Learning Treasures for Younger Students

This daily issue of the Learning Treasures newsletter is geared toward younger students - kids up through 2nd grade. I have decided to do it this way to make it easier for subscribers. Those of you with older kids can simply choose to delete this issue. There will be a daily newsletter with things geared towards older kids and one with just for fun links for all ages including moms & dads.

Today's Coloring Sheet - Turkey
www.learningtreasures.com/turkey_paper.htm

Today's History - Christopher Columbus
www.learningtreasures.com/christopher_columbus.htm

Daily Science Fun - Make a Volcano
www.kidskreate.com/article_1059.html

Daily Math Sheet - Couunt by 2's Laughing Acorns
www.learningtreasures.com/acorn_math.htm

Daily Writing Paper or Stationary - Scarecrow Stationary
www.learningtreasures.com/scarecrow_stationary.htm

Daily Printable - Gingham Pumpkin Bingo
www.learningtreasures.com/gingham_pumpkin_bingo.htm

Today's Cooking with Kids - Candy Corn Cookies
www.childrensrecipes.com/candy_corn_cookies.htm

NOTE: A few of you have asked if you can submit ideas or activities on a less than daily basis. The answer is YES!!! If several of us are sharing things I can provide a daily activity and with a lot less work on any one person. So please do submit your ideas, activities, science projects - whatever!

Enjoy! Belinda

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copyright 2005 Belinda J. Mooney

Learning Treasures for Younger Students

Today's Coloring Sheet - Sesame Street Letter A
http://www.learningtreasures.com/letter_a_color.htm

Today's History -Afghanistan Map & Worksheet
http://www.learningtreasures.com/afghanistan_worksheet.htm

Daily Science Fun - Animals Need Food
http://www.learningtreasures.com/animals_need_food.htm

Daily Math Sheet - Gingham Pumpkin Number Flashcards

Daily Writing Paper or Stationary - Autumn Snowman Stationary & Story Prompts
http://www.learningtreasures.com/autumn_snowman_stationary.htm

Daily Printable - Gingham Pumpkin ABC Cards
http://www.learningtreasures.com/gingham_pumpkin_ABC.htm

If you want to share something please email me  at belinda@belindamooney.com

Scampering Squirrels Lapbook Fun
Make miniature books, tags, library pockets and more
www.learningtreasures.com

Enjoy! Belinda

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Learning Treasures for Older Students

Today's Cooking with Kids - Candy Corn Cookies
www.childrensrecipes.com/candy_corn_cookies.htm

Today's History - Christopher Columbus
www.learningtreasures.com/christopher_columbus.htm

Daily Science Fun - Make a Volcano
www.kidskreate.com/article_1059.html

Daily Coloring Sheet - I will be adding these ASAP

Daily Math Sheet - I will be getting some of these done this week

Daily Writing Paper or Stationary - Scarecrow Stationary
www.learningtreasures.com/scarecrow_stationary.htm

Daily Puzzle - Starting soon!

Today's Fun Printable - this may be to young for 6th and up but my 3rd grader loved them.
Gingham Pumpkin Bingo - www.learningtreasures.com/gingham_pumpkin_bingo.htm

NOTE: A few of you have asked if you can submit ideas or activities on a less than daily basis. The answer is YES!!! If several of us are sharing things I can provide a daily activity and with a lot less work on any one person. So please do submit your ideas, activities, science projects - whatever!

If you want to share something please email me  at belinda@belindamooney.com

Enjoy!

Belinda

Scampering Squirrels Resource pack
http://www.learningtreasures.com/squirrels_resource_pack.htm

Scampering Squirrels Lapbook Pack
http://www.learningtreasures.com/squirrels_lapbook_pack.htm

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copyright 2008 Belinda J. Mooney

Today's science blog is a mini unit on the army ant. We have been doing our Animals A-Z notebooks and it is so much fun to go through the alphabet with the animals! Click here for printable divider pages for your notebook

Another GREAT product we had fun with when doing the ants was this space age ant farm. It is so cool. The ants dig right down through this blue gel stuff and you can watch them from the any side. You can gather your own ants or send away for some with the coupon that comes with it. Our family gave this product 4 stars!

Army Ant

Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Eciton

These tiny creatures can wipe out anything in their path. Army ants are HUNTERS and they roam around from place to place looking for food.

What they look like: Army ants grow to be about 1 inch. They can be dark brown or black. They have very large and strong pincerlike jaws. The males have wings.

What they eat: Anything they can subdue in their path. They eat other insect, snakes and small animals such as baby birds. The whole colony will overtake the smaller animal and eat it. The ants send out special scouts to look for food. When they find it the go and tell the others. They leave a special smell that the others can follow.

Where they live: Army ants like warm tropical temperatures. They can be found in the lowland forests of South and Central American and the some of the southern points of North American. India and Malaysia has a similar species.

How they breed: They lay eggs. They can lay up to 120,000 a one time. The LARVAL STAGE takes 23 – 33 days and the PUPATION STAGE 10-15 days.

Special Characteristics: Army Ants live in huge colonies. There are worker ants (most of the ants are workers), soldiers and a queen. The ants travel in stages. When they are migrating they go on the march and stop to rest at night. One neat trick the ants do is to make a nest with their bodies so the queen and the babies can rest. When they are not marching they are in the STATIONARY phase. This is when they make a nest and the queen lays her eggs.

COOL FACTS

Army ants can march 65 feet in an hour. The queen only mates once in her life. Soldier ants march on the side and protect the other ants. Activities Add the Army Ant to your animal notebook. It will go under ARTHROPODS – INSECTS. You can make another divider if you like for the order HYMENOPTERA. Get a blank copy of a world map. Mark where the army ants live. Get an ant farm and watch how other ants live. The army ants feed and take care of their queen the same way. Draw an ant and label the body parts. This chart will help you. Fun worksheets: Ant Math for Younger Students Ant Maze Ant Word Search Ant Coloring Sheet Discover the Ant Worksheet More Resources: Discovery Channel Video – Ants grades 3 - 5 Ant Zone with Poster - (4744000) Giant Ant Farm - (6017400) Book Plus Science Model, Lifecycle of an Ant - (4733207) Xtreme Ant Farm - (3081648)

A simple to make kid's crafts that smells YUMMY! Applesauce and cinnamon mix together to make a great dough for making ornaments for the Christmas tree.

http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/apple_cinnamon_dough_recipe

These smell so good on the Christmas tree.

Belinda

I have made 41 of them and I put 6 up today. I will try and add 5 - 6 daily until they are all up. On some of them the parts have letters or numbers beside them. I do not have the answer key to these. I used clipart I found on the web so there was no answer keys.

I will try and make some puzzles this weekend as well.

Here is the link. These first 6 are fairly simple. There will be more detailed ones later.

http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/blog.cfm/anatomy_printables

Belinda