Outdoor Hour–Nature Close To Home: Mammals–Squirrel’s

God Created the……..Squirrel

BUT first let me share about WEATHER……………

Today we had Cirrus Clouds in the sky, it is a BEAUTIFUL sky!! We did a little “school” outside and then started for a walk. We ended up spending time down at the lake playing, sitting and laying under this beautiful sky. The boys and I did end up sketching in our nature journals and looking in their weather lapbooks to find out what type of wind we were having. We were having what you would call a “light breeze, #2” on a Beaufort Wind Scale.

Here are the Nature Journal Pics from my boys. My oldest sketched wild onions (1st pic) and my youngest sketched the cirrus clouds he was seeing in the sky (2nd pic).

Here are their great WEATHER Lap books (from Heart and Trees)

O.K. now I’ll move onto to our Study about Mammals and this week in particular…. Squirrel’s. We started this yesterday and continued it today. The pic below is of my boys working on a Squirrel informational coloring sheet.

After they colored I went over some information about Squirrel’s from the Handbook of Nature Study book.

Here I was reading to my boys after we had a little picnic in the living room. I was reading to them about squirrel’s from the Burgess Animal Book for Children. Yesterday we also kept going to our window looking out at the feeder to see if we had any squirrels visiting us.

8:30am: We had about four

10:30am: Only One

11:30pm: None

12:03pm: None

Today we didn’t keep track of the time but we got to see up to three squirrels at once at our bird feeder. Here is one of them above and check my other pics of what we observed below.