March winds comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb!
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Lions and Lambs: a Windy March Unit Study
You remember the old weather saying March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb!. The winds of March encourage an exploration of contrasts. From fierce gales to gentle breezes, pelting rains to soft mist. March is the time of transition from winter to spring.
Lions and lambs also invite comparison. Lions are called the king of beasts, the predators at the top of the food chain. Lambs blindly follow the herd and can easily become the lion's prey.
Using this theme of contrast lions and lambs will unite this Unit Study as we learn to read, write, understand numbers, sing, play and explore Lions and Lambs.
Photo Credit: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
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Lion and Lamb Language Arts
Lion and Lamb Poems
The Senegal Lion and Lioness
Specht, Friedrich
Available at AllPosters.com
Thank you Joyce for permission to reprint this poem about the windy March weather.
You might copy and laminate pictures of the animals and other things found in this poem and ask the children to attach them to the words that they represent. Once most of the children are able to find the words, this can be used as an independent learning center where children match pictures of words with the words in the poem. Write the words on the back of the pictures for self checking. Be sure to laminate
the picture cards for durability.- March - Lion and Lamb (poem) by Joyce P. Hale
- MARCH has tumbled on the scene,
exits mild, but enters mean...
Winter waves a fierce goodbye,
while robins promise Spring is nigh.
Daffodils are peeking through...
forsythia is budding, too.
Clouds are racing, sun is cool,
in like a lion is the rule!
Birds all seem to know it's time
to answer Mother Nature's sign;
they listen to an innate command,
and there goes March, out like a lamb.
© Joyce P. Hale
- Mrs. Jones - Raps, Chants and Songs about The Months
- Songs, rhymes, and raps about the months of the year and links to other sites about the months. Includes several good poems about the lions and lambs of March.
Baby Lamb's First Drink
Baby Lambs born in March
Photo Credit: Nursing Lamb by Sarah Elizabeth Simpson
Used under creative commons
Here is a wonderful little book for learning how to read with a story that is simple, beautiful pictures and only a few words per page.t is about the day that a lamb is born on a beautiful day in the spring. The lamb stays close to its mother and nurses, taking her first drink of milk. Don't miss itl
Stories for a Windy Day in March
Days of Lions and Lambs
March Wind
Available at Allposters
March is known for its changing winds. Here are some picture books about the wind that my children have loved. After reading these stories we look again at the drawings and paintings to see what techniques the illustrators have used to depict the wind. During independent center activities some children may decide to try illustrating the wind.
Lion and Lamb Math
Lions in the Sheep Pasture
Math Workjobs
Playmobil Lions
Mathmat Pastures
A green placemat or a piece of green felt glued onto coverstock works well as a pasture.
Lions and Lambs
Lima Beans make wonderful lions and lambs. The Lima Beans are spray painted yellow on one side and left to dry. Features can be added with black permanent marker once the paint has dried. Hairspray works as a fixative.
The ones on the yellow side are lions and the ones on the white side are the lambs.
Shake the lions and lambs. Make addition problems like 2 lions plus 3 lambs equals 5 animals.
Variation: Make black and white sheep instead of lions.
Skip Counting Lions and Lambs
March Math
Paw of a Lion Resting in Brush, Maasai Mara, Kenya
Restuccia III
Available at AllPosters.com
Skip count the pads on a lion's paws by 5's or the cloven hoofs of lambs by 2's.
L is for Lamb
Available at Allposters
Check out more Skip Counting ideas:
Lion and Lamb Social Studies
Friendship: Accepting Differences
How can the lions and lambs learn to play and work together?
Navajo Baby and Lamb
Available at AllPosters.com
March is a wonderful time to explore the theme of friendship, getting to know new people in the neighborhood, and how to make friends. Explore the differences and similarities in people you know. Think of people you like to work with in different situations. Brainstorm ways of asking others to work with you in different situations. When you first meet a person do you act like a lion or a lamb? How does that effect the way the other person feels about you?
You might start this conversation during Morning Meeting. How could you extend this theme throughout the month of March?
Weather Around the World
Geography in the Month of March
Full-Length Portrait in Studio of a Young Japanese Girl in a Traditional Costume Worn on Windy Days
Available at AllPosters.com
How do the winds of the Lion and the Lamb effect other places in the world?
Lion and Lamb Science
Comparing Lions and Lambs
The Predator and the Prey
Peace On Earth
Nancy Glazier
Available from Allpsosters
When you compare a lions teeth with that of the sheep or the claws of the lion compared to the hoofs of the sheep, how has each species adapted to it's role as a predator or prey?
Ask one of the children to bring in a pet cat. Gently examine the body of a feline. Look at it's claws, teeth, and position of it's eyes. Watch the way it moves around the room.
Then go to a farm or petting zoo and examine a sheep.
Make notes on the similarities and differences.
The Lion brings the Sharp Biting Wind
The Lamb brings the Gentle Breezes
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
March comes in with a roar.
He rattles your windows
and scratches at your door.
The lion blows into the house with muddy footprints and a swirling snowflakes. Loud and wild and lion-like is the wind that howls through the house. Then with a sneeze the lion settles down to sleep while the gentle breezes of the lamb bring springtime glowers, sunshine and baby animals. A beautiful use of imagination as the lion enters the house and then is followed by a lion each of whom represent the winds of March.
Go outside and feel the wind on your cheeks. Who is sending the wind today? Is it the lion or the lamb? Ask the children to roar or bleat depending on the kind of wind they feel. Add a pictograph to your weather chart to represent the way the wind feels each day in March.
Month of Changing Winds
Photo Credit:
Walking in the Wind
on clker, Public Domain
In North America we see these changing winds in March but in Australia they are felt in August. Which month do you notice the most changing winds where you live?
Windy Words
Words to describe the Wind
What words could you use to describe the wind? Some days are breezy. The gentle zephyr tickles your eyelashes and warms your cheeks. Other days the gales blow icy crystals that seem to cut like a knife. We are making a list of adjectives to describe the wind. Can you think of any that we have missed?
Print wind words on index cards and laminate
How could you use these words in a dance? How about painting these words? What else could you do with wind words?
Please add more wind words as you encounter them in your studies of the Lion and Lamb winds of March:
Lion and Lamb Art
Lion and Lamb Craft Projects
Lion and Lamb Craft Projects
Arts and Crafts for the Month of March
Photo Credit: Lion and lamb note holder kit
on Cuteable
Art projects and crafts for decorating your classroom can become learning experiences for your children. Here are a few delightful projects to brighten your classroom with artwork emphasizing this month's theme: March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb!
- Lion and Lamb Paper Bag Craft Project
- Tips: The lamb head used for this puppet also works to make a journal or book for students' artwork or writing.
Instructions:
1. Cut White lamb's head.
2. Line head in Black and color nose Black.
3. Glue to bottom of paper bag.
4. Color eyes with Black marker. Dot eyes with White paint.
5. Chalk ears and cheeks. - Cuteable Craft Finds
- This lion and lamb note holder kit would make a great present for a crafty kid - get it from And Then.
- Legend of the Lion & Lamb | March Bulletin Board | Bulletin Board Ideas
- Legend has it that if, on the first of March, the weather comes in like a lion (fierce and strong), it will go out like a lamb (mild). The opposite is also
- Kids Create: Tutorial: In like a Lion or a Lamb? Art Work.
- Handprint paintings to make lions and lambs. Use theses to make a bulletin board quilt.
Lion Windsocks
March Windsocks
Photo Credit: Lion Windsock Craft
on Flickr, Creative Commons
How to make Japanese Windsocks
Use a recycled shipping envelope to make a version of koinobori, the carp-shaped wind socks families in Japan fly for Children's Day on May 5.1 point
Rabbit Windsock
Fun children's crafts, including printable craft templates, for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school kids.1 point
How to Make a Windsock for Children: 12 steps
wikiHow article about How to Make a Windsock for Children.1 point
Kites Teach us About the Wind
Science of Windsocks1 point
The Changing Winds of March
Windy Day in March March can have wonderful kite flying weather. Make a kite in February
and plan to fly it each day in March. Mark the days on the calendar to
indicate which days were actually good for kite...1 point
Lion and Lamb Music
Blow to Make Music
Wind Instruments
Hohner 9544 Luxury Maple 2-Piece Soprano Recorder
Wind Instruments use the wind to make music so March would be a wonderful time to learn about wind instruments. Make a list of all the instruments you can that are blown into in order to make sound. Go to the Internet and find music played on these instruments and listen to their sounds. Bring in as many different kinds of wind instruments as possible for the children to try playing. Go to a concert. Start learning to play an instrument. Recorder is a wind instrument that is often used to introduce children to playing musical instruments. If possible, learn on a wooden instrument rather than a plastic one the sound of a wooden recorder can be amazing.
Wind Instruments
Wind Instruments World Musical Instruments Wind instruments are technically known as aerophones. Wind instruments produce sound when the column of air inside them is set into vibration by either a reed or the player's lips. Their tuning is controlled by the length of their pipe. Wind instruments fro...1 point
The bore of a wind instrument
The bore of a wind instrument is its interior chamber that defines a flow path through ... The conical bore has a timbre composed of odd and even harmonics, ...1 point
Songs of Lions and Lambs
Mary had a Little Lamb
Available at AllPosters.com
If Mary had a little lamb, I wonder if she also had a little lion? And if she had a little lion, would she take it to school too? How about writing more verses to the old familiar song. How would the teacher react to Mary bringing a little lion to school?
Sounds of Lions, Lambs and Wind
Listen to Audio Clips of Lions and Lambs
At the listening center, children can listen to the various sounds that lions and lambs make. What can you tell from these sounds? Can you hear the difference between when they are contented and when they are stressed?
Then listen to the sounds of wind and weather. Which ones sound like lions and which ones sound like lambs?
Lion Sounds
Links to Lion Audio Clips and Lion Sounds at JungleWalk.com. Listen to the roar of the lions. Do these roars sound like the roar of the wind on a blustery March day?1 point
Sheep Sounds
Links to Sheep Audio Clips and Sheep Sounds at JungleWalk.com. Listen to the sounds made by sheep and compare them to the sound of the wind. Does the wind would like sheep or lambs?1 point
Download Free Bad Weather Sound Effects - Stormy Raining Windy Thunder Lightening Storms
Sound effects for driving in rainy, stormy & windy weather. Listen to the sounds of thunder with stormy winds and lightning. Compare these sounds with the wind outside your door on a day in March.1 point
Lion or Lamb?
Lion or Lamb Halloween Costume
Photo Credit: Lil Characters Unisex-baby Infant Lion Costume, Brown, 12-18 Months
Photo Credit: Lamb Infant/Toddler Costume Infant (6-12M)
Lion and Lamb Health and Fitness
Lions and Lambs stay Physically Fit
Tag games with Lions and Lambs
Sheep Lambs and a Couple of Crows
Buy at AllPosters.com
Run like the winds of March!
Gather a group of children. One child is picked to be the first lion. All the others are sheep. As the lion tags a sheep it becomes a lion. The game ends when all the sheep have become lions.
- Lion and Lamb Tag
- Gather everyone into a circle. Pass out two blindfolds. One player is the lion and the other player is the Lamb. Whenever the lion roars the lamb must baah. When the lion catches the lamb the game stops and the lion picks another lamb. The former lamb then becomes the lion.
“March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb!”
Lions and Lambs
Lion or Lamb Lapbook Resources
Lion or Lamb Lapbooks
Recording what you have learned from the lions and lambs of March
Mammals - Lapbook Lessons
Suggestions for creating a lion lapbook0 points
Lions | Home School Moms World
List of basic facts about lions with a video.0 points
Farm Themed Papers Lapbook Mini Books
Includes sheep0 points
Free Weather Lapbook - Homeschool Helper
Homeschool Helper's Free Weather Lapbook.0 points
Free Weather Words Lapbook
Weather Words Lapbook created by Ami based on the more...0 points
Look who's Twittering about Lions and Lambs!
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- leoangelo00
- Auuuummmm RT @izarism: Rise and rise again until lamb become lion #KASKUSdotcom
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- izarism
- Rise and rise again until lamb become lion #KASKUSdotcom
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- KimiThatcher
- Went to a zoo earlier. Saw a lion AND a lamb #Godismighty
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- doobiidooo
- And the Lion fell inlove with a Lamb ♥ #Twilight
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- NiaRadioNetwork
- Crystal Lewis - The Lion And The Lamb : #NowPlaying On http://t.co/SWjT6KkJ -
More Unit Studies
Hands-on Learning
Roar about Lions
Bleat about Lambs
Tell us all about the lions and lambs you have discovered in the winds of March...
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mjtaylor
Mar 14, 2012 @ 11:37 pm | delete
- So creative; and I really loved the toad eggs!
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anando
Mar 11, 2012 @ 4:40 am | delete
- Wow interesting lines
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RinchenChodron
Feb 28, 2012 @ 9:52 pm | delete
- Wow, very cleaverly done. I came from Pinterest too.
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poutine
Feb 25, 2012 @ 3:54 pm | delete
- Such a cute lens. Came from Pinterest.
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ohcaroline
Feb 15, 2012 @ 4:49 pm | delete
- It wouldn't be springtime without the winds. We have our share in my neck of the woods.
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entertainmenteveryday
Feb 15, 2012 @ 1:11 pm | delete
- I love this saying and spirit of March. Great lens!
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Frischy
Feb 10, 2012 @ 6:16 pm | delete
- In second grade I started a new school in February. One of my earliest memories of this school is a bulletin board on the staircase that said, "In like a lion, out like a lamb." It must have made quite an impression, because I have few memories of this school at all. I only attended from mid-February until May. Why this phrase stuck with me all these years, I have no idea. As always, your lens is wonderful!
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greenspirit
Jan 31, 2012 @ 12:23 pm | delete
- what a clever and brilliant lens. Thanks for a lovely read.
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lasertek
Apr 3, 2011 @ 9:03 pm | delete
- Wonderful lens! I like the topic and the information you have shared.
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Philippians468
Mar 29, 2011 @ 9:06 am | delete
- i love the cuddly lamb! SIMPLY ADORABLE! cheers
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rbkuncoro
Mar 21, 2011 @ 11:56 pm | delete
- LOVELY great lens :)
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Amitabh1702
Mar 13, 2011 @ 10:16 pm | delete
- Absolutely fantastic lens. Great work.
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poutine
Mar 7, 2011 @ 6:35 am | delete
- Such a lovely lens.
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bejeezers Feb 8, 2011 @ 3:25 pm | delete
- A lovely lens. Very informative.
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skiesgreen
Dec 27, 2010 @ 9:39 pm | delete
- Very nice lens. In Aus its August when these winds come and go. Hope the weather is kind to you at the moment. Top marks.
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