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Posted: April 05 2006 at 6:58am | IP Logged Quote Mary G
I think it was Lissa that mentioned (maybe on her blog) about a naturalist Gale Lawrence called The Beginning Naturalist -- Weekly Encounters with the Natural World.

I got the one and only book by Ms. Lawrence out of our library and I love it! It's called A Field Guide to the Familiar: Learning to Observe the Natural World. Her chapters are divided by season, starting with the first frost and indian summer -- so it'd be easy to key the readings to the right time of year. She explains things like how to identify the type of Christmas tree, observiing Canada geese, shooting stars and how to observe edible plants.

The individual essays are about 3 or 4 pages long -- a nice pre-read to a nature walk!

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Posted: April 05 2006 at 12:07pm | IP Logged Quote amiefriedl
Mary,
We were out for our first official Spring nature walk this morning and I got to thinking about books to use....thanks for the timely post!



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Posted: May 06 2006 at 5:01am | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Mary G wrote:
I think it was Lissa that mentioned (maybe on her blog) about a naturalist Gale Lawrence called The Beginning Naturalist -- Weekly Encounters with the Natural World.


I just got this book and started using it last week. I posted about it on my blog. It is wonderful! I was going to post about it here when I found this thread Mary started, so here I am just adding my .02 cents.

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Mary G wrote:

I got the one and only book by Ms. Lawrence out of our library and I love it! It's called A Field Guide to the Familiar: Learning to Observe the Natural World. Her chapters are divided by season, starting with the first frost and indian summer -- so it'd be easy to key the readings to the right time of year. She explains things like how to identify the type of Christmas tree, observiing Canada geese, shooting stars and how to observe edible plants.

The individual essays are about 3 or 4 pages long -- a nice pre-read to a nature walk!

And I got this one and blogged about it this morning!
Great minds think alike!

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My library has two of her titles. These look really promising.

I'm looking at it as a beginner in nature study, with a young one. Starting off with basics to me sounds like where we should be.

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Posted: May 07 2006 at 10:37am | IP Logged Quote Mary G
JennGM wrote:

I'm looking at it as a beginner in nature study, with a young one. Starting off with basics to me sounds like where we should be.


That's why we got 'em Jenn -- I'm definitely NOT a science or nature person....

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