Nature Transforms Childhood
A comprehensive guide using nature to connect learning:
- Nine units with ready to use resources and hands on activities.
- Practical tips and ideas to foster a creative approach to lifestyle learning.
- Weaves science, history, literature and life skills with multiple ages.
- Full color photos, lessons, hands-on activities and projects, 240 pages.
- Built in lesson planner to guide you through a full year.
- Ideal for early elementary through pre-teen.
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“I love that we can pull a lesson together so quickly. I am not an outdoor girl, but Holly has inspired me with new ways to engage my children and they are loving it. I treasure the memories we are making together. These books will serve us well for years and are a must have for any family needing encouragement along the way!”
What will you Discover?
Nature Study
Nature is calling right outside your back door! Holly shares step by step on how to weave it into your everyday life. Nature inspires curiosity, builds focus and brings calm to a child's life.
Connect with your community
Your community is filled with resources to bring experiential learning to your finger tips. Holly shows you where to find them, how to use them and keep your children engaged.
Real life stories
Can homeschool really be like that? Yes it can. Sharing our successes and failures will help you realize home education is a process. Laugh at our chicken coop debacle, tear up as I learn to accept my son at his level, let your mouth water as we pick our own strawberries and learn to can jam.
You CAN do this!
We need each other on this journey. You can free your family from the confines of a curriculum box. Learn from your community, build amazing friendships and discover the world around you. An education your children will remember long after they leave your home. Break free and blaze new trails!
About the Author: Holly Giles
Holly is a wife, mother and storyteller. After facing challenges early on with her two sons, she made her own trail in education and created a lifestyle of learning sparked by God's design. Her passion is now to show other families how to liberate their learning and build strong family relationships. Holly is a national motivational speaker for homeschool conventions, women's retreats and family events. She also writes for several publications including Molly Green Magazine and FPEA Connect Magazine. Holly co-hosts Roadschool Moms on the Ultimate Homeschool Radio Network.
What People Are Saying
“Blaze New Trails offers tried and true ideas, book lists, links and poetry, all ready to use with multi-aged learners. Her practical tips go beyond paper and pencil to experience where learning meets life. ”
“As a newer Mom to homeschooling, Blaze New Trails was a breath of fresh air among all the textbook curriculum out there. The chapters are easy to follow and my children are delighted to learn. ”
“Kids are naturally curious and learn best when they can ask why. Blaze New Trails is all you need to get them asking all the right questions.”
“Blaze New Trails is an excellent tool that encourages even the "outdoor inexperienced" mom to take part in outdoor learning. It is beautifully written, organized and very easy to use. ”
Inspired, fun Learning for the whole family!
Is your homeschool simple or stressful?
Be inspired to make learning at home, fun and simple. Blaze New Trails will show you how to use resources you already have and your own community to bring learning home.
Start your adventures today:
Add the Student Companion for a full year of science for grades 3 - 8.
The Student Companion digs deeper into each chapter. It's fun, effective and brings joy to learning.
- Additional history and science topics, and copywork
- Cut and paste questions, art, poetry, research and notebook page.
- Each unit is a stand alone activity. The book is a complete portfolio of their work.
- Full color and 313 pages. Designed for students to write in book.