For 9 weeks we will be doing a unit on biomes. The first week was an introduction to habitat & biomes & a review of the continents. The next seven weeks we will be visiting (in our imaginations) each of the 7 continents & stopping in 7 different biomes. The last week we will use …
Farm Kid1 has visited the Tillamook Forest Center twice with Cub Scouts, but this was my first time going. I really enjoyed it. It’s a great discovery center & it’s free (donations accepted, of course). The museum has a ton of information on the Tillamook Forest including plants, animals & how people use the area. …
Since we live here, the North America continent box was the easiest to put together. There are many more items I could add to this box – eventually I will.
Among all my web searching, I came across Montessori-inspired continent boxes. Instantly, I knew I had to make my own version. I love the idea of having a quick peek into every continent at my disposal anytime. I can imagine a ton of uses for these boxes. So what do I have in our boxes? …
This is just too cute not to share. These two make my day every time I drive by. For at least 6 months this wild deer has been living with this llama. I never see a mother deer around. I don’t think there is one. It really seems as though the llama has taken on …
As a kid one of my favorite past times was playing with Barbie’s. I am lucky enough that my mom saved most of my Barbie’s & their stuff. Now that I have a daughter, I wanted to give her those things. I also had a Barbie dream house, but mom didn’t keep that. I enjoyed …
When spring break was over, I was conflicted about whether to teach a unit studying the 7 continents or study the biomes of the world. When I saw this post on their virtual voyage, I decided I could do both. So, we are going to travel the world, stopping once on each continent. The main …
During our bird unit I transformed the science/nature area to an all bird theme. For weeks we continuously added goodies here. It’s a mix of things we had around the house & projects we made. My younger two kids even made a couple bird projects at school, so I hung those up as well.
