Owls

We finished up week one of winter in the woods with Mother Goose Time by learning about owls.

We talked about food chains and what sort of things owls eat.  The girls played a game of Who Eats Who.  They would each turn over a card, and whoever had the animal that was higher on the food chain won the cards.  We also talked about the difference between carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores.  

For today's invitation to create the girls were given paper, feathers, cupcake liners, markers and glue.  They had a picture of an owl for inspiration.  Elli glued her cupcake liners onto her paper and added some feathers and said it was an owl with a baby.  Addie made a baby owl by gluing the cupcake liners together and adding feathers.  She attached it to a paper with the mother owl she drew.  The girls both love the invitations to create, which are a new feature this year.  Addie always asks if we can save them for when she gets home from school, and has even asked if I can give her random objects with a picture so she can make her own invitations to create.  She has started saving all kinds of little bits and pieces from around the house and glues them into different animal shapes, or objects like airplanes and boats.  

One of the letters of the month is O.  The girls took turns rolling the pocket cube, and if it landed on O they had to run around the oval made of blocks and pretend to be an owl.

The girls completed the o page in their my little journals by tracing their hand and turning into a tree.  Then they drew O eyes in the tree and made them into owls.  Next week we learn about the woodland.