When studying flying creatures we often break things down into individual insects (At some point I should make a Flying Creatures Unit landing page). We look at ants (ants are included in flying creatures because they do fly briefly when forming new colonies, and because it would … [Read more...]
Water booklist
As I set about putting together this water booklist I had a couple of criteria for this list. First I wanted to focus on fresh water, so that immediately eliminated large numbers of books, next I wanted to focus on the water cycle, animals near water, and people interacting with … [Read more...]
Moon booklist
I had this absolutely amazing Moon booklist that I had put together, and I was so excited by it, and then before I got to the library someone checked out all of the nonfiction moon books on my list. I had five nonfiction books on my moon booklist, and they were all checked out, … [Read more...]
How to make a compass
I was scrolling through my stockpiled post ideas looking for inspiration and saw this how to make a compass lesson we'd done years ago, like my kids were in middle school years ago. I somehow never wrote about this particular bit of Earth Science, and I'm realizing I have some … [Read more...]
Sun booklist
When the kids were in kindergarten we used My Father's World and each week there was a different theme, and each week I would look up books for that theme, head to the library and check them out. Now I put some of these booklists up on the blog, but not all of them. The other day … [Read more...]
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