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:)

Our Corn Lessons!

This week, we had a really nice time studying CORN!

 Our Bible memory Verses. We had 2 for this week.

 We studied the Life Cycle of Corn and made these cute little Indian Corn Crafts!

 The girls had a lot of fun painting with corn cobs!

 I set up an "Estimation Station" with jars filled with various items (apples, pumpkins, fall gems, pompoms, etc) and had the girls try to estimate the number of items in each jar.

 They really loved this activity!

 Em counted all of the pumpkins--all 31 of them:)

 The girls tallied their results. They did pretty well at estimating!

 Em enjoyed working with our "Eye Spy" Jar. I would ask her to find certain things for me or she would just call out what she found.

 The girls with their Indian Corn Crafts they made.

 Just having fun being "corny!" Ha, ha!

 Em worked with our Letter C drawer.

 Elle wrote a fall acrostic poem.

 Em worked on her one-to-one number recognition by putting the corresponding number of gems into each cupcake paper. I wrote the numbers 1-6 and 7-12 on paper cupcake liners and she put in the appropriate number of gems.

 Elle wrote a short story based on the bird and the corn cob.

 Em working on her geography. She knows the 7 continents and enjoys learning about animals that live on each continent.

 Elle schooling Em on the equator, the compass directions and more!

 The girls made these beautiful Indian Corn necklaces. We soaked the corn kernels in water overnight and laced them onto thread.

 The girls made these corn prints using bubble wrap to imprint the paint colors.

 Painting with corn husks. We are always trying new formats for learning!

We discussed thoughts on what people used for paint brushes before anyone had invented paint brushes. The girls came up with all kinds of funny ideas!

 Elle describing her artwork to us:).

 I put together a Fall Sensory Tray for the girls. They took turns picking items and classifying them based on their textures. We also put the items into a pillow case and played a "Touch & Feel" Guessing game--it was really fun!

 Elle working on the tower. She had to move quickly, before her little sisters came to knock it down!

 Elle working on her calendar and days of the week. She also did the weather station.

Elle is also working on addition and subtraction.

Here, Elle is doing addition using Dominoes.

 During Elle's free time, she designed an Obstacle Course!

 Em wanted to pull out the two-part cards. She loves working with anything that has animals on it!

 These were a challenge for her, but with some practice, she mastered it and had fun!!

Here is our new "Imagination Station." I found this beautiful box at a thrift store and put in a picture I had of some clouds and a blue sky. I really want the sky to be the limit with this activity!

I simply tossed in a bunch of household items and allow the girls to use their imaginations to come up with whatever inventions they would like!!! It has been fun watching their little minds work~especially the baby--she LOVES this box {and she loves playing with her Daddy}!

And, of course, we had a lot of fun eating foods with corn! I have a very cranky, teething toddler right now(who still REFUSES to sleep at night or nap well), so I was short on time to take photos this week. We enjoyed corn muffins with corn kernels baked inside, corn on the cob, corn chips, tacos, and corn salad!

We certainly hope you have enjoyed our corn unit! See you next time!

Blessings,

Aria:)