Nature Study on an Island

Bong Tree

Hoche Cave once inhabited by Portuguese Sailors

What is this?

Desert flowers are small but beautiful.

Moringa trees grow naturally here.

The infamous bottle tree.

hunh?

Can you see our vehicle?

a fish my dh caught for breakfast.

Egyptian Vulture..very pesky.

By for now....

Butterfly Lapbook

Our butterfly lapbooks wrapped up our study of botany this year. The butterfly is intricately involved in pollination which is where we left off in our investiagation of flowers.

View of the insides. This lapbook is made by TJ

 Camoflage! by TJ

What butterflies eats mini book by Max

 Who eats the butter fly mini books by Max

Life cycle pages by Zak

Butterfly life cycle montessori cards by Max

Life Cycle wheel by Zak

Copywork of The Caterpiller and the 1 Corintinas 5:17 by Max

The anatomy of a butterfly by Max

We put together this mural of a butterfly.
We read The Tale of Besty the Butterfly by Arthur Scott Bailey
We also read From Caterpiller to Butterfly

Lastly we spent hours with our nets capturing butterflies and letting them go.

Honey Bees

Our honey bee lapbooks in the making.

Lapbook covers in order...Zak's then Tj's and finally Max's cover. They are all so different. I love it!

The bee hive cover is free clip art found here.

Bee hive pictures coincide with a narrative about how the bees make the wax. The book is a simple one. I took heavy black paper and folded it in half. Then I cut bright yellow printer paper to fit the book. To bind it I punched hole with a hole pucher and tied it together with black embroidary floss.

The 'kinds of bees' mini books pictures are found here, and the info about the bees found in The First Book of bees by Albert Tibbits.

Life cycle of the bee wheel is from Homeschool Share

The anatomy of the bee mini book found here.

The honey harvesting process mini books, 9 in all are found here.

A friend gave us this fun kit to make bees wax candles. The boys are standing behind the candle they made.

I created this copywork notebook. It's FREE at Currclick!

The boys are just about finished with it. They like to work on it while I read.

We read the following books during this mini unit:

The Magic School House Inside a Beehive

The Adventires of Maya the Bee or with comprehension question here.

The First Book of Bees

The Tales of Buster the Bee

and we watched...City of the Bees. One of the Moddy Science Videos