Art and Craft combined to create these adorable Spin Art Snails! Creating colourful shells with a salad spinner adds fun and experimentation to the process.
Mini-beasts do not have a backbone and are called invertebrates. Insects, arachnids, molluscs are just some of the different mini-beasts you might find in your “sit spot” this time of year.
Learning links for everything wormy and squirmy related Superworm sensory tray: Wiggly Woo song: Jelly worms: Superworm playdough: Dig for worms sensory play: Make your own …
Time: 10 minutes Ages: Little kids to Big kids Difficulty to make: Easy peasy Skills: Learning about minibeasts’ habitats
Tuff tray play offers endless opportunities for toddlers and beyond. ... Read More
So this week using the Exploring Nature With Children cirriculum we are going to be studying mini beasts. Now when I first started jotting ideas down I thought it might extend to a couple of days w…
Mini-beast identification cards, available to download as a pdf to be printed. Can be laminated and bound together as you see fit. This set includes pictures of 15 commonly found mini-beasts, where you can find them and a fun fact or two. Two cards set per page to create A5 ID cards, can also be printed in booklet form.
Part 2 of Mini Beasts Learning Links Ants: A for Ant: Ant anatomy: Closer look at ants: Did you know?: World of ants: All about ants: Finger print ants: FREE life cycl…
It’s ‘Mini-beast Week’ in Exploring Nature With Children! Here are some helpful links to help with your studies: Bill Nye the Science Guy: InsectsCome Outside : SpidersHow to draw insects…
Learning links for everything wormy and squirmy related Superworm sensory tray: Wiggly Woo song: Jelly worms: Superworm playdough: Dig for worms sensory play: Make your own …
Learning links for everything wormy and squirmy related Superworm sensory tray: Wiggly Woo song: Jelly worms: Superworm playdough: Dig for worms sensory play: Make your own …
Learning links for everything wormy and squirmy related Superworm sensory tray: Wiggly Woo song: Jelly worms: Superworm playdough: Dig for worms sensory play: Make your own …
The natural world not only inspires artist Raku Inoue – it also supplies his materials
Welcome to the Bug Hotel Story Sack. The Novelty Bug Hotel Book is full of facts about your favourite garden insects. A homemade habitat where creepy crawlies of all shapes and sizes can find a place to stay! Discover how a bug hotel can create a sustainable, safe environment for insects and mini-beasts by exploring each section, lifting the flaps and finding out facts about your favourite garden insects.16 Pages Lanka Kade Wooden Mini-beasts. This lovely set of 6 chunky wooden mini-beast characters, perfect for little hands. You can use the figures to stack, count, or make up lots of creepy crawly adventures. The figures are nice and chunky and come in a bag for easy storage. Printed on both sides with a colourful design showing a natural wood grain edge Ladybird, spider, beetle, butterfly, caterpillar and bee Made from eco-friendly wood Presented in a Drawstring Bag
Building a Mini Ecosystem is an excellent way for kids to observe and learn about different small critters found on nature hunts and while in nature.
I have learned that if the class is truly interested in something, they will use reading, writing, and math skills as they explore their interests naturally. I observe and listen closely to discover what they are interested in. Sometimes a book or story will spark an interest. Sometimes an interest is sparked by something a friend shared with the class. Sometimes I notice interests by listening to their stories and their play. Our last large group interest was sparked when one of our friends found an almost dead praying mantis. The kids were fascinated with it and wanted to look closer, observe, and find out more. Every time we went outside they wanted to look for insects! I set out some invitations for them to explore insects further. They quickly started looking through books and models of insects to see what they could find out. I started encouraging them to record what they noticed using different materials. One of their favorites was the book Microsculpture:Portraits of Insects by Levon Biss. It truly took a closer look at insects including closeups of legs, wings, eyes feet, etc. it was such a beautiful book. I set it out with materials for them to create their own beautiful portraits of insects showing what they noticed. They are starting to figure out how to try to spell unfamiliar words by writing the sounds they hear in words. They practiced labeling their insects here also. But the insects they got the most excited about were the ones completely covering our milkweed plants! They wanted to know all about them! We looked at a picture of one and made our thinking visible by recording what we saw, thought and wondered. Then we got our Entomologist tools, took them outside and found out everything we could about them! They were amazing and thorough Entomologists! We recorded everything we noticed and then put some of our information in the computer and found out they are called Milkweed bugs! We then did an observational drawing as Entomologists and used our writing skills to label what it is and some body parts. Here is the display outside our room showing everything we learned about them! The other insects all took a backseat to the milkweed bug! I could have done a traditional insect unit, but these kids noticed something in their environment where they could truly experience it, so I followed the direction they took our insect study. I often let the kids direct our curriculum! They show me what they want to learn and I follow their lead and learn along side them. They were much more involved, interested and excited about learning as we followed their interest. Also, this fell naturally into our science standards of living things and what they need! I can’t wait to see what other interests this group will have that we can dig deeper into! They are definitely bringing in leaves by the bucketful... Here are some other things going on in our classroom: We are still working on those fine motor skills! Our finger muscles need a lot of work! Stories are being created in all of the areas of our room as we learn about story making! Here they are encouraged to show math in an open ended way. At the moment they are working on the numbers 1-10, shapes, writing numbers to 10, counting objects and matching to the correct number, counting to 25, subitizing and patterns. They are also learning to notice math all around us and how we use it in our every day lives. Some Fall art inspiration with sunflowers. They drew pictures of Mrs. Coberly wearing Michigan State colors and wrote “Mrs. Coberly loves Sparty!” Then we decorated her door! They loved this! Unfortunately, the Buckeye/Spartan game did not end well for me! It has been a busy place filled with all kinds of learning!
Draw the missing half of an insect to complete the picture! These drawing prompts are good for studying symmetry and entomology with kids at the same time.
We often use loose material compositions in our classroom as a way for children to tell us what they know. We set out various mater...
We always dove into our insect unit in the spring, I wanted to let you know that I put together a list of insect books for you to use with your class! Be sure to stick around until the end of this post, because I have something VERY special for you and your students!
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Bees are disappearing at an alarming rate which could impact our food supplies but also turn our brightly-coloured meadows into grey hinterlands.
If you are studying Earthworms this unit is perfect to guide your instruction. Included in this pack is: 1. Parts of a worm (pg. 2) 2. Worm Life Cycle (pg. 3) 3. Worm fun facts (pg. 4) 4. All About Earthworms (pg. 5-8) 5. Vocabulary (pg. 9) 6. All About Earthworms student version b/w (pg. 10) 7. Watch me learn all about earthworms student booklet (I print and staple into a booklet but you could do each page individually). (pg.11-17) 8. Earthworm writing (pg. 18-20) 9. Craft-modeled after Diary of a worm. (pg. 21-25) 10. Worm Journal to record observations (pg. 26-32) 11. Worm painting. (pg. 33-34) Any questions, please e-mail me at [email protected]
