Pup’s Winter Animal Learning
At the beginning of the month, I decided that I would make a theme for Pup to work with since she had not been doing too much work. Since it was so cold here, I thought that we could talk about what animals do during the winter! There are a ton of great printable packs out there and I printed a few things off for her and I had planned to have trays for her. But honestly I made two and she really didn’t do them. One was an animal sort by whether they hibernate, migrate, or adapt. We did that one time. Then we had a rolling dice game with charting! She did that a lot! I also made an art tray with natural materials for her to build some habitats. One day she used our glue gun (which she loved) to build a bunny forest and then we wrote a story all about it. She also has done some reading and writing with this. Another thing that we have done with this unit is make rod pictures with out Cuisenaire rods. She really likes doing this and I keep encouraging this! After all learning is play and she loves to be creative. We often dissect the picture and practice adding the rods together! This has led to a lot of adding work and she even starting to write stuff down! All in all it has been fun, but it has shown me that for Pup learning is going to happen with a few structured things, lots of books to look through, and creative elements to make her own things! Here are some pictures of our very “Pup like” unit study!
March 31, 2014 @ 3:21 am
Wow – she is growing up! 🙂 I love her animal creations!
April 2, 2014 @ 12:11 am
🙂 I know Amy…..my baby is a big girl now! Good to hear from you! I feel like it has been a while! I have not been doing so well keeping up here! 🙂 I hope all is well with you!
April 2, 2014 @ 2:18 am
Oh my – we have been so busy here, that I do good to keep up with blog reading at all. I can imagine it is the same for you! We have been doing well and though I may not always have a chance to comment, I still enjoy reading your posts! It’s so fun to see kiddos growing up, but I hate to see the ‘little’ days going away so quickly with my own. I just have to say that I love the way you are able to keep the natural materials in to let the girls create with them. Nature gets in our house, but not always purposely 🙂
April 2, 2014 @ 11:41 pm
Thanks Amy, and I know just what you mean. So much to do, so little time. Or rather so little energy. Sometimes I just don’t have the energy to read blog! The kids are growing so fast and I know what you mean about the little days going away! They seem to go so fast and yet they seem to be replaced by new and exciting phases. I hope you guys keep having fun there! Happy Schooling!