Horses

After a week long chicken pox/spring break, J requested that we learn about horses. We have several informational books on horses but no real core book. This is what we worked on.

We compared horses and zebras. Zebras are actually from the horse family so they are very similar.

Keke found a book in the library of horse coloring pictures. J chose a few and I printed them off for her to color. She is really taking her time to color in the lines. It is neat to look back and see how she was coloring/cutting a year ago to now.

We discussed the life cycle of a horse and J colored the cycle.

We found all of her horses in the animal bin and J measured them using our Inchimals. We discussed how horses are measured.

After we pulled the horses out, she played with them the rest of the day.

Our nursery rhyme is Peas Porridge. J is coloring the sheet for her nursery rhyme book.

J did a small craft that I found in one of my trade books. She cut out the peas and pod and sequenced the rhyme.

We searched through old magazines and found pictures of items J likes to eat. We separated them into hold/cold and she glued them on the soup pot. It was difficult for J to just look at the food in the magazines, she wanted to cut out every cute animal picture! Our next week will consist of learning about seeds and we will be participating in a virtual book club of the month. Can't wait. We are counting down the days 'til summer break. We have about seven more weeks and we are excited about seeing our family soon. Hope your week has been sunny and warm! Enjoy!

Two online books about horses in case you would like to read about them:

Ponies and Horses

See How They Grow - Ponies

Horse worksheets

Horse Life Cycle

Nursery Rhyme resource