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like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants."

Deuteronomy 32:2

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Saturday, August 6

Kindergarten, Science, Week 27

This week we turned our attention to ponds.

Here are the books we read:
  • Life in a Pond by Fowler
    • Pictures with just a few sentences on each page
  • Pond Life by Stewart and Bergin
    • Great realistic drawings; introduces frogs, three-spined sticklebacks, newts, ducks; discusses seasons, mating, and life cycles
  • Would You Rather Be a Polliwog? by Worth (a Cat in the Hat book)
    • Comical drawings; touches on insects, frogs, ducks, turtles, fish, metamorphosis
  • The True Book of Animals of Small Pond by Erickson
    • Realistic drawings on each page; true story; follows the beaver, raccoon, mink, otter, and muskrat from winter through autumn
  • From Tadpole to Frog by Pfeffer
    • Good drawings; life cycle of a bullfrog, which takes 2 years to change from tadpole to frog
  • Box Turtle at Long Pond by George
    • Realistic drawings; a day in the life of a box turtle
  • Pond by Morrison
    • Realistic drawings; a pond, from spring to winter; just a few sentences on each page, but it gives additional information about pond plants and animals at the bottom of the page that older children would be interested in
  • Pond Life by Greenaway
    • Pictures with lots of information; we just looked at the pictures in this book
Other suggested books:
  • The Beaver Pond by Tresselt
    • Good drawings; follows the life cycle of a beaver pond
  • One Small Square Pond by Silver
    • If you have a natural pond that you can visit, it gives lots of information and activities to do throughout a year
  • The Living Pond by Hester
    • Great photographs and information
  • Life in Ponds and Streams by Amos
    • Great photographs with a medium about of text

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