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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