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Simple Studies: Jungle Creatures

With Simple Studies: Jungle Creatures, students cover narration, dictation, rainforest ecology, South America geography, conservation, zoology, mammalogy, entomology, biology, ornithology, nature study, literature, copywork, poetry, humanities, art history, and more all while you simply read aloud.

Each lesson offers a one-chapter reading of One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest, a prompt for narration, picture book recommendations and hand-drawn rainforest coloring pages based on the book (included) for each young student.

Older students use visual aids such as the real-life images (included) and/or field guides or visual reference books for their nature journal entries. Optional video links, species photo and research links, discussion questions, and dictation exercises are included with each lesson.

Included in this study:

– 10 Simple Lessons that correspond with each chapter

– 11 Hand-drawn Coloring Pages for younger students to use while you read aloud

– Picture Booklists for each lesson

– Chapter Review and Narration prompts

– Field Guide Recommendations, guidance and prompts for older students

– Specific visual aid and video links with each lesson

– Dictation Exercises (all lessons)

– Animal and Plant Species Pictures for nature drawing

– Margaret Mee Artist Study Guide

– South America Maps and Detailed Map Drill Lesson Guidance

– Copywork Pages (included with each real-life image)

– Poetry

– Review Questions and more…

Instructors will need one additional item on hand to complete the lessons: One Day in the Tropical Rainforest by Jean Craighead George.

“We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things” – Charlotte Mason