Posted in FIAR book activities
The week of January 21st we focused on Jane Yolen’s book Owl Moon. Online we found a few nice birdcall websites where we could hear the great horned owl’s actual call.
http://www.mirror-pole.com/collpage/gho/gho_baby.htm and http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/great-horned-owl.html for calls and facts about owls.
http://www.kidwings.com/teacher/coloringpages/greathornedowl.htm was a nice coloring page. We also later the following week watched the movie suggestion “My Side of the Mountain” … a big disappointment if you like the book at all. Also not at all geared to a small child’s interest level. I love the book and was upset at how much they changed.
We did some cookery, watched some Magic School Bus videos, and tried out our Karate lesson DVD we got for Christmas. Maddy started wanting to learn to write letters (she does quite well) so we pulled out the Kumon uppercase letter workbook, and she goes through that at her own pace. Ted also plays Nick Jr.’s habitat game Diego’s Animal Rescue.
Speaking of Owls, the Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up:
On another exciting note, author/illustrator Denise Fleming will be coming to our area, and we purchased tickets for the afternoon hands-on showing. Can’t wait to see that!
