Moths

This week is National Moth Week. Here are some links to learn more about moths.

National Moth Week Find activities for kids and more.

How can you tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth? | Library of Congress

Evening Primrose Moth

Evening Primrose Moth | BugTracks

Evening Primrose Moth | inaturalist Photos of the caterpillar.

Primrose Moth | iconservancy

Primrose Moth: Schinia florida | naturetales

Hummingbird Moth/ White Lined Sphinx Moth

White Lined Sphinx Moth or Hummingbird Moth

Taken by a Teenie Genie Compact Lantana

January 23, 2019

Here are some different types of moths and butterflies.

Tangled Web: July 2012

Ladybug Theme

Ladybug, ladybug, ladybugs everywhere! We all know this cute insect as a ladybug. It is called a ladybug, a lady beetle, or ladybird (in Britain). If you have plants or weeds, the you have one happy bug. They are hunting for bugs to eat. Having these fun ladybugs around is excellent for the environment, your health, and the health of the ones around you. If you let nature take over then there will not be all the bad pesticides that harms everything. Save your environment (and yourself and others) by having ladybugs in your garden.


Here are some photos I took.

Ladybug on a Little John Bottlebrush 

March 31, 2020 

March 15, 2011 

Ladybugs on a Brittlebush

Ladybugs | National Geographic
Ladybugs | National Geographic Kids

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Ladybug Rock Craft
Wash a smooth rock.
Let dry.
Paint the rock red.
Let dry.
Paint a face on it.
Paint black spots on its back.
Let dry.


3D Paper Ladybug Craft With Template | Easy Peasy and Fun

SNACKS

Healthy Ladybug Bread
Take a biscuit or flat roll and spread strawberry cream cheese on it. (Daiya Cheese has a dairy-free version).
Place raisins on the cream cheese to make a head and spots on its back.
Enjoy!

Videos
Wing folding/unfolding in Ladybugs | YouTube


Note: Other resources coming soon. 

Weaving Crafts

Here are some links to weaving crafts.

Paper Plate Weaving How To | Red Ted Art
Paper Plate Weaving | Make a Doll Hammock |Tinker Lab
Rainbow Paper Plate Weaving Project | Pink Stripey Socks
Weaving | Natural Suburbia
Weaving Cute Baby Turtles Using God's Eye Weaving Pattern | Pink Stripey Socks
Weaving With Kids | Art Bar Blog

Presidents of the United States

United States Presidents in Chronological Order

PRESIDENT TERM
1. George Washington (April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797)
2. John Adams (March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801)
3. Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809)
4. James Madison (March 4, 1809 - March 4, 1817)
5. James Monroe (March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825)
6. John Quincy Adams (March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829)
7. Andrew Jackson (March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837)
8. Martin Van Buren (March 4, 1837 - March 4, 1841)
9. William Henry Harrison (March 4, 1841 - April 4, 1841)
10. John Tyler (April 4, 1841 - March 4, 1845)
11. James K. Polk (March 4, 1845 - March 4, 1849)
12. Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850)
13. Millard Fillmore (July 9, 1850 - March 4, 1853)
14. Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 - March 4, 1857)
15. James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 - March 4, 1861)
16. Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865)
17. Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (March 4, 1877 - March 4, 1881)
20. James Garfield (March 4, 1881 - September 19, 1881)
21. Chester Arthur (September 19, 1881 - March 4, 1885)
22. Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1885 - March 4, 1889)
23. Benjamin Harrison (March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893)
24. Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1893 - March 4, 1897)
25. William McKinley (March 4, 1897 - September 14, 1901)
26. Theodore Roosevelt (September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1909)
27. William Howard Taft (March 4, 1909 - March 4, 1913)
28. Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 - March 4, 1921)
29. Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923)
30. Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1929)
31. Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933)
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945)
33. Harry S. Truman (April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953)
34. Dwight Eisenhower (January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961)
35. John F. Kennedy (January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963)
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969)
37. Richard Nixon (January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974)
38. Gerald Ford (August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977)
39. Jimmy Carter (January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981)
40. Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989)
41. George Bush (January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993)
42. Bill Clinton (January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001)
43. George W. Bush (January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009)
44. Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2017)
45. Donald Trump (January 20, 2017 - present)

Presidents of the United States by Birth Month

 
January
7: Millard Fillmore (1800)
9: Richard Nixon (1913)
29: William McKinley (1843)
30: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)

February 6: Ronald Reagan (1911)
9: William Harrison (1773)
12: Abraham Lincoln (1809)
22: George Washington (1732)

March
15: Andrew Jackson (1767)
18: Grover Cleveland (1837)
16: James Madison (1751)
29: John Tyler (1790)

April
13: Thomas Jefferson (1743)
23: James Buchanan (1791)
27: Ulysses Grant (1822)
28: James Monroe (1758)

May
8: Harry Truman (1884)
29: John F. Kennedy (1917)
12: George H. Bush (1924)
14: Donald Trump (1946)

July
4: Calvin Coolidge (1872)
6: George W. Bush (1946)
11: John Quincy Adams (1767)
14: Gerald Ford (1913)

 
August
4: Barack Obama (1961)
10: Herbert Hoover (1874)
20: Benjamin Harrison (1833)
27: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908)

September
15: William Taft (1857)

October
1: Jimmy Carter (1924)
4: Rutherford Hayes (1822)
5: Chester Arthur (1830)
14: Dwight Eisenhower (1890)
27: Theodore Roosevelt (1858)
30: John Adams (1735)

November
2: James Polk (1795)
2: Warren Harding (1865)
19: James Garfield (1831)
23: Franklin Pierce (1804)
24: Zachary Taylor (1784)

December
5: Martin Van Buren (1782)
28: Woodrow Wilson (1856)
29: Andrew Johnson (1808)

Links 
Presidents | Whitehouse.gov - Learn More About Each President
List of Presidents of the United States | PresidentsUSA.net - Including facts and information.

January: How Many Words Can You Make? | DBL Blog
February: How Many Words Can You Make? | DBL Blog
March: How Many Words Can You Make? | DBL Blog

Fall Theme

FALL POEMS
It is the summer's great last heat,
It is the fall's first chill: They meet.
– Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

BOOK ACTIVITY
Fall Leaves Fall! Book Activities
1.  Read Fall Leaves Fall! by Zoe Hall.
2.  Go outside.  Talk about the different kinds of leaves (what they look like, sizes, colors, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, etc.).
3.  Stomp on the leaves.
4.  Sing The Leaves on The Trees.
5.  Try to catch the falling leaves.
6.  Make a big pile of leaves and jump on them.
7.  Collect some leaves. Go back inside. 
8.  Art & Crafts

Do leaf rubbings.  Do it in different colors like red, yellow, orange, brown, and green.  Cut them out to have for the song and the words of the song for each child.

Fall Picture
Collect leaves, twigs, rocks, pine needles, etc. Glue them onto a piece of paper.  Make animals, people, or other objects.  Draw or paint arms onto them.

9.  HOME ECONOMICS/BAKING
Leaf Cookies: Bake leaf cookies.  Frost and  then decorate them using sprinkles, etc.

Leaf Biscuits: Bake leaf biscuits.  Serve with jams, preserves, or jellies that are the same color as fall leaves (or use any flavor).

MUSIC

The Leaves on The Tree
Sung to: "The Wheels on The Bus"
Copyright © 2000, 2004 Barbara Pratt.  All rights reserved.

The leaves on the tree are falling down,
falling down, falling down.
The leaves on the tree are falling down,
Red, yellow, orange, and brown.

Note: Drop leaves from above your head as the color is mentioned in the song.

The leaves on the ground go crunch, crunch, crunch,
crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
The leaves on the ground go crunch, crunch, crunch.
All through the fall.

Note: Have the child/children pretend they are crunching leaves on the ground while singing this verse.

Other Music / Songs
Autumn Day #247: Children's Songbook

ARTS AND CRAFTS
Leaf Painting
Using a paint brush, brush paint onto various leaves (vein side up).  Place the paint side down of the leaf onto the paper.  Place a piece of wax paper over the leaves.  Roll a rolling pin or bottle across the leaves.  Remove wax paper and leaves.

Leaf Rubbing
Place your leaf (vein side up) under your piece of paper (tape it on for younger children) and take a crayon and rub your leaf. Do it in different colors like red, yellow, orange, brown, and green.

Leaf Art
Cut a leaf pattern (using the links on this page) out of thick paper or glue on a piece of cardboard. Design your leaf pattern by gluing cold cereal, noodles (colored or plain), oatmeal, or rice on it.

Feather Art
Take a small colored paper plate (or white if you like). Glue a lot of feathers on the plate. Make a hole using a hole puncher. In order to hang it, place a piece of yarn and tie it in a knot or a small piece of pipe cleaner and twist it together. Let the glue dry.

Crumbled Leaf Art
Collect some leaves. Let dry.  Brush some glue on paper and sprinkle the dried leaves on.

Fall Collage
Go on a walk. Collect leaves, flowers, twigs, etc.  Brush some glue on paper.  Place the items you collected onto the paper.  Let dry.

Fall Picture
Collect leaves, twigs, rocks, pine needles, etc. Glue them onto a piece of paper.  Make animals, people, or other objects.  Draw or paint arms onto them.

MATH
Leaf Math
Cut the number of a leaf pattern you would like.  For example, I cut 12 red maple leaves from Kids Domain (listed on this page).  Laminate.  Write various addition or subtraction problems on index cards. For example, 1+1= 1+2=,... Have the child use this as manipulatives to figure out the answer to the problems on the cards.  Make an activity sheet with the problems you have on the index cards. Have them write the answers by the problem.  You can have older children write the problems you have on the index cards onto a piece of paper and write the answer by each problem.

Acorn Math
Follow the above directions except use the acorn patterns located at TeachNow.com for this activity.

I have some acorn math for sale at TeachersPayTeachers. Go to the below link to view them.
Acorn eBooks @ TPT Desert Blossom Learning

Acorn
Acorn Alphabet Game
Using a frozen 12 or 16 ounce juice container, place construction paper around it.  Tape the seam closed with clear plastic tape and the top with clear mailing tape.  You will need to have one for each container.  Make 26 acorns.  Print one page and then cut out 26 onto brown construction paper.  Write the lower case alphabet on one side and the upper case alphabet on the other side.  Laminate or place clear contact paper on them.  Have the child hunt for acorns scattered over the floor, put them in order, and say the alphabet.

Acorn Alphabet File Folder Game or Table Game
You can make separate acorns too.  Use 52 pattern acorns.  Write the lower case alphabet on 26 of them and then the uppercase alphabet on 26 more.  Follow the above directions.  Place one set in a file folder (or on a table or the floor).  Match the correct letter with other matching letter.

Leaf Links
Information
Autumn Leaf Scrapbook Leaf Identification in Missouri
Autumn Leaves - Why do leaves change color in Fall? @ Science Made Simple Including word scrambles.
Why Leaves Change Color?

Activities
Make leaf rubbings.

Leaf Printables and Activity Sheets
D-lite Collections @ Bry-Back Manor Different leaf activity sheets.  

One includes: How Many Leaves (counting and writing numbers).

Squirrel Theme
AFUNK: Squirrel Coloring Book
Bry-Back Manor: Help the Squirrels - Match the squirrels with the correct number of nuts (acorns)
KidsRCrafty: Squirrel Dot-to-dot (a-m)

Autumn and Fall Links
Autumn Celebration at The Holiday Zone
Arts and Crafts, Coloring Pages, Games, Language Activities, Poetry, Songs and Action Rhymes, and Recommended Books and Links
Bry-Back Manor: Fall Tic Tac Toe Game Acorns and Leaves.
CrayolaActivityBook: Nature Walk, Fall Coloring Pages
Free Printable Math Worksheets: Autumn Themed @ KidZone Grades 1-5 (These can be used for other grades too; depending on the child.)