Growing Two Sunny Flowers

Friday, March 20, 2009 - Farmer Girl

My 9yo dd has decided she wants a farm. I told her that she needs to learn more about farm animals and what care they need before she makes any decisions. She opted to do a lap-n-note.

First, we printed out a unit from School Express. She worked on that throughout the week. She is also reading a couple of basic books, to cover all animals, and then going in depth with animals she fancies.  

First animal, since we already own them and she is familiar with them, was the chicken. She completed pages from Evan Moor Giant Science Resource book about life cycle, parts of the egg, kinds of feathers, etc. and read these books:

Here are free unit studies from Homeschool Share:

Daisy Comes Home and Just Plain Fancy

Then she moved on to ducks. She really wants some pet ducks. We have been enjoying some duck eggs from a neighbor, and that has sold us all on the idea, if we can find some ducklings local. She read these books:

And she completed a FREE Lapbook from Homeschool Share:

Next, she is movingon to goats, which is perfect, because if everything goes as planned our kids should be arriving next week!