Your child can use a tape recorder to record his narration. An older child can read to a younger child and write down the younger child's narration for him. Nature notebooks are a journal of the things you observe in nature. They may include watercolors or sketches. The date, common name, scientific name, and the location where observed should all be included.
Poetry is a nice touch.
Wild Days, Creating Discovery Journals will inspire you to start your nature notebook. There is much more to Charlotte Mason's philosophy. To nourish a child daily with loving, right, and noble ideas is the parent's next duty . The child, having once received the idea, will assimilate it in his own way, and work it into the fabric of his life . Nourish him with ideas which may bear fruit in his life.