What a Hoot!

Our studies in Life Science have kept us busy learning all about animals. We do this by selecting various library books on our chosen animals, read them at home, discuss the photographs, look at maps of the animal's native land, and then create a notebook page(s) that summarizes what we have learned. The notebook page(s) usually includes a "narration" of information from the books we have read, as well as a project about the animal. Our projects have been watercolor pictures, torn paper collages, pencil sketches, chalk drawings, etc. Our notebooks are a wonderful collection of all that we have learned!

This week we have been studying owls. What an astounding creature! Varieties of them live nearly everywhere...the desert, snowy terrain, cities, meadows, and even jungles.

Here are a few of the things the kids have learned: (in their own words)

Owls eat mice, insects, and small birds.
Owls may live in cactus, old buildings, trees, farms, cities, snowy places, and just about everywhere!
Owls lay eggs.
The barn owl has a heart shaped face. The horned owl has feathers that look like horns.
The barn owl sometimes makes a nest in the corner of a barn. They like it there because it is a good place to catch mice to eat!
Burrowing owls dig holes with their feet. Then they live in there!
Elf owls are smaller than six inches long!

Here is N finishing up his notebook page about owls.