As part of our botany unit the boys and I learned all about trees. We learned all the different parts of a tree trunk and incorporated some art into our lesson.
We used the tree trunk puzzle from Alison's Montessori to learn the different parts.
We also used our tree slice to get a closer look and observe all the different parts.
using an art lesson from Painted Paper the kids painted different sizes circles.
The art lesson was super easy even my six year old was able to participate. They enjoyed the end result and so did I.
Hi guys! Today I wanted to share with you one of the activities that goes along with our seerah series. The Prophet (SAW) would often go off in seclusion and reflect on the purpose of life. So did a lot of the Anbiya. They were shepherds, this allowed them to stay connected with nature and be in a state of constant reminder of Allah.
I am not a nature lover (there I said it). But after reading the importance of staying connected, I try to make more of an effort to be outside and just sit in silence and reflect. My boys have also gotten into the habit of sitting outside and sketching and connecting with their lord.
It isn't enough to be out in nature, anyone can go outside and just stare at the sky. We must know how to properly reflect and connect it back to the Quran and our purpose of life.
The lesson comes with
1. Material list
2. Nature Reflection Tips and Ideas
3. Step by Step picture instructions
4. Links to Videos
5. Book Suggestions
6. Nature Collage Craft
You can head over to my TPT store to grab this lesson along with other lessons from our Seerah Series.
Hi guys! Today I wanted to share with you our second nature study unit. This time our focus was all things birds. Here are some of the fun activities we worked on.
Some of the books we used during this unit study
Using the Nature Anatomy book the boys drew and labelled the different parts of a bird
We also learned about the 5 basic types of bird feathers.
Bird nests. I asked the boys to pick 4 of their favorite type of nest.
We also played this really fun bird bingo game.
Bird bingo in action
Anatomy of an egg.
To go with what we learned about an egg we did this fun experiment.
If you look really closely you can see some blue where the food color was absorbed.
My water wasn't as dark blue as I would have liked it because I ran out of food coloring but the boys were able to see some result.
We watched Bill Nye birds to help with our unit study
Hi guys! Today I wanted to share with you one of our recent nature study units. We will be doing several units during the spring/summer months. The first unit we started with was all about bees. Here are some of the fun activities we worked on.
Who lives in a colony?
The boys drew the members in a colony (Queen, worker bee, and drone).
Anatomy of a worker Bee:
we focused on the wings, compound eyes, and stinger of a worker bee. We used
bubble wrap to represent the compound eyes, parchment paper for the wings, and we learned that a worker bee has a barbed stinger.
Life Cycle of a bee:
this was a fun hands on way to represent the life cycle. We used a grain of rice for the egg, and a cotton ball for the pupa.
We also did several activities from this book.
This was a short mini unit on bees, since we covered all about bees already. Do you guys enjoy nature studies in your homeschool?
