Owls

We finished Owls a week and a half ago and I am just now posting about it! Sorry! Here is a quick re-cap of what we did during our owl study.

We introduced owls by reading Good-Night Owl by Pat Hutchins. This story had

lots of colorful illustrations and we learned that owls sleep during the day and are awake at night. This is called nocturnal. We made our own owls with fun scrapbook paper. We made sure to include big eyes to remember owls have good eye sight.

 

   

We did a guided drawing with these owls and then used water colors to paint them. A guided drawing means I drew the owl step by step and they had to listen and watch my directions and copy it onto their paper. It definitely makes them focus! They did a great job!

 

We talked about four types of Owls during our unit. We made a class chart of each owl with what they ate, where they lived, how tall they were and how long their wings were. It was a good way for us to compare the owls and see how they were the same and how they were different.

Here are our Snowy Owls:

  

Our Great Horned Owls:

 

We also talked about the Barn Owl and the Pygmy Owl. Charles came to our class again and showed us what all of these owls looked like AND sounded like! The kids loved it and learned lots of fun facts.

At the end of our unit the kids got to pick their favorite owl to make with whatever materials they wanted. Lots of them painted, some used markers and some used construction paper. They made sure to make them look like the real owls would look!