All About Mammals

For the past week and a half, Caitie and Charlee have been studying mammals. They learned the basic characteristics of mammals such as they have fur and they give live birth to their young versus eggs. They were each given the chance to select one mammal and prepare a poster about that mammal. Caitie chose cats and Charlee chose giraffes.

It's hard to see the posters in the picture. Each girl found a real picture of their animal online. They also were able to find a blank picture and color it to their liking. For each animal, they researched the animal's physical description, habitat, enemies, protection methods, where it would be located in the world, the name for male, female and baby, other animal relatives, diet and interesting facts. Caitie learned that the domestic cat was the most popular pet in the world and that there were over 500 million of them. Charlee was shocked to learn that the giraffe had 4 stomachs. Charlee was also lucky enough that she could find a map labeling the places giraffes could be found. 

The girls will be using this project idea for each of the animal classes. 

The Sweet or Salty Taste Test

Chey and Monkey are learning about The 5 Senses. In honor of the sense of taste, we held a mini taste test party to see if snacks were sweet or salty. I allowed Caitie and Charlee to do this assignment with them even though this is not their current lesson.

For this project, I provided the following snacks:

• Applesauce
• Pretzel Sticks
• Potato Chips
• Fruit Snacks
• Peanuts
• Apple Slices

As the girls tasted each snack, they had to decide if it was sweet or salty. Once decided, they checked the appropriate box on their paper. 

Here is the link to the check off paper if you use the exact snacks from above. This is one project the girls thoroughly enjoyed!

Crafts....

The kids were completely devastated that we missed the Build and Grow Workshop at Lowe's one week. Charlee was even in tears! So, in an effort to make amends with them, we bought them some crafts to work on at home. I know they weren't the same as using a hammer to build something, but we tried. Tina and Carly did them as well, but I never got a picture of them. Yet, anyway.

On Day #1 we took foam circles and decorated them with foam shapes.

Caitie:

Charlee:

Cheyenne:

Courtney:

On Day #2, we were supposed to be making animal key chains out of beads. Well, ditsy Mommy here couldn't figure them out. So, we made the animal shapes on foam circles.

Caitie (Kitten):

Charlee (LadyBug):

Cheyenne (Bunny):

Courtney (Monkey):

On Day #3, we made key chains out of beads. Caitie and Charlee made {close to} identical ones. And on Day #4, we made name bracelets.

Caitie:

Charlee:

Cheyenne:

Courtney: