It’s Fox Week here at Homeschooling in the Rose Garden!!
Today started out with a storybook study/nature study on the wild red fox. I base it on this book by Shirley Woods:
This story is amazing! In fact, I would highly recommend any of Shirley Woods naturalist series. I have all of them and we will be spending most of our time going through these for our storybook and nature studies this year along with Trickle Creeks, Ecojournals. If you enjoy nature study and Charlotte Mason these are the books to get!
We are pairing these two wonderful resources with a few Homeschool Share Lapbook materials. I pick and choose what I use with this to what would help my children specifically. Slowly, throughout the book, we can fill out different portions of the lapbook with answers. For example, the first three chapters we covered several varieties of prey that foxes hunt, two different dens that foxes use and live in, and two different types of barks that foxes will use to warn young and mates. This gave us information for a whole section of the Lapbook and we hadn’t even gotten half way through the book!
Fox Lapbook from Homeschool Share
Here are some videos we found very useful and fun for our Fox study:
Fox Sounds:
5 Wild Fox Kits Playing:
Aesop's Fables about teasing. Aesop's Fable Lapbook (we only used the Fox and the Stork portion).
Aesop's Fables - The Fox and The Stork:
And the last one, just for fun, Foxes jumping on a back yard trampoline!
And that’s just for starters.
2 comments:
This is perfect! We don't homeschool, but my children go to a wonderful Charter School and my daughter just got home today telling me, that her project is investigating foxes :-)
Wonderful Pat! I am glad she is having such a great educational experience. It's all about parent involvement and support. Have a great time studying foxes! THey are SO great! (We even got Christmas cards with foxes on them because the kids were still so invested in the study. :) )
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