Botany Unit Bundle Pack

My Botany Unit Bundle Pack is finally up!  It contains the following individual learning packs (3-part cards and booklets):

• The Plant
• The Tree
• The Leaf
• The Flower
• The Seed

My son is loving our materials.  We started using them already last week  and we're wrapping our "plant" study before we move on to the "tree". 

Botany Unit Lessons

I mentioned in my previous post that we're doing Botany this month :)  I've been waiting for a "summer" weather for this unit so we could do lots of outdoor learning and mother nature is finally cooperating.

Anyway, here's what we're going to have this month:

• plant
• tree
• leaf
• seed
• flower (not in the picture because I run out of green cardstock)

The materials that we are using are from my Botany Unit Bundle Pack.  You can read more about it here.

Tree Shapes Outdoor Activity (Worksheet and Printable)

Because of the wonderful weather, I decided to throw a Botany Unit for this month.  We've got plenty of trees around the estate, all with different shapes so I was thinking that we should jump-start our Botany lessons with Tree Shapes.

So I made him a learning material that would help us identify the tree shapes in our estate... and hopefully use it this weekend as we visit the park.  This is an activity sheet that is included in the printable material, Tree Shapes.  We've also brought along our green do-a-dot marker with our worksheet.

Sifting and Discovering Gems!

This is one activity my son truly enjoyed :)  We never had "practical life" activities for quite a while and I was thinking to re-introduce some of it.

                

For this activity, I poured some flour on a bowl and added some gemstones we got from a recent trip to a leisure park.  Then I gave him a sifter to uncover all those precious gems!

                

And it is also a good practice in math! Try counting how many gems you discovered :) 

You can also use sand instead of flour and beads, letters, numbers or objects instead of the gems.

Try it! You're kids will looove it!

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