Do You: * Spend your days with children under age 6? * Want to engage young children with the wonders of their natural world? * Need tips and tricks for building your confidence to be outdoors with infants and toddlers? Seek child tested and parent/teacher approved creative activities that capture young children’s attention, teach about nature, and encourage physical and emotional development? If you answered yes, Wonder and Wander is for You! In Wonder and Wander, Kelly Johnson, the author of the award winning book Wings, Worms, and Wonder, returns to offer her creative nature connection experience to those in early childhood. Inside, find 30+ activities, projects, and games, as well as garden and outdoor preparation advice. Discover why nature is so important for childhood development and gather a bounty of tips and tools for: overcoming fear (in the adult and the child), being prepared for storms (both the weather and toddler kind), and creating holistic outdoor experiences that foster young children’s Naturalist Intelligence, motor skills, sense of wonder, independence, resiliency, and love of nature — regardless of prior nature experience. Whether you have a flower pot on a patio or a wilderness out your windowsill, this guide provides the tools for outdoor learning play success — in the backyard or the schoolyard all year round. This book will inspire you to gather the little ones and wander through nature’s wonders everyday!

Wonder and Wander: : An Early Childhood Nature Connection Guide

Education & Teaching

Johnson, Kelly S.

Schools & Teaching

Kelly Johnson

So you have a garden, but now what do you do with it? Peppered with anecdotes and friendly advice, while based in research and experience, Wings, Worms, and Wonder: A Guide for Creatively Integrating Gardening and Outdoor Learning answers this question. Above and beyond gardening guidance on topics such as composting and organic pest control, it gives adults the tools to reconnect themselves and the children in their lives to the natural world through holistic gardening experiences. It will ignite your confidence to create outdoor learning experiences that nurture both wonder and ecological literacy. Bronze Winner of the 2013 Living Now Books For Better Living Award! Rooted in scientific and arts based Nature-Study and progressive education models, this guide is invaluable for anyone wanting to grow a thriving children’s gardening program. This book will inspire and equip you to sprout a happier healthier generation of children! Now in its second edition, Wings, Worms, and Wonder, the book, continues to help connect children and nature worldwide! What will this book actually do for you?Lots!! Wings, Worms, and Wonder will: 1. Provide you with 40 lesson and project plans that integrate garden and nature activities across math, science, language, writing, and history/cultural subject areas 2. Provide you with regionally specific tips, suggestions, and advice for growing successful gardens year round (including what to do with a school garden in the summer) 3. Provide you with the theoretical framework from which school gardening and gardening with children outside the home originated 4. Provide you with the philosophy and methods of the Nature-Study Movement and how they relate to the current educational theories and practices of Montessori, Steiner, and Sobel’s place-based education methods. 5. Provide you with the developmental psychology, educational theory and method, and the historical background and integrative practices needed to “sell” or justify the importance of school gardening, outdoor learning, place connection, and educating for ecological literacy to city councils, school administrations, or parent groups. 6. Provide you with hundreds of print, online, and supply resources for adults and children divided by subject category 7. Provide you with a passcode to the website’s book owners Garden Party page where you will find 4 bonus lesson plans, PDF downloads of all the book’s research masters and patterns, an expanded table of contents, and a PDF easy to use format compilation of the first year’s Wonder Wednesday Lesson plans from the blog 8. This book will be an ally that will help you boost your confidence and skill set for gardening with children, growing vegetables, connecting youth with place and the natural world, and integrating holistic creative outdoor experiences into children’s lives everyday! 9. Spark your wonder and love for the natural world through it’s full color and fully illustrated format, conversational style, and environmentally responsible and animal friendly printing process! 10. Help you plant the seeds for a future generation of nature lovers who know how to “grow their own” and have an unshakeable commitment to preserving the beauty and biodiversity of our natural world!

Wings, Worms, and Wonder: A Guide For Creatively Integrating Gardening and Outdoor Learning Into Children's Lives

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Do flowers and leaves fall out of every book you own? Or do you love the delicate beauty of pressed flowers, but aren't sure how to create a collection of your own? Pressed: An Herbarium Inspired Art Journal is the perfect workbook for your next creative nature connection adventure! In this paperback workbook you'll pick, press, paste, and pen flowers, leaves, seeds, and even feathers and insect wings along side your own sketches, journaling, and ephemera. Included are guided creative exploration prompts, as well as illustrations to color, flower symbolism fun, and free space to create to express your nature adventures near and far! What is an herbarium? It's a vintage word for a collection of pressed flowers and nature bits! They are great for collecting nature around your home, or for creating a travel souvenir from your adventures! Through your guided journey in Pressed: An Herbarium Inspired Art Journal, you'll learn how to press flora for best color and even fragrance, and gain ideas on how to collage it with your own drawings and words! A flower press is not required, but you may find one useful to accompany this book - or a large hardback dictionary works too! Jump into the world of pressed flowers today and let nature guide your creativity! **This book is meant for lighthearted fun and for fostering personal creative connections to nature. It is not a serious botanical guide.**

Pressed: An Herbarium Inspired Art Journal: Pick, Press, Paste, & Pen Your Creative Nature Connections!

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