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Over the past week, as part of our focus on Fall, we got a little squirrelly around here. We did squirrel art using crushed up shredded wheat to create "bushy" tails. I just love my nephew's Indiana Jones Squirrel!
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We read The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrice Potter and Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert.
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We got a bit nutty too and made homemade nut butter by roasting mixed nuts and then pureeing them in the food processor with oil (2 T oil per 1 cup nuts).
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And a visit to Nana's house provided the perfect nature outing for Selby to log in her nature journal. Nana showed us the mess squirrels had left on her driveway after a feeding frenzy. Dozens of pine cone scales were scattered about, along with the naked remains of the cone. (The squirrels eat the pine seeds, hidden under the scales.) Selby collected a few scales and some pine needles from the driveway and glued them in her nature journal. She also drew the "scene" complete with a squirrel and we're writing a small story about what she saw and learned.
This week's focus: apples & harvesting.
2 comments:
Wishing I had a nature journal, too....
indiana jones squirrel? so awesome. my sis-in-law was telling me that there is an indiana jones mister potato head. selby's made me giggle. i love her playfulness.
could you tell us a bit more about her nature journal, liz?
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