Posted in Book Units (other than FIAR)

With Spring around the corner...I am planning a month of spring and nature based unit studies for us! I'm so excited! I'm going to give a brief overview of those units...stay tuned because I will be posting book titles and more details as I review all the books I've reserved from the library! I am not listing any of the crafts yet...still trying to narrow it down!

Spring

*we will touch briefly on the 4 seasons, discuss what happens in each

*focus on SPRING and NEW LIFE!

*art - colors of spring

Butterflies

*a fabulous butterfly lapbook from HSS

*learning what plants/flowers butterflies like and trying to plant at least one of these!

*learn about the different types of butterflies -- I would love to find a printable set of cards (similar to the montessori materials site) that has a different type of butterfly on each card - I haven't found any yet - does anyone see any online anywhere?

Birds

*I'm hoping to print off a freebie lapbook I got on birds - it is really good! (I think it is one of those I downloaded and saved, so I don't have a link to pass on, sorry!)

*learn about and label the body parts of a bird using these cards from montessori materials

*review what makes a bird a bird

Plants

*start a tabletop garden, which I have been admiring over HERE, we did something a little similar last year, I want to do it a little more in depth this year, making notes in our nature journal as well! Oh and notice the freebie download for the tabletop garden notebooking page as well! (on the righthand sidebar)

*draw and label in our nature journals the parts of a seed, plant, etc.

*work on parts of the unit study based on The Gardener from HSS

*print off the flower cards and help girls learn the names of the most common flowers (from HSS)

*learn the parts of a flower using these cards, again, from montessori materials