Sunday, 26 January 2020

Frog Unit Study



Hi guys, today I wanted to share with you our frog unit study. After completing the story of Musa the the older boys had a lot of questions about frogs so I put together a unit study. Here are some of the activities we did.

Notebooking


Compare and contrast frogs and toads. We used the book Frogs by Gail Gibbons and Nature Anatomy to help with our comparison. This was completed by my six year old. I wrote on the white board as he told me the difference and the similarities and he chose to write one of each.


The older boys also did a compare and contrast Reptiles vs. Amphibians. They also wrote a compare and contrast essay using their notes.


Frog Respiratory System

We also completed a narration page on Frog Anatomy, Life Cycle, and the Frogs Organs. 


Crafts


This craft was for my little ones (six and four). We made a frog fly catcher.


After learning about Pond habitat my son painted a pond using the book Under and Over the Pond as inspiration.

Language Arts




We also tied our language arts to this unit study. My four year old worked on the letter F and the letter P. My six year old used spelling words pulled from the book The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. We loosely followed a the curriculum A Year of Tales.


We also did an alphabetical order activity using frog related words. 



Life Cycle





Along with all the activities we did my older boys did a frog dissection. They were grossed out and loved it all at the same time. We purchased our kit from Homeschool Science.


I'll spare you the rest of the images.


Arabic


The older boys translated and did copy work from a short reader Naseem and a frog. The younger ones learned the vocabulary word for frog and fly.



Islamic Studies


For Islamic studies the boys and learned three names of Allah- Al Khalaq, Al Bari, and Al Muswir. We watched a beautiful lecture from Shaikh Yasir Qaidh.

That's the end of our unit. It was a lot of fun and super informative.

Free Unit Study Musa (as) Pt. 2




Hello guys, this is part two of our Musa (as) study. We covered quite a lot this time just because the story was lengthy and full of detail. I broke it up into two parts just for this purpose. I'll quickly go through some of the activities we did and I hope this unit is of help to you.


Arabic




For Arabic we learned the words for sheep, frog, and fly. My son drew in his Arabic notebook and we wrote the letters.

Crafts




For crafts we made a paper chain for the different plagues, we also made a frog fly catcher using paper towel roll, and we made a spiral snake and wrote different facts we learned about snakes.

Narration




I combine our narration and handwriting practice. After each after my son draws and narrates to me. He also works on his handwriting.

Science


For science we did a walking water color mixing activity.

We did so many more activities and all the details are in the lesson. Don't forget to check out part 1 and the unit on Yunus (as). If you found any benefit in these unit studies please drop us a comment.


Click on the image above for the free download of this unit