for the kids. My Nature Journal can open the door and give them a head start toward a greater understanding of what you would like for them. It is a journal, not just a book. It is an interactive tool which will entice your child, (or grandchild) to investigate things outdoors. It will poke, probe, stimulate, and keep them interested and involved for many years.

I personally highly recommend the book. In my opinion My Nature Journal is the first real tool to help start and encourage children to have interest and a high regard for the outdoors and all it can mean. -- Flyanglersonline.com, January 24, 2000

Where do fallen leaves go? What lives in tide pools How many mosquitoes can a bat eat in an hour?

For many children these answers are learned in the classroom or from television. Nature and Discovery are shows to watch, not things to go and see.

Environmental educator and naturalist Adrienne Olmstead wanted to see that change. Her recent publication, "My Nature Journal", invites children to participate in their natural surroundings. Olmstead believes theres no substitute for experiencing creepy, crawly, slimy things in ones own backyard.

"When exposed to the natural world, children open up their curiosity, intelligence and fascination," she said.

The 176-page book is designed for children ages 8 and up to observe, participate, sketch, count, reflect and write about nature and themselves.

"Journals are a wonderful way to get children to focus," said Olmstead. "Children take a real ownership in their journals. It gets very personal for them." -- Environmental News Network, December, 1999

Edition details

• Publisher: Pajaro
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0967245915
• ISBN 13: 9780967245911
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 173