For our art lesson today, we made snakes 🐍 out of tissue paper squares. The lesson was inspired by our Get Into Art: Animals library book. I also gathered our books about reptiles- snakes specifically- so we can learn more about them and recreate a snake that’s their favorite with of course some modifications due […]
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What are minibeasts? Butterflies, dragonflies, scorpions, spiders, ladybugs, and praying mantises are all considered minibeasts and today we are going to start learning about them! My boys are definitely interested in bugs 🕷 and this was a perfect opportunity for us to learn about new topics that I haven’t introduced formally. We started first with
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We are going to learn about oceans this week! One of my favorite things to do is set up a simple tray of sensory items for play. We are using play dough, play sand, seashells, and ocean themed figurines. To make it more education, I found a few of our ocean themed books to read
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This week we are learning about astronomy. We were kindly gifted the Astronomy Project from Build A Project to review and go along with our studies and the kids really enjoyed doing the projects Nancy outlined in the lesson plan. Prior to starting our lessons, I gathered our science and junior encyclopedia that talk about
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If you have never made the solar system using crayons and a blow-dryer, you are in for a beautiful surprise! I have to say, my boys and I really loved how this turned out! I was inspired by @sensoryplaymatters for this “cool hair” technique using crayons, a hot glue gun, and a blow dryer, that I wanted
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This week we are covering Space and Astronomy in our Kindergarten to 3rd Grade homeschool lessons. Space is such a wonder for children to learn about: The planets are amazing, rocket ships are pretty cool, and galaxies are mesmerizing. I am really excited to put this unit together and learn alongside my kids. For our
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Since we’ve been talking a lot about colors and doing science experiments involving colors, I decided to create a color theory setup for my boys. They really enjoyed this activity! I set up the paint in sections so they could easily see what colors they were mixing and we could chat about the colors they
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Don’t toss that walking rainbow water just yet! I have two more activities for you to do! The first activity is mixing the primary and secondary colors to make tertiary colors! Grab a turkey baster, a few beakers, flasks, and graduated cylinders and let your little scientist mix away! This is a great activity to
In this tray, I attempted to recreate a swamp habitat so we can review the Life Cycle of a Frog. We have ponds, reeds, lily pads and water lillies. We also read Dr. Seuss’ “Would you rather be a tadpole” which is a fun book to learn about a few other animals and species that
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This week we reviewed life cycles for butterflies and frogs. We read Dr. Seuss’ My-Oh-My A Butterfly! as well as Pete The Cat And The Cool Caterpillar . We then used this free printable from Safari Ltd.’s website- Life Cycle Of A Butterfly for a cut and paste activity for my 5 year old. I
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