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Tag: swimming creatures
Ocean Animals Book Craft
There are some days you are on top of your Mommy game. You’ve kept the kids entertained, they’ve learned stuff, and the house is clean. Okay, I’ve never achieved this last one, but I achieved the first two with this ocean animals book craft as part of homeschooling preschool. (there are affiliate links in here)…
The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers
Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way…
Whale sounds? Why do they make them, and what do they sound like?
In our science lessons, we’ve started learning about whales and dolphins for our Swimming Creatures Science Lessons, and as I was reading about them it brought up all sorts of questions about their sounds, so I did a quick youtube search and played the different whale sounds. I thought I’d save ya’ll the search for…
Learn about horseshoe crabs
Several years ago I ran a geography homeschool co-op with several different families. Every week I’d teach a couple of different geography lessons going over different states. When I was looking up information about Delaware I discovered horseshoe crabs are one of their state animals. Well, horseshoe crabs are really interesting animals, and then today…
How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?
One of the weird random facts I learned about Benjamin Franklin is he learned how the ocean currents move, and charted the Atlantic Current. If Benjamin Franklin is ever the subject on Jeopardy, I’m set. Since that’s not likely to happen, I set the kids to an ocean currents experiment and had lots of fun…