These past few weeks the kids have been studying amphibians and reptiles. I am learning right along with them. We have had so much fun discovering the differences between amphibians and reptiles...and we dug a little deeper into the differences between turtles vs. tortoises, alligators vs. crocodiles, lizards vs. salamanders, and we had a little unit on snakes. We even saw a "large...in my opinion" snake in our yard....it lives under our slide....lovely. I hate snakes. We then wrapped up the unit by discussing where and how animals hibernate. Since it is getting cold out there, I thought it was a suiting topic...and hopefully our snakes that are in our yard are hibernating...forever!
I have discovered that our library system has some awesome resources, as well as YouTube. My kids and I just love watching videos on each of the little creatures that we studied...there is so much out there. National Geographic online has some wonderful videos as well.
We did quiet a few activities relating to each of these topics. I didn't take pictures of everything...sorry!
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| The girls (and I) made little lizards out of beads. |
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| Studying about hibernation....thanks http://itsybitsylearners.com/ for the great printouts! |
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| Our wall-o-art! |
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| Making snakes with play-do |
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I also introduced each thing with a fun snack and the kids had to guess what we were studying. Some creations were a bit tricky...but they were able to guess them all!
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| Hibernation...can't you tell the bear is going into his marshmallow cave and the snake is underground?? |
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| Snakes |
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| Turtles |
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| Lizards | | |
Next unit....thankfulness and I really don't know:)
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