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Preschool Science

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

November 30, 2007 |

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I love watching Kyrie learn about the world. She is four, and my youngest child. I think
she may be the last since I am nearly 48 but you never know…She is learning to count with fruit loops, and stringing them in order of color..she is learning to stay away from the rooster..she is learning that she can smile and her older brothers will be reduced to mere slaves…

Anyway she loves to watch the various dramas that nature provides around here…she has plenty of opportunity since we have livestock, live along a creek, and have old trees. And then of course, watching brothers is always a foray into the wild world, as well.

One of the projects that makes a preschooler feel like a big kid is to make a book, and a nature book is just the ticket. Of course, they will want to sleep with it, and carry it to the store and show it to cashiers and the guy that takes the groceries out so you want it to be pretty sturdy.

The answer is baggies. Yep. Ziploc sandwich bags.

Take several bags, say 5 or so and cut pieces of posterboard to fit inside. Write the title and the author, as well as the date, on a piece of posterboard and slip it inside the ziploc. Zip closed.

Now, go gather some leaves. Try to get different sizes and shapes. Be sure to not what type of plant the leaves came from.

Put a leaf beneath a sheet of plain paper and have your child do a rubbing with a crayon. He may need to practice to get just the right pressure. Write the name of the plant under the rubbing and attach the paper to the posterboard with a glue stick. You child can do most of this depending on his age. Repeat the process with each leaf. You can, if you wish, rub a thin layer of glue across the leaf and add glitter.

Put the pages inside the ziplocs and seal. Punch 3 holes on the edge of each ziploc by the seal. Stack the bags up in order and run yarn through the holes to put the book together.

I will have to find one of Kyrie’s to take a picture of.

Blogs I love today:

Kate at I Think Therefore I Blog wrote a great post on homeschool mom fashion

Mrs G at Derfwad Manor had me cracking up with her…uh…own botany projects.


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