Sharing Saturday 13-40
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2013-10-11T21:05:00-04:00
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Flamingo Friday: Chilean & Caribbean Flamingos
Have you entered my current giveaway yet?
Continuing on looking at the species of flamingos, I thought I would give you some information about the last two that live in the Americas: the Chilean and the Caribbean Flamingos. Now these are the only flamingos I have seen live since our local zoo and Sea World have these kinds.
Source: By Kevin Walsh from Bicester, England, UK. (flamingoscene.Uploaded by PDTillman.) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons |
The Chilean Flamingo:
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Chilean and Caribbean Flamingos at Stone Zoo, Stoneham, Massachusetts |
They breed in temperate South America: from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil. They also have been introduced in Germany and the Netherlands and have a small population in Utah and California in the United States.
Hazel and a flamingo at Sea World |
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Sources: Sea World Animal Bytes and Wikipedia
The Caribbean Flamingo:
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A Parent feeding a Young Chick at Stone Zoo |
Source: By Martin Pettitt from Bury St Edmunds, UK (Caribbean flamingo) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons |
Sources: Wikipedia, Sea World Animal Bytes, and Flamingo Resource Centre
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Here is a video from YouTube of a Caribbean flamingo chick taking its first steps.
That is what we have for this week's Flamingo Friday. Soon we will talk about the Greater and the Lesser flamingos. Enjoy!!
We're Going on a Leaf Hunt
Have you entered my current giveaway yet?
We found a fun book for the autumn: We're Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger. It is a fun take off of We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. Now Hazel got scared of We're Going on a Bear Hunt so we have not made it all the way through the story yet. However she enjoyed this version. It lends itself for a perfect scavenger hunt activity. I put together different sheets to vary it depending on age and on what you want to focus: colors, sizes, types of trees, types of seeds. If you have a group you can also make it a competition to see who gets the largest, etc. I made a sheet for that as well.
For younger children you can look for colored leaves. Then of course they can also just collect leaves and sort them by color, shape, and/or size.
We went on a leaf hunt today and had a wonderful time. Hazel asked if we could go on one every day. We had a large wind storm with some rain the other day,so many of the leaves are down. Hazel loved walking through the crunchy leaves on the side of the road.
We decided to look for the colors. Here is Hazel holding up the orange leaf we found. And, yes, she had me hold it up so she could take a picture of me as well on her camera.
Then in typical Hazel style after picking up many leaves, she discovered mushrooms.
Then of course she wanted to take pictures since I was.
We also found many acorns and acorn tops as well as a few sticks. On the way home, Hazel decided to ride in the wagon.
When we got home we looked at all of our treasures.
We have needed to make two cards, a birthday card for her teacher and a thank you note for someone at church who bought her a beautiful dress. We decided to use our treasures to make the cards. Hazel stamped a piece of white construction paper with "Happy Birthday" and another with "Thank you." Then on the front we glued (or at least attempted, I may need to use some hot glue) sticks on as the trunks and Hazel Mod Podged the leaves on back side and stuck it onto the paper and then put a layer of Mod Podge on the front. The Mod Podge glue will help keep the leaves from losing their colors.
I let her do the gluing so they are still drying.
Our other plan is to needle felt some acorns and make necklaces or just acorns for her friends and teachers at school. And here is a picture of my favorite tree right now (the photo really doesn't do it justice):
OH and a quick update on our painted acorns. We pulled out the nail polish I bought for Hazel this summer and I let her paint with that. She had a blast and they came out really well.
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We're Going on a Leaf Hunt
2013-10-09T20:00:00-04:00
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Halloween is Coming: Wiggly Halloween DVD Review & Giveaway with Halloween Crafts
Today I am going to share with you a few of our Halloween preparations as well as a wonderful DVD from The Wiggles: Wiggly Halloween. I was sent a copy of this DVD to review here (all opinions are my own) and I get to give a copy away to one of you! Thank you NCircle Entertainment for this opportunity!
Math Lesson: Finding Shapes and Patterns Everywhere!
Congratulations to Danelle for winning the Pocoyo's Circus DVD. Come back tomorrow for a new giveaway!
I haven't done a math lesson post in awhile, so I thought I would share some great picture books on shapes and patterns and a fun activity I use to do with my geometry students made easier for younger kids. The first book I am sharing is Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Greenfield Thong. Since it is still Hispanic Heritage Month, this is the perfect book to share and use for shapes. The book goes through many shapes: circles, squares, rectangles, stars and more. Each shape has several different things that are that shape. Many of the objects are mentioned in Spanish or are Hispanic in origin. We really enjoyed reading this book as it taught a bit about the culture as well as the shapes.
The next book is A Star in My Orange: Looking for Nature's Shapes by Sana Meachen Rau is a fun book about looking for stars in nature. Some we have thought of are on the leaves of tomatoes. This one had a few of its points bent and/or broken, but you can get the general idea.
Another place is in an apple when you cut it horizontal instead of along the length of the core.
Our final book for today is part of the Math Every Day series and it is Patterns Outside by Daniel Nunn. It is a wonderful book to introduce looking for patterns. The focus of the book is patterns found at a park in nature.
Now to go with these three books, I thought a fun activity would be a shape scavenger hunt and scrapbook. This is an activity I use to do with my high school geometry students. Their list was much longer and harder, but I made a simple one in Word that you can use or change to what your child knows. (I did this project with the students at the beginning of the year to introduce many of the vocabulary words to them.)
The activity itself is to find different triangles either in a picture from a magazine, newspaper (some place they can cut it out) or take a photograph of one. Ideas would be the triangle formed to make a roof, a triangle musical instrument, the triangle in a butterfly wing, etc. I gave numbers for each shape. The list is done by pages so all the pictures of the triangles will be on the same page, then the pictures of squares, etc. The object of the activity is for kids to see geometry and shapes everywhere as well as get use to the terms. If you try it, please let me know how you like it! Again feel free to adjust the shapes and vocabulary words to make it age appropriate for your child(ren).
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Math Lesson: Finding Shapes and Patterns Everywhere!
2013-10-07T20:11:00-04:00
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