Bringing it Home for 5-7s

For some odd reason, our schooling revolves a lot around creepy, crawly critters. Colden is enthralled with all the big stuff and Dylan is fascinated with all the little stuff. So between the two of them, we learn a lot about the animal and anthropod kingdoms. Here are a few resources we've found that we go back to over and over and over and over again. I wanted to share them with you so you can continue studying these topics with your 5-7s.

Favorite animal websites for studying about animals:

Animals: A to Z
http://a-z-animals.com/
Reptiles of Arizona (includes amphibians and habitats, too)
http://www.reptilesofaz.org/
The Simple Homeschool
http://www.thesimplehomeschool.com/
One year we purchased a subscription. I also subscribed to the email and often get freebies in my email or her pdf packets for $.99. She's quite thorough and the kids enjoyed doing the interactive lessons. Now they enjoy reading through her pdfs. I'm attaching a sample freebie from her that's related to this month's unit.


Last year I bought some butterfly larvae online so the kids could watch the life cycle of a butterfly. Here is the link if you wish to do that with your kids:
http://educationalscience.com/paintedlady.htm

The Nature show on PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

What resources do you have about our amazing planet? I'm sure my kids would love to see what your kids have studied!

Thanks,

Angie Patterson

Hi!

Hi! This is Kessiah, and I'm starting a new blog for our home school group (aka Lollipop) I was thinking for the rest of the month we could write what we are doing so we can keep track of what we have done so far. I hope you like it!