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Bird’s Egg Craft
This activity would probably be perfect around Easter! This summer as I wandered around Hobby Lobby I saw all the cute colored brads. Not just the plain round ones as were available in our town last...
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Last Year’s Bird Lapbook
Here are a few pictures of the bird lapbook we did last year. We’ve had this out and have chatted a lot about how different the birds sound (galahs make a really distinctive ruckus). ED did the...
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Bird Unit
I showed this picture last week, I think, but what better visual to go with our bird unit! We have started off the year with a new bird unit. We did a pretty extensive bird unit last year and learned...
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Bird Unit Activities
Last night I set up the table with a few more bird-related activities: I made these cornstarch-clay eggs earlier this summer to prepare for our bird unit. The bird’s nests aren’t very elaborate (I...
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The Developing Chick-Egg Set
This summer, I saw a really interesting tool for studying chickens at My Montessori Journey. It was a chicken hatching set that you can buy for about $35. It was a great idea, but I decided the kids...
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And more Egg-speriments! (Eggs and Pollution)
We looked at the air bubbles coming out of this egg when it was placed in vinegar and talked about why the shell is porous. This lets the growing embryo get oxygen. We then talked about how since it...
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Egg-speriments!
To make our bird unit especially appealing to LD we, of course, had to add in some science egg-speriments! While DD and I were unable to smash our eggs… LD did!! We’re not quite sure why, but then...
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Forest Unit
We have had so much fun with this forest unit so far. We’ve done a ton of crafts and coloring. DD’s owl is left and LD’s is right/below. All the kids have been doing the forest animal sorts and we...
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Forest Unit: Fabulous Science Activity!
As I mentioned yesterday, we did a lot of reading about owls to lead into the awesome science study on owls! We talked about the forest food chain (who eats whom) and then I asked them what owls ate....
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Forest Unit (3rd Post): Owl Lapbook
Often while I’m reading aloud (in this case we’re still reading Little House in the Big Woods) I have the kids working on other things. A few days ago I had them cut out the pieces of a quick owl...
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Science Egg-speriments! Just in Time for Easter! (Part 1 of 4)
EggSpect the UnEggSpected with this series of fun Science EggSperiments! In this series you’ll find a dozen terrific egg activities to do with you kids. So… for the first EggSperiment… Because Easter...
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3 More Quick EggSperiments: How Strong Is That Egg? (Part 2 of 4)
EggSperiment 1: Why do eggs move the way they do? Have the kids roll an egg around on a table. Talk about why they are shaped the way they are. Because eggs are a funny and oblong shape, they roll and...
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4 More Science EggSperiments: (Part 3 of 4)
EggSperiment #4 Will an egg float or sink in water? What happens when we add salt to the water? We added a lot of salt to one cup and had plain water in the other cup. The egg in salty water floated,...
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