Medieval Times, Lessons 18 & 19

Pilgrimages and The Crusades & Richard the Lionhearted and Robin Hood

Stuck to the classics (or rather versions of) for these two lessons. I considered making a bow and arrow set as a craft with Tessa, but we already have Merida's bow (from Brave) and a Nerf Rebelle Heartbreaker Bow hanging about. I will say Tessa really liked reading about Robin Hood, though. It always amazes me how much she loves the classics. Sometimes, I think she understands them better than I do. She enjoys them more for sure! At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if she chooses to study either literature or history in college.

Lesson 18 - Pilgrimages and The Crusades

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 37, 42-43).
• Completed HO map work for Lesson 18, Main Lesson.

Bedtime Read-Aloud

• Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales - Barbara Cohen (We ended up abandoning this book. Tessa said she liked it, but I didn't care for the subject matter at her age.)

Lesson 19 - Richard the Lionhearted and Robin Hood

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 45).
• Read Robin Hood And The Golden Arrow by Robert D. San Souci.

Bedtime Read-Aloud

• Robin Hood - Paul Creswick

* HO = History Odyssey

Earth Science: Weather, Unit 4

Wind

Tessa enjoyed many hands-on activities while studying wind this week. She also made the pinwheel featured on Bill Nye the Science Guy on her own.

Monday

• Read What Is Wind? by Robin Johnson.
• Read The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Wind: Creating Artificial Wind" (page 20). 
• Watched Bill Nye the Science Guy: Wind DVD by Disney.

Tuesday

• Read The Magic School Bus Rides the Wind by Anne Capeci.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Wind: Windy Matchup" (page 22).
• Completed "Wind Vane for Kids" from education.com. (There is a weather vane activity in The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3, but I liked this one better.)

We quickly ran outside to test our weather vane. Luckily, the day was breezy and it worked!

Wednesday

• Read Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Wind: Wonderful Windsocks" (page 23).

We have a ton of washable markers, but none besides black that are permanent. So, instead of drawing designs onto a plastic bag as directed in "Wonderful Windsocks," we used a really cute bag with lime green polka dots that I had stashed away. Tessa cut the fringe and helped me assemble the windsock.

The day was mild and there was a nice breeze, so Tessa had a wonderful time flying her windsock like a kite. It work well when we hung it on a post to tell wind direction too!

Friday

• Tessa read Wind by Marion Dane Bauer during reading.

...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 5

It's Your Story - Tell It!: A Leadership Journey
Girl Scout Daisies

"Girls learn more about the day-to-day needs of animals in preparation for teaching others about animal care."

Download ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 5 handout.

Session 5 - Out and About with Animals

Opening Ceremony, page 62 from "How To Guide"

• Not applicable for our chosen activity.

Field Trip, page 63 from "How To Guide"
(Option: Sounds of Nature Walk)

Since it is the dead of winter here in Missouri, I created a virtual sounds walk of sorts for our Journey girls. I burned the following free MP3 sound files in the order listed below onto audio CDs. The girls played the CDs at home while completing Animal Sounds Match game.

Alternatively, animal sounds could be played straight from a computer with internet access in a troop meeting setting. Just be sure the girls can't see the name of the files on the screen. Or, download the animal sounds files only onto an SD card or thumb drive to play on a computer without internet access. An adult volunteer could act as the narrator for the numbers.

After playing Animal Sounds Match game, Tessa drew a picture of a zebra for the Team Animal Mural.

Downloading the number files might be a teeny bit tricky at first. You'll need to sign up for a free Forvo account to download them. Afterward, click on the appropriate number from my Forvo bluehouseschool favorites list (the number links below take you to the same page). Note the pronouncer's user ID (imscotte1), then click on the appropriate number, locate his ID on that page and then choose "Download MP3" underneath his name. I wish I could have figured out an easier way to link these, but it's really not all that bad once you get going.

• Number One
• Cat Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Two
• Seal Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Three
• Cricket Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Four
• Elephant Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Five
• Frog Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Six
• Wolf Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Seven
• Mosquito Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Eight
• Lion Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Nine
• Zebra Sound
• 5 Seconds of Silence
• Number Ten
• Whale Sound

Animal and insect sounds are from A Zillion Sounds 2.0 (animal sounds, insect sounds). Blank/Silent MP3s are from Xamuel.com. The "5 Seconds of Silence" files are to allow the girls time to make their selections while playing the game with an audio CD.

Role-Play: What Animal Am I?, page 64 from "How To Guide"

• Completed as directed.
• Tessa chose an animal of her choice from Animal Sounds Match game (a zebra) to draw (and cut out) onto a half-sheet of white cardstock for the Team Animal Mural. (Completed zebra shown in the final picture of this post.)

Animals Talk and So Do We, pages 65-66 from "How To Guide"

• Completed activity pretty much as directed, except we used Emotions Roll game to make it a little more fun. (Template for Emotions Roll game die designed by Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs from Teachers Pay Teachers.)
• Completed "Tell a Story Without Words!" matching game on page 48 of the girls' book.

Tessa practiced communicating and identifying emotions with Emotions Roll game.

Closing Ceremony, page 67 from "How To Guide"

• Not applicable.

Tessa's completed work for "...3 Cheers for Animals!" Journey, Session 5. The zebra is for the Team Animal Mural.

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Medieval Times, Lessons 16 & 17

The Christian Church & Medieval Architecture

I really hate that I have been having such a hard time coming up with additional literature for our latest lessons. I feel like we're not covering subjects well enough. There's not much to be done about it, though, since resources are so few and far between. Seriously? No one can write a children's picture book about stained glass? (If I were on a chat board, I would insert one of those confused smileys right about here.)

Sometime, I would like to take Tessa on a tour of a big cathedral. We'll be driving through downtown St. Louis soon, so I plan to point out examples of stained glass and gargoyles then. I know Tessa will get a kick out of finding gargoyles. It will be like a real-life search-and-find.

Lesson 16 - The Christian Church

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 34-35).

Lesson 17 - Medieval Architecture

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 36, 40-41).
• Read "Beauvais Cathedral" (pages 16-19) from Great Building Stories of the Past by Peter Kent.
• Completed "The Original Makit & Bakit" holiday ornaments.

While not the absolute best example of how stained-glass windows are made, I thought these holiday Makit & Bakit ornaments fit the bill well enough for Tessa's age. She hadn't done any of these before, so it was a neat experience for her. Plus, it doubled as a holiday craft.

* HO = History Odyssey

Earth Science: Weather, Unit 3

Precipitation

Snow, rain, sleet and hail...Tessa learned about various forms of precipitation.

Monday

• Read What Is Precipitation? by Robin Johnson.
• Read How Are Rain, Snow, and Hail Alike? by Ellen Lawrence.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Precipitation: Weather Word Wheel" (page 17). 

Tuesday

• Read Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn M. Branley.
• Read Listen to the Rain by Bill Martin.
• Read Come On, Rain by Karen Hesse.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Precipitation: Looks Like Rain" (page 15) and "Going Down!" (page 16).

Tessa conducted a demonstration to see which one falls faster...a raindrop or a snowflake. We used a wadded up piece of blue paper to represent a raindrop and a sheet of white paper of equal size for a snowflake. 

Wednesday

• Read Snow Is Falling by Franklyn M. Branley.
• Read The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder by Mark Cassino.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Precipitation: Frosty Figures" (page 16).

After creating a quick accordion-fold construction paper booklet of various types of snowflakes for "Frosty Figures," Tessa decorated the front cover with snowflakes drawn with glitter glue.

Friday

• Tessa read Snow by Marion Dane Bauer during reading.

Other Books of Interest

• It's Snowing! - Gail Gibbons
• Snowflake Bentley - Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Medieval Times, Lessons 13, 14 & 15

Knights, Castles, Villages & Towns

Due to having to wait on library books and package deliveries, we worked on these three lessons simultaneously. As a result, I've listed our resources by the lesson instead of by the day.

Since knights and castles are still common themes within the current popular toy market, we used pre-packaged activity kits for our fun days instead of making items from scratch. It was nice to just do simple for once.

Lesson 13 - Knights

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 24-25).
• Read The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola.
• Read The Making of a Knight by Patrick O'Brien.
• Read Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges.
• Listened to Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn audiobook by Mary Pope Osborne.
• Completed Perler Dragon Slayer Biggie Beads Fused Beads Kit.

The Perler Dragon Slayer kit includes beads to make a shield, sword and dragon. Tessa started off by piecing together the shield. 

Tessa's completed ensemble. She really had a good time with this kit and got a kick out of slaying the dragon time and again.

Lesson 14 - Castles

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 26-27).
• Read Castle: How It Works by David Macaulay.
• Read Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles by Christopher Maynard.
• Worked on Lego Castle Brickmaster: Make 12 Amazing Lego Models!

In lieu of building a castle from cereal boxes or what-have-you, I bought Tessa the Lego Castle Brickmaster set. It includes an interactive storybook of sorts that tells the story through the mini models that the kids builds.

Tessa's completed models for the first chapter of Lego Castle Brickmaster. There were too many models to build during the two days we worked on this during school time, but the rest will give Tessa several more hours of building fun on her own time.

Lesson 15 - Medieval Villages and Towns

• Read The Usborne Medieval World by Jane Bingham (pages 28-33).
• Read A Street Through Time by Anne Millard up through the Middle Ages.

Bedtime Read-Aloud

• Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess - Richard Platt

We actually read this selection a while back. Scroll through my Read-Alouds - 2013-14 post to find out why.

* HO = History Odyssey

Atelier Art, Level 1 - Module B, Lesson 4

Starry Night

"Starry Night" is an artist appreciation lesson based on Vincent van Gogh's infamous Starry Night. Tessa created her interpretation by drawing with oil pastels onto blue poster board. She also cut and glued shapes from various pieces of colored cardstock for the trees and houses.

Tessa really connected with this lesson and seemed to enjoy it more than other recent lessons. She loves using oil pastels. Later in the week, she created another version of Starry Night on her own. Heck, I even got into this one and created a mini version that I hung next to our school table.

Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night"

Using a picture of van Gogh's "Starry Night" as a guide, Tessa drew the majority of her interpretation with oil pastels.

Tessa cut and glued shapes for the trees and houses from colored cardstock. Afterward, she finished up with oil pastels.

Tessa's completed rendition of "Starry Night." She really had a lot of fun with this one. I think it may be one of her favorites.

Later in the week, Tessa created another version of "Starry Night" with oil pastels and construction paper on her own time. She hung it with poster putty in the hallway, which apparently now is an art gallery.

Inspiration struck as Tessa worked on her original "Starry Night," so I snatched a scrap from the trashcan and went to work. I hung my mini masterpiece, which is only a couple of inches tall, next to the school table. It makes me happy when I look at it for some reason.

Tula the Tulip (Red), Courageous & Strong Petal

Tessa has drawn pictures to earn her last couple of petals, so I really wanted to do something different for her Tula petal. Part of patch requirements is to learn about a woman who is/was courageous and strong. I chose Helen Keller. I read Tessa a children's book about Helen Keller and then we completed a wonderful free hands-on learning activity that I found at Teachers Pay Teachers. I can't say enough good things about the activity. It was a perfect complement. Tessa loved it so much that she made Daddy do it all over again with her when he got home from work. Since it took both of us at full capacity to complete the activity, I wasn't able to take any pics.

What We Did

• Discussed the Tula the Tulip (Red), Courageous & Strong petal.
• Read "Tula's Story: Standing Up for Darla" from The Daisy Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting.
• Talked about "Tula's Story" per badge requirements.
• Read Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark by Johanna Hurwitz. (Check your local library's online digital loan catalog for this title. We borrowed the Kindle version from the comfort of home.)
• Completed free "If We Were Helen & Anne" Helen Keller Activity by Hannah Burns from Teachers Pay Teachers.
• Completed the "Congratulations!" portion of the Tula the Tulip (Red), Courageous & Strong petal.

 

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Zinni the Zinnia (Spring Green), Considerate & Caring Petal

Tessa also earned her Zinni petal during Thanksgiving break. We stuck to the suggested drawing activity in The Daisy Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting for this petal as well. Not overly exciting, I know, but we really would have needed at least a couple of other girls to do much of anything else.

What We Did

• Discussed the Zinni the Zinnia (Spring Green), Considerate & Caring petal.
• Read "Zinni's Story: The Art of Sharing" from The Daisy Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting.
• Talked about "Zinni's Story" per patch requirements.
• Tessa thought of ways she could be more considerate and caring. After discussing her ideas with me, she chose three to illustrate per patch requirements.
• Completed the "Congratulations!" portion of the Zinni the Zinnia (Spring Green), Considerate & Caring petal.

Tessa's illustration of what she could do to be more considerate and caring. She said she could turn down her music before anyone asks her to, share all of her crayons with me (something she doesn't like to do...she likes to hoard the "pretty" colors), and make sure everyone has equal supplies at her troop meetings.

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Sunny the Sunflower (Yellow), Friendly & Helpful Petal

Tessa's Lupe petal was getting rather lonely, so we used our couple of days off from school after Thanksgiving to earn a few more petals for Tessa's vest. We stuck to the suggestions in The Daisy Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting for Sunny's petal. We really had a good time creating a mini mural of what happened at Buckley's party. I loved Tessa's idea of envisioning that the party was underground, so we ran with it. I was in charge of the background. Tessa drew the characters and then raided her craft basket for foam stickers, pom-poms and wiggly eyes.

What We Did

• Discussed the Sunny the Sunflower (Yellow), Friendly and Helpful petal.
• Read "Sunny's Story: A Warm Welcome for Suzy" from The Daisy Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting.
• Talked about "Sunny's Story" per badge requirements.
• Created a mini mural based on "Sunny's Story" per badge requirements. Tessa chose to illustrate what happened at Buckley's party.
• Practiced being friendly and helpful. Tessa helped me collect the trash (and change the bags) from our household trashcans. She also surprised me by filling up our napkin dispenser without being asked. She hadn't ever filled it up before. She was proud to tell me that she knew it was something she could do on her own, so she did it to be helpful.
• Completed the "Congratulations!" portion of the Sunny the Sunflower (Yellow), Friendly and Helpful petal.

Tessa went all out making a mini mural for her Sunny petal. After drawing the characters from "Sunny's Story," (which I think are absolutely adorable...especially Buckley, the gopher) she used foam stickers and pom-poms to decorate Buckley's party. Everyone received tiaras and castles as party favors. Suzy received an extra special tiara to help make her feel welcome. All Tessa's ideas, of course.

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Earth Science: Weather, Unit 2

Clouds

Tessa learned how clouds are formed and the different classifications of clouds through a variety of picture books and learning activities. Many of the activities were a bit of a letdown. Tessa thought we were going to "cook up" a big puffy white cloud, not create a teeny puff of condensation in a jar. Hah!

Tuesday

• Read What Are Clouds? by Ellen Lawrence.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Clouds: Sing a Song of Cloud Types" and "Cooking Up a Cloud" (page 9). 

Wednesday

• Read The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Clouds: Clouds of Foam" (page 8). (This activity didn't work as well as I thought it would. Perhaps we used too much shaving cream?)

Thursday

• Read Clouds by Anne Rockwell.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Clouds: Cloudy Weather Windows" (page 11).

Tessa's completed "Cloudy Weather Windows." She created various types of clouds with cotton balls, labeled them and then illustrated the resultant weather underneath them.

Following Monday

• Tessa read Clouds by Marion Dane Bauer during reading.
• Read Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker.
• Read Little Cloud by Eric Carle.
• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Clouds: Clouds Up Close" (page 10).

All Week Long

• Completed The Mailbox Investigating Weather, Grades 1-3 "Clouds: Cloud Journal" (page 12).

...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 4

It's Your Story - Tell It!: A Leadership Journey
Girl Scout Daisies

"Girls begin to explore how animals, like people, are unique, including in the ways they communicate and move."

Download ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 4 handout.

Session 4 - All Creatures, Great and Special

Opening Ceremony:
Animals Around the World, page 51 from "How To Guide"
(Cheetah: Kenya)

• Pointed out Mari, the marigold, on "The Flower Friends and Their Girl Scout Law Values" poster. (May also be found in the back of the "How To Guide.")
• Used ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 4 map to show where Mari is from and then located Kenya on a globe.
• Shared the italicized parts and other pertinent information from this section with Tessa.
• Visited National Geographic Kids: Animal Creature Features to enjoy facts, photos, sounds, a video and more pertaining to cheetahs.
• Cut out three cheetah spots from black cardstock for the Team Animal Mural. (The girls will add their spots to a cheetah cutout that I printed on gold cardstock.)

Earning the Birdbath Award, page 52 from "How To Guide"

• Congratulated Tessa and ironed her Birdbath Award onto her vest.

For the other girls, I created a Journey Award certificate, placed the background and Birdbath Award patches in a 3 x 5 in. plastic bag (purchased from Michael's with a coupon) with the zipper seal cut off and folded over, then stapled it to the middle of the certificate. Printing on cardstock works best. I also made a copy of the ironing instructions for their moms.

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Story Time:
“The First Stories” (continued), page 53 from "How To Guide"

• Completed pages 24-27 of the girls' book.

This section seemed too much like Session 3, so instead of making up another pourquoi tale, Tessa completed the remaining activities from "The First Stories" section of the girls' book. I still haven't found any place in the "How To Guide" instructing us to actually do so.

Tessa's completed work from pages 24-25 of the girls' book. The red robin picture is from the drawing lesson mentioned in the Closing Ceremony section below.

Get Creative!

Fantastical Animals Flip Book, pages 54-55 from "How To Guide"

• Completed flip book activity as directed.

Flip books can be tricky to create, so I designed a simple three-page flip book for the girls to color and use for this activity. Instead of using expensive binders, I used cardstock and brads that I already had on-hand to bind the pages. After printing the three animal pages, place a sheet of cardstock behind them and a one-inch strip of cardstock at the top. Use a three-hole punch to punch holes. Tightly fasten the brads through the holes.

Okay, it's not really quite as simple as that. The best way to do this is to pre-punch the holes. Punch the cardstock together. Punch the printed animal pages together. For the one-inch strips, it's easiest to punch the holes, then use a paper cutter to cut a strip. Punch holes again, then cut another one-inch strip and so on until you have enough. Have the girls color the animal pages and then cut to the "STOP" lines. Assemble the flip books as listed in my simplified directions above.

I had a very hard time coming up with animal clip art that matched up well enough to design a flip book. The animals have to be just so for them to work. In the end, I settled on three animals...a cheetah, zebra and alligator. They worked pretty well together.

This was Tessa's favorite flip-book animal. She called it an alcheze (get it...al-ligator, che-etah, ze-bra). She came up with the name on her own. I thought it was pretty clever. She decided that it gives birth to live babies, is good at kicking (with its hooves) and also chomping (with its big teeth). Tessa thought the world would be one heck of a boring place if all animals and all people were the same. She also said we wouldn't be able to tell people apart or have as much food.

Busy Squirrels Song and Dance, page 56 from "How To Guide"

• Completed activity as directed (minus coming up with a new version of the song).

Tessa loved "The Busy Squirrels Song." We sang and acted it out four times.


Closing Ceremony:
Moving Toward the Red Robin Award, page 57 from "How To Guide"

• Completed Learn to Draw a Robin.

This section was difficult to adapt to the home environment, but was too complex for the few minutes I spend with our Journey girls before each troop meeting, so I swapped the ceremony for the cute drawing lesson above. I think it sufficiently psyched up Tessa for the next part of the Journey. You can see her drawing in Story Time section photo above.

Looking for more activities to complement the ...3 Cheers for Animals! Journey?

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...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 3

It's Your Story - Tell It!: A Leadership Journey
Girl Scout Daisies

"The girls use their imagination and problem-solving skills as they continue to explore how the needs of animals are similar to their own."

Download ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 3 handout.

Session 3 - Tail Tales

Opening Ceremony:
Animals Around the World, page 45 from "How To Guide"
(Robin: Great Britain)

• Pointed out Sunny, the sunflower, on "The Flower Friends and Their Girl Scout Law Values" poster. (May also be found in the back of the "How To Guide.")
• Used ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 3 map to show where Sunny is from and then located Great Britian on a globe.
• Read “American Robin” (pages 6-7) from Birds, Nests and Eggs. Showed Tessa the picture of the robins on page 45 of the “How To Guide” and read the caption.
• Visited allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/id for facts, photos, sounds, videos and more pertaining to robins.
• Crafted “Cheer-i Robin” to add to the Team Animal Mural. (I based my design on "Rockin' Robin" from Happy Hooligans.)

Tessa crafted a cheery robin with cardstock, crumpled red tissue paper and a wiggly eye for the Team Animal Mural.

Tessa's completed “Cheer-i Robin."

Story Time:

“The First Stories,” page 46 from "How To Guide"

• Read pages 16-23 from the girls' book.
• Discussed the story as directed in the “How To Guide.”

Spin-a-Tale, page 46 from "How To Guide"

• Tessa retold the story of how Robin, the red robin, became red in her own words.
• Shared information with Tessa about folk and pourquoi tales from this section of the “How To Guide.”
• Tessa created her own pourquoi tale by completing the “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” drawing prompt.

Tessa's completed “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” drawing prompt. First, she drew how the zebra looked before it got its stripes. Then, she drew how the zebra got its stripes...a striped snake slithered underneath the zebra's hooves. The snake's stripes transferred onto the zebra. The zebra graphic shows how the zebra looks today.

Fly, Fly Away, page 47 from "How To Guide"

• Tessa used homemade ribbon dance streamers and music from Girl Scouts Greatest Hits, Vol. 11: Amazing Daisies by Melinda Caroll to complete the activity as directed.

Tessa had a blast dancing with her streamers. I tied three three-foot-long pieces of grosgrain ribbon in their middles to two elastic pony tail holders. (Six pieces of ribbon in all.) Afterward, I sealed the edges with something akin to Fray Check. I created these dance streamers for each of our Journey girls. A simpler option would be to tape or glue strands of crepe paper to craft sticks or staple them to plastic straws. Even simpler...do what's listed the "How To Guide."

Tessa danced exuberantly during the Fly, Fly Away portion of the session.

Role-Play: Choices, Choices, page 48 from "How To Guide"

• Completed activity as directed. Tessa chose Scenario 1. Her completed cloud-shaped draw and write prompt is pictured above with her pourquoi tale.

Closing Ceremony:
Animal-Care Ideas, page 49 from "How To Guide"

• Tessa drew a picture of a favorite item that she uses to care for herself on a pink bird cutout. She placed the drawing (pictured above with her pourquoi tale) in her previously crafted “All About Me” nest.

Looking for more activities to complement the ...3 Cheers for Animals! Journey?

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