Nature Connections: February

This is my photo of the month-The snow was almost covering my car! It was a lot of work to dig it out.

Children can keep their February photo with their January photo and eventually use them to make a monthly photo book. (Explained in the January blog) 

Activity: How do animals stay warm in the winter: 

First you can ask children to brainstorm how humans stay warm in the winter and how animals stay warm in the winter. Write down the list.

Here is my list:



You can then do various lessons representing how animals stay warm.

The blubber experiment (Explained in the Blue Whale Blog) is on example



Another example uses a glove to represent hair and plastic wrap under the glove to represent excess fat.


Activity: Shadows

Children will love looking at shadows during this time of year.

One activity that they would have a lot of fun with is creating a shadow with different materials. For examples if you made different shapes with cardboard boxes, it would create a very interesting shadow. They could take a picture of their shadow or make a video of themselves and their shadow. They could also use an app like My Story to create a story about their shadow.

Shadow Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ne6J0aXvfs

The children could write a poem about their shadow or their shadow sculptures

Here is my shadow poem: 

My Shadow

My shadow is so silly

She always copies me

When I run, she runs,

We both sit under the tree

Sometimes she is hiding, 

Nowhere to be seen

But when she comes back out, 

She's as funny as can be. 

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