Our Owl Lessons {Owl Babies Lapbook}

We have been having a wonderful time learning all about OWLS!!

We LOVE the book "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell and decided to make a cute lapbook based on the book!

 Elle is such a nurturing "little Mommy." She made me smile as she wore her sling and worked on her lapbook.

We used some of the printables found on homeschool share for our lapbook.

Our Bible Memory Verse.

 Being that owls are nocturnal, we discussed how they sleep during the day and are awake all night. We talked about how God designed our bodies to need sleep, but that God NEVER sleeps--He is always watching over us! That is good news!

 

Here are our books for this unit.

 Elle's favorite owl is the Barn owl because "it looks like God drew a heart on its' face." So, we laced some heart-shaped pasta onto pipe cleaners to make bracelets.

 The girls had a lot of fun working on different owl crafts.

 Em is working on an owl shape match game here.

 We have been blessed with some gorgeous fall weather here and have been spending tons of time outdoors.

 

 We love fall!

 Em using little rocks as her markers to practice number correspondence.

The favorite activity of the week-OWL COOKIES!!

 I made them from natural peanut butter, brown sugar, an egg and vanilla. Here is a similar recipe to what we made.

 Em working on her pre-writing skills.

 She LOVED playing the shape sort game!

We ordered{for FREE} a CD and booklet from our State's Department of Natural Resources. It has been amazing! The CD has all kinds of owl calls on it and the book has information on all of the different owls we have here.

 Elle did a great job identifying the owls and reading facts about each one!

 Ce Ce had fun making all of the "whooo" calls while listening to the CD!

 Learning about the life cycle of owls.

 Em's counting skills work-she counted the owls and clipped a clothespin on the correct answer! She loves math, too!

 Elle filling in the missing numbers on a worksheet I created.

Elle loves making up her own equations!!!

The girls also painted owls!

 And, they made paper plate owls.

 Reading their favorite Owl book-"Owl Babies." 

It was a wonderful week!

Blessings,

Aria:)

{Homeschool Highlights} 1

Instead of doing a Weekly Wrap-up of our homeschool adventures, I have decided to peridically post some highlights of some of the things we are working on. I am trying to streamline a bit and cut down on my obligations as to avoid burning out really quickly!

Our recent Bible Memory Verse.

I recently blogged about our newest kitchen adventure--our awesome Snack Tray! The girls are really loving this, maybe a bit too much:) They eat so much food!

The girls have also started attending an organized gym class. It is PERFECT because both of the older girls can participate!!! This really makes Em happy!! She loves the gym class and is really blossoming in there:).

Elle continues to really love math and reading! She loves working in her workbooks:).

 Here, Elle was working on some patterns and designed some of her own on her white board.

Working on Phonics.

Doing some Language Arts work.

Elle loves using little flashcards to construct sentences!

Baby CeCe loves to come along and try to take Elle's cards just as fast as she can put them on the table. Elle is comforting a crying Ce Ce, and explaining to her why she could not take her school work. Awwwww, this just melts my heart and makes me LOVE homeschooling even more!!!

The big girls set up a store to work on money lessons. Here Em is showcasing her little wallet with all of her money. Elle decided to use her debit card so she didn't have to figure out the change, lol.

Em still LOVES working with Alphabet Letter Box I made!

Here she is working on some pre-writing worksheets.

 Decorating their Letters!

We need to figure out how to hang them up still.

The girls LOVE using the Alphabet Cards to do some exercising--especially when it is raining outside!

Em is so silly:)

Collecting leaves for fall crafts and math lessons.

Sorting their leaves.

 Em, making her fall wreath of leaves she collected.

Elle, working on her fall wreath.

They turned out so pretty:)

 Doing some leaf rubbings.

 A little science fun---baking soda and vinegar experiment.

Working on more leaf rubbings--even Ce Ce enjoyed this one:)

 We have been studying Australia. Elle made a diorama of the Great Barrier Reef.

 The girls always enjoy going to the Children's Science Center!

 And, of course, Elle just HAD to watch some surgeries:)

 We also took a trip to the local Art Museum. The girls had so much fun!

 The look on Ce Ce's face is priceless:) Em is building silly animals.

Em, 3 years old.

 Elle, 5 years old.

Thank you for sharing our adventures with us. We certainly hope you are enjoying the ride:)

Blessings,

Aria:)