Adventures in Mommydom

Hands on learning for active learners

  • Home page
    • Start Here
    • About Us
    • Get all of the posts now!
    • Disclosure and other blogging information
  • Homeschooling
    • Homeschool Curriculum
    • Why I homeschool (comments from a former teacher)
    • Homeschooling and the Holidays
  • History and geography
    • Ancient History Lessons
    • Modern History lessons
    • American History Lessons
    • LEGO history
  • Science
  • Bible Curriculum
  • STORE

How to write an animal report with free printable

October 11, 2017 By Ticia 23 Comments

animal report printable and rubric for elementary

This past week we read about platypus.  They’re fascinating creatures that don’t really fit into any of our categories of animals perfectly.  It’s got a bill like a duck, it’s body is rather like that of a badger, it’s tail looks like a beaver tail, it lays eggs, but it suckles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: science Tagged With: land animals, printable, Science Sunday, zoology

Using art to teach science, let kids act it out

September 8, 2017 By Ticia 11 Comments

using art and role play to teach science sometimes it gets blurry

I remember very distinctly an art project we did in 4th grade. We sat there with a brown paper bag, and we worried at it, and crumpled it, and generally abused the paper bag until it had a texture similar to leather. This was then tied into the Native American living in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: arts and crafts Tagged With: kid crafts, land animals, Science Sunday, zoology

How did dinosaurs digest food?

April 12, 2017 By Ticia 14 Comments

how do dinosaurs digest their food question

Little kids love dinosaurs and my kids are no exception to that rule.  So anytime I can bring a bit of dinosaur knowledge into their science lessons it's a big hit.  This time we looked at how did dinosaurs digest food? This experiment can work equally well for birds or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: science Tagged With: flying creatures, land animals, Science Sunday, zoology

Elementary Biology lessons

September 14, 2015 By Ticia 11 Comments

Biology for kids over 50 ideas

Last year I was overly amibitious.  I decided to cover two homeschool science curriculums in the same year.  It was a little crazy, but my kids enjoyed the material, so it turned out well.  This year is a bit of a review year because we’ve covered biology before, but we started … [Read more...]

Filed Under: science Tagged With: anatomy, flying creatures, land animals, swimming creatures, zoology

Farm animals unit

July 25, 2014 By Ticia 3 Comments

farm animals unit

A farm animals unit is great for early elementary and preschool kids, and I’ll freely admit most of these posts are geared for that age range.  We studied many of these animals in kindergarten and preschool, but some of these were also studied during second grade. Cows and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: science Tagged With: farm, land animals, zoology

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 10
  • Next Page »
Ticia Adventures in Mommydom Hi, I'm Ticia! This is the adventures of my family in life and learning. Follow along with us as we share our adventures. We're having a lot of fun and learning as we go.

Help!!!! I need to know:

Categories

 book and a movie combo

Everyday Graces

Copyright © 2019 ·