The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature {Poppins Book Nook}

This months theme for the Poppins Book Nook is The Great Outdoors. Winter has finally arrived in Melbourne and the cold has well and truly set in making us rather loath to enjoy the great outdoors.  The one thing I truly enjoy about books is they have the ability to take you places without leaving the comfort of your home.

This month we have chosen to enjoy a few books on nature.  We have enjoyed The Burgess Bird Book for Children and focusing on  The Berenstain Bears Nature Guide (Almost everything small bears and kids need to know about... the animals, the plants, the earth itself, with actual facts about frogs, possums, birds, fish, trees, rocks, lady bugs, earthquakes ... and lots more).  This is part of our The Berenstein Bears Big Book of Science and Nature book. We have also enjoyed The year at Maple Hill Farm.

This month I have been inspired once again to start Nature Journaling and so Sir N and I are preparing to make journals.  We have gone on a few field trips and taken photographs to capture the beauty around us.  It's amazing to see what is out there even in the middle of winter.  We have been sharing our pictures on Instagram.  Our accounts are:  Macro_Passion and Explorer Pugsley.

We took some time to explore the zoo and Sir N took this beautiful photograph of the serval there which was featured on the Zoo Facebook page.

On YouTube

•  Berenstain Bears 50th Anniversary - Interviews loved watching these.
• The Berenstain Bears The Baby Chipmunk

On the WWW

• The Berenstain Bears: Lesson plans and teaching activities 
• The Lesson Planet: Berenstain Bears.
• PBS Kids activities Berenstain Bears.
• Random House Kids The Berenstain Bears activity pages. Here you will find activity packs, colouring in pages, word searches and more.
• Berenstain Bears Pinterest

On this blog

• Journals in Homeschool
• Keeping a Nature Journal 
• The Decorated Journal 
• Nature Journaling Resource List
• CMC - Nature Journaling  
• Making Animal Footprint Casts {Tutorial} 

"As your nature walk guide
I have many duties.
Now let's take a moment
to enjoy nature's beauties."
- Papa Bear

Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192 
ISBN 10: 1-887840-81-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-887840-81-1
Author Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

Available from Sonlight and Amazon

Topics covered

•  Almanac (seasons, weather, and astronomy)
• Nature Guide (plants, animals, and earth science),
• Science Fair (machines, matter, and energy).

Jill from over at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom has made this FREE Poppins Book Nook pack for you with an outdoor theme.

• An official interactive Poppins Book Nook bookmark for this month’s theme
• This month’s Passport pages to add to your lapbook
• Several lapbook elements centered around The Great Outdoors
• Reading response writing prompt

We have enjoyed the company of the Berenstain Bear family this month.  You are invited to blog and share one of your book adventures on the theme of The Great Outdoors and join in our link up below.

Looking forward to reading your adventures
Blessings
Chareen

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Portrait class {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
We have slowly been working our way through a video art class by Graham Braddock called Real Drawing for Kids!  So far we have completed a still life drawing and a drawing of a kitten.  I so wish I had had art class by this gentleman when I was at school.  He has the most amazing way of explaining how to draw and place the parts of your pictures onto the page.  I highly recommend his art classes if you can attend them but if not you can purchase a three class DVD series from him.You can also purchase these as a download.We decided to use a layout guide for the portrait class and will be reattempting this class next year when the students are a little older.

Portrait drawn by Sir N Age 9

Portrait drawn by me.

Featured This Week

Last week Cindy from Two Muses Homeschool shared her FREE art appreciation printables with us.

Over at Raventhreads you can find a tutorial for this Wooden Block String Art.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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Blessings
Chareen

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The Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to co-host this weekly meme.

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Toad Heaven {Tuesday's Treasures}

• Format: Paper back / Hardback
• Number of Pages: 192
• Publication Date: 
• ISBN 10:0141314826
• ISBN 13:9780141314822
• Author Morris Gleitzman

Thanks to a friends excellent 10 cent library purchase Paul and Sir N have been enjoying Toad Heaven.  All I have heard for the past three days are gales of laughter and giggles of delight as they've met Limpy and his family.  Limpy is a cane toad living in Queensland Australia. Cane toads are vermin here in Australia and so their antics with the humans are really funny to read.  Limpy is the slightly squashed cane toad and the hero of the story.  In this book he is in search of a nature reserve for him and his friends.  For some reason nothing ever seems to go to play for the delightful trio.  This book definitely appeals to boy humour and is perfect for reading ages 8-10. 

There are a total of four books in the series

1. Toad Rage
2. Toad Heaven
3. Toad Away
4. Toad Surprise

Blessings
Chareen

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Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures. I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books and Resources out there out there hiding on shelves and somewhere on the internet.

I invite you to blog about

• a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library,
•  a great homeschool item you have found and
•  any new resources you are enjoying. 

Grab the button for your post and add a link to your post below. I would love to read about your treasures. 

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