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Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

This coming week our creation study takes us into the world of insects!

Fun Unit!

Homeschool share has a FUN unit using Eric Carle's book on insects. We will be using a lot of these ideas this week!

Check it out HERE

Good Books

*The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle

*The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

*The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

*The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle

*The Big Bug Book by Margery Facklam (this is a longer book about really BIG bugs, we have it on tape, so my hope is to listen about a different bug each day.)

*The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Lorianne Siomades (I'm sure we'll be singing this song throughout the week too!)

*My Day in the Garden by Miela Ford -- really cute story about all the things a little girl finds in the garden.

*Look Closer - an introduction to bug watching by Gay W. Holland

*Simon & Schuster Children's Guide to Insects and Spiders

*Bugs! by David Greenberg - a cute rhyming book

*a different "science" type book each day on a different insect each day (a book about spiders, a book about ladybugs, a book about butterflies, etc.)

*2 "First Discovery" books by scholastic - one on butterflies, one on ladybugs. These books are really neat! They have clear pages as overlays that show in pictures neat things. I got these at a book fair and would love to have even more of them! They are great science books for little ones.

Fun Activities & Crafts

*We got this STICKER BOOK for the girls to use!

*I printed off the insects at www.learningpage.com that are made for the mural, but I think we will make a little insect book with them instead.

*I printed off sheets on individual insects from www.enchantedlearning.com for the girls to color. They also have facts about each insect on them.

*We will do the mini book on Little Miss Muffet from the homeschool share unit listed above.

*I have some new plastic bugs for us to look at and examine. Fun and yucky!

*We will draw lots of BUGS in our creation journals and label them. I hope to get outside and observe some live bugs to draw as well as letting the girls draw insects they see in books.

(Side note here: As each week goes by I am finding that the Creation Journal is my absolute FAVORITE thing we have done yet as homeschoolers...kind of the same thing as a nature journal (which we also keep) but these have been only for our creation unit study. The girls have truly enjoyed drawing all the different things God has created, they love spelling and labeling the items, showing off their drawings to daddy each evening, learning how to draw new things, and they are becoming more and more confident in drawing. I love that I will have these beautiful keepsakes all in one notebook. We can go back and review all the things God made on each day as well, so it will be nice to have for that reason, too. I just wanted to share how awesome this has been for anyone who might be considering starting one -- be it a nature journal or if you plan to do the creation unit study. I actually think we will have filled up their ENTIRE notebook by the end of our creation study! How awesome is that? I just love that they are excited about it, too! That is the best part!)

Videos & Other

*Magic School Bus Butterflies

*Magic School Bus Gets Ants in its Pants

*Magic School Bus Spins a Web

*Magic School Bus Creepy Crawly Fun

(we are saving the "Bee" things for when we row The Bee Tree in a few weeks!)