This past week we have been discussing how animals prepare for and survive through winter. We noticed that we are getting colder and must put on warmer clothes but what do the animals do in the winter months?
Here are some of our questions and explorations....How do the animals stay warm?
Where do they go in the winter?
What do they eat in the winter?
How do they get food?
Where do they sleep?
How long do they sleep?
Which animals hibernate?
What can we do to help them?
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| Grey squirrel, grey squirrel, swish your busy tail! We found out you can make grey by mixing black and white! Building dens, caves and nests with different materials  |
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| "I'm like a bird right now collecting things to make my nest!" |
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| The finished nest! |
We discussed how it was difficult for animals to find food in the ice and snow. The children were given an ice cube with an orange slice inside. They pretended that they were an animal that was trying to get their food out of the ice. They loved this experiment and were very persistent in trying to get to the orange!
We decided to make bird feeders to hang around the grounds of Roseland School to help our little animal friends. We used paper towel rolls, lard and birdseeds in hopes of fattening up the birds and squirrels for the winter.
It was a wonderful experience for all of us! We will go check on our bird feeders in a few weeks to see if they are being used. If so, we will make some more later in the winter.
After this, we pretended we were different animals in the wintertime. We tried out different positions with our bodies to see which would be the warmest for an animal.
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| We decided that curling up in a ball was definitely the warmest position! |
Making hibernating animals and their
habitats with plastercine!
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| What a beautiful collage of animals! |
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