Acorns for the Squirrels
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Crafty Squirrels are Counting Acorns
Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving. Make place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations.
What will the squirrels be thankful for and will they remember their manners at the Thanksgiving table? The squirrels are making nut bread and counting acorns to prepare for the feast.
Scurry on over and learn about squirrels and acorns...
What will the squirrels be thankful for and will they remember their manners at the Thanksgiving table? The squirrels are making nut bread and counting acorns to prepare for the feast.
Scurry on over and learn about squirrels and acorns...
Photo Credit: Squirrel with Acorn.
Available at Allposters
Squirrels and Acorns Table of Contents
Photo Credit: Squirrel Meeting
Available on Zazzle
The Squirrel's Thanksgiving
Acorns and Squirrels at Thankgiving Time
In Steven Kroll's delightful tale, the squirrel family celebrates Thanksgiving with their cousins.Buddy and Brenda Squirrel help their Mother prepare for the Thanksgiving Feast. They make decorations and count acorns. I wonder if they are a homeschooling family?
This loving family also learns to be thankful for each other and to appreciate having good manners.
As an extension of this book we will also be learning about Squirrels and Acorns. It is important for children to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction so this unit study will also include facts about squirrels and explore such questions as Where do squirrels live? What do squirrels eat? What trees do squirrels prefer? Where do acorns come from? Can humans eat acorns? Come learn more about squirrels and the acorns they love to eat:
- The Squirrel's Thanksgiving
- Taking our modern lifestyles to heart, MobiStories was created to instill the love of reading in today's children.
A Squirrel Family Feast
Food for the Squirrels
Munching Squirrels Postcard by daphne1024
See other Squirrel Postcards
The cousins are coming and the squirrel family is cooking up a storm. What kinds of foods do you think Brenda and Buddy Squirrel would like to help their mother make in preparation for Thanksgiving Dinner? What kinds of foods do wild squirrels eat? If we pretend to be squirrels, which kinds of foods might we want to eat?
Tales of Squirrels and Acorns
Squirrel and Acorn Story
The Calico Critters Squirrel Family make delightful props for a puppet show reenacting the tale of The Squirrel's Thanksgiving!
From Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Squirrel Nutkin children will love reading these fictional tales of Squirrels collecting acorns and preparing for winter.
The Squirrel children in the Squirrel's Thanksgiving make decorations and count acorns. Sara Squirrel is trying to find lost acorns.
After reading all these stories help the children write their own stories about squirrels.
Calico Critters Furbanks Squirrel Family
From Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Squirrel Nutkin children will love reading these fictional tales of Squirrels collecting acorns and preparing for winter.
The Squirrel children in the Squirrel's Thanksgiving make decorations and count acorns. Sara Squirrel is trying to find lost acorns.
After reading all these stories help the children write their own stories about squirrels.
Squirrel Tales from the Green Forest
Happy Jack Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Flying Squirrels
Available at AllPosters.com
Happy Jack Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel are tales by Thornton Burgess the well known Naturalist that presents facts and observations about squirrels with just enough fiction to keep children's imaginations alive and begging for more.
Most children will be able to read these easy Chapter Books by the end of First Grade but we have found that reading these books together promotes discussion and a better understanding of squirrels and the squirrel's habitat.
Stuffed Squirrels and Acorns
A Plush Squirrel and Acorn for Snuggling
Plush Black Squirrel with Acorn 9"
Available on Amazon
Wikipedia tells us that the Black squirrel is a melanistic subgroup of the eastern grey squirrel. They are common in Midwestern North America and, in some places, outnumber the grey squirrels by a ratio of about ten to one.
Read about squirrels and acorns as you snuggle up with this cute little plush squirrel.
Facts about Squirrels
Do Squirrels eat acorns?
Photo Credit: Toddler Looking Through the Window Available on AllPosters
An Eastern Gray Squirrel Eats a WalnutJohns, Chris Available on AllPosters
Squirrels are rodents. The Squirrel Family includes not only squirrels but also chipmunks, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, woodchucks, and marmots.
Set up a couple of chairs, a digital camera, paper and pencils at a table near the window. Children observe the squirrels, record their activities and take pictures of the squirrels.
During Writing Workshop the children can use these pictures and observations to write stories or factual accounts of the squirrel's activities.
Squirrel Unit Studies
Squirrels use acorns for learning.
Photo Credit: From the 1903 THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN BY BEATRIX POTTER
on Zorger, Public Domain
Child learn like little squirrels collecting acorns of knowledge with hands-on learning activities.
- Acorns
- Take the children on a nature walk and have them collect acorns. Games, songs, math and science related to squirrels and acorns.
- How to Play Acorn and Squirrel.
- The Acorn and Squirrel game demonstrates how important animals and plants are to each other. You can teach a fairly large group of young children how trees, animals and the earth all depend on each ot...
- Squirrel Crafts and Activities
- Lots of Squirrel activities for teaching young children.
- Squirrels and their Habits
- Books Used:
Earl the Squirrel by Don Freeman
Miss Suzy by Miriam YoungTimmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter
Fun With Nature by Boring, Burns, and Dendy
The Acorn People
Handicapped children are given the opportunity to go to a boyscout camp. The narrator is a councilor with no prior experience who learns not only to love those children but learns to see them as children, not as objects to be pitied.
In the story, the children start making acorn necklaces that serve as a way to show friendship and comradry about how to interact with their handicapped neighbors by having the Acorn People read aloud to them. Maybe Father Squirrel will read it to them after Thanksgiving Dinner.
In the story, the children start making acorn necklaces that serve as a way to show friendship and comradry about how to interact with their handicapped neighbors by having the Acorn People read aloud to them. Maybe Father Squirrel will read it to them after Thanksgiving Dinner.
Stringing Acorns
Making Acorn People
Photo Credit: Acorn People
on Flickr, Creative Commons
You can make acorn necklaces by drilling holes in acorns and stringing them on stiff string. If you dip the end of the string in wax it keeps the string from unraveling.
To make this activity into a literacy center, the acorns could have letters painted on them and the children could string their spelling, vocabulary or high frequency words.
- A Children's Workshop for Making Toys
- As the child develops more hand control, she can begin to make chains and necklaces by stringing the nuts such as acorns on a cord.
- Use of Native Craft Materials
- A large needle was pressed through the acorns and a double strand of hea\y cotton thread was used for stringing them. They may be strung with or without the ...
Acorn Letters
A Squirrel's favorite way to learn letters.
Photo Credit: Letter Acorns
Available from Kate and Company
Matching upper and lower case letters or use to introduce the sounds of letters. Put the acorns in ABC order or match them to objects that begin with those letters that have been glued to squirrels.
- Letter Acorns and other Alphabet Flannel Board Activities
- Fun Educational Activities For The Classroom from Katie & Co. including the acorn letter activity above.
The Squirrel Children learn to write
Squirrel Shaped Chalkboard
Photo Credit: Squirrel
on The Wood Works of Cedar Springs
Used by permission
1. Cut out an outline of a squirrel and repaint it with black chalkboard paint or buy one from Wood Works of Cedar Springs.
2. Create a hollow tree or tree stump using an oatmeal box and paper mache. This will be used to store the Squirrel and leaf cards.
3. Write words related to the Squirrel and Acorn unit on Die Cut Oak Leaves
.4. Children pull out a leaf and write the word on the Squirrel Chalkboard.
Variation: One child pulls out the Oak Leaf Word and reads it to the other child who writes the word without looking and then they check to see that it is spelled correctly.
Possible words:
squirrel
acorn
oak
tree
autumn
fall
Children can practice handwriting or spelling words on the Squirrel Cutout.
Thank you Bob Chesley from The Wood Works of Cedar Springs for allowing me to use the above photo of the Squirrel Plywood Cutout.
- The wood works of cedar springs, inc.
- Squirrel Plywood Cutouts
Squirrel Words
Squirrel and Acorn Literacy Activities
Photo Credit: Squirrel color word match
on Kelly's Kindergarten October Centers
Match the color word on each acorn with the color painted on the clothespins.
You could make this center self checking by putting color strips on the back of the folder to match the colors on the clothespins.
- Kelly's Web Page
- Squirrel color word match
- Squirrel Acorn Alphabet Match
- Match the upper and lower case letters.
Squirrel and Acorn Cards
Use clipart to create Squirrel and Acorn Cards
Photo Credit: Squirrel
From WPClipart
These would make wonderful cards for matching to the words they represent and then playing Concentration or Go Fish with them.
The more that children interact with words the easier it is for them to remember the words.
Squirrels eat not only acorns but also the nuts or seeds inside of pine cones. Pine cones are where pinenuts come from that taste so delicious in Italian cooking.
- FIELD STUDIES pinecones and acorns
- Four mini prints of pines cones and acorns.
- Tree Clipart
- Tree Clipart. Copyright-free images of Trees.
Squirrel Writings
Keep a diary of your squirrel activities...
Write every day in all subject areas. Write about the observations of squirrels outside the window. Write about the acorns you sort for math workjobs and write about the imaginary squirrels that go on adventures in the squirrel's doll house.
Brown Squirrel Song
- Brown Squirrel
- Brown squirrel brown squirrel
Shake your bushy tail
Brown squirrel brown squirrel
Shake your bushy tail
Crinkle up your little nose
Stick a nut between your toes
Brown squirrel brown squirrel
Shake your bushy tail
Photo Credit: North American Red Squirrel
From Wikipedia
Little by Little, the Acorn Said
LITTLE BY LITTLE.
"Little by little," the acorn said,
As it slowly sank in its mossy bed,
"I am improving every day,
Hidden deep in the earth away."
Little by little each day it grew;
Little by little it sipped the dew;
Downward it sent out a threadlike root;
Up in the air sprung a tiny shoot,
Day after day, and year after year,
Little by little the leaves appear;
And the slender branches spread far and wide,
Till the mighty oak is the forest's pride.
"Little by little," said the thoughtful boy,
"Moment by moment, I'll well employ,
Learning a little every day,
And not misspending my time in play;
Whatever I do I will do it well.
Little by little, I'll learn to know
The treasured wisdom of long ago;
And one of these days, perhaps, will see
That the world will be the better for me."
"Little by little," the acorn said,As it slowly sank in its mossy bed,
"I am improving every day,
Hidden deep in the earth away."
Little by little each day it grew;
Little by little it sipped the dew;
Downward it sent out a threadlike root;
Up in the air sprung a tiny shoot,
Day after day, and year after year,
Little by little the leaves appear;
And the slender branches spread far and wide,
Till the mighty oak is the forest's pride.
Photo Credit: Acorn Sprout
From Clkr, Public Domain
"Little by little," said the thoughtful boy,
"Moment by moment, I'll well employ,
Learning a little every day,
And not misspending my time in play;
Whatever I do I will do it well.
Little by little, I'll learn to know
The treasured wisdom of long ago;
And one of these days, perhaps, will see
That the world will be the better for me."
- A poem "Little by Little,the acorn said as it sank it roots in its bed? -
- Where can I find a copy of this poem
Poetry of Squirrels and Acorns
Poetry for Science and Social Studies
The Wonderful Oak Tree
Rignall, John
Available from Allposters
Poetry is a wonderful way to lead young children into topics of science and social studies.
To extend this poem:
1. Go for a walk in the woods and observe an oak tree. Compare it with other trees in the forest. Bring home a few leaves and acorns to put on the science table for observation.
2. Dry and press some oak leaves and other leaves. Attach them to index cards and play Go Fish or Concentration. Pictures of the full grown trees, bark and seeds could also be added.
3. Go to a lumberyard, sawmill, or furniture factory and learn about the different types of wood. Can you tell which kind of tree each board comes from? How can you tell?
4. Make a large Oak Tree on the bulletin board. Have children research items that are made from oak and hang labeled pictures of them from the branches.
- Simple Truths in Verse for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an Early Age
The Oak
by Mary Elliott
Observe, dear George, this nut is small;
     The Acorn is its name;
Would you suppose yon tree so tall
     From such a trifle came?
The Acorn, buried in the earth,
     When many years are past
Becomes the oak of matchless worth,
     Whose strength will ages last.
In Summer, pleasant is its shade,
     But greater far its use;
The wood which forms our ships for trade
     Its body can produce.
And many other things beside,
     I cannot now explain;
For where its merits have been tried,
     They were not tried in vain.
Photo Credit: Oak
on WPClipart, Public Domain- Poem: The Squirrel
- The Squirrel
Anonymous
Whisky, frisky,
Hippity hop;
Up he goes
To the tree top!
Whirly, twirly,
Round and round,
Down he scampers
To the ground.
Furly, curly
What a tail!
Tall as a feather
Broad as a sail!
Where's his supper?
In the shell,
Snappity, crackity,
Out it fell.
Grocery List
sweet potatoes
marshmallows
cranberries
walnuts
MobiStories
Acorn and Squirrel Math Calendar
To turn your bulletin board into an interactive learning center, write math problems on the leaves and answers on the acorns. Cover the bulletin board with felt and the backs of the leaves and acorns with Velcro.
The children become little squirrels scurrying through the leaves and acorns to find matches which they put up on the bulletin board. After they have been checked for accuracy they can be pulled off and stored in a basket for the next group of children.or left scattered or the next squirrels to sort.
Acorn Math
Count, sort and add the acorns.
Photo Credit: Counting Acorns
on Flickr, Creative Commons
Take A Walk in the Woods and collect lots of acorns.
1. Spread the acorns out on the table and start to look at them carefully. Are they all the same?
2. As you start to notice differences, begin sorting them into groups. Be sure to label your piles.
3. Then count to see how many you have in each pile. Make a graph to show the number of acorns in each category.
4. Write about your discoveries in your math journal.
Inexpensive objects that can be used as math manipulatives include acorns, pine needles, leaves and so on.
- Squirrel and Acorn Match
- Match the squirrel with a number to that number of acorns.
- Kelly's Web Page
- Acorn counting--Students fill cups with the correct number of acorns.
Squirrels and Acorns for the Doll House
Squirrel Salt and Pepper Shakers
Salt and pepper shakers in the shapes of squirrels and acorns are a fun addition to the dollhouse. We sometimes use them as game pieces or math manipulatives.
Go Nuts and Count the Acorns
Take your cheeky chances on this quick playing dice game of nut gathering nuttiness. Pile up points by rolling the dice and adding up acorns, while avoiding any cars along the way. If you roll all squirrels, scurry to score as many nuts as you can before your opponents' dogs chase you away! The player with the most points wins. For 2-4 players, ages 8 and up.
To make this game even more hands-on and to help tactile learners understand the concepts of adding higher numbers we use abacuses for keeping track of the score.
Measuring Acorns and Squirrels
Photo Credit: Measuring an Acorn from Daphne Palomar
Photo Credit: Squirrel Tracks on Cement Sidewalk by Aydn Orstan from Snail's Tales - Used by permission
Cuisenaire Rods can be used to measure acorns and plush squirrels.
We have several plush squirrels of different sizes to measure.
Squirrel Tracks can also be measured.
Making Needle Felted Acorns and Squirrels
Needle felted acorns make wonder natural fiber math manipulatives. Use them for counting, sorting, adding and subtracting.
More Math Manipulatives
Squirrels, Acorns and Counting Leaves
Acorns make wonderful math manipulatives. You can use them to show one to one correspondence with nuts and caps, count them, sort them or divide them into groups.
Acorn Place Value
Acorns & Oak Leaves
Callaway
Buy at AllPosters.com
1. Estimate how many acorns you collected. Write the estimates on post-its and attach the post-its to your number line or hundreds board.
2. Put 10 acorns into each cup. 10 cups on a paper plate and ten plates on separate tables.
Pumpkins and Place Value has many more place value ideas.
More Place Value ideas and activities
The Squirrels love counting and eating these seeds!
Squirrely Postcard by SavageArtworks
View other Squirrel Postcards
Your children will love pretending to be squirrels as they carve pumpkins and count the pumpkin seeds in this fun place value lesson with a pumpkin theme. Cut the top off the pumpkin, scoop out the seeds and then begin to divide the seeds into groups of 10's. Help your little squirrels learn math with this fun place value unit study.
Keeping the Squirrels Busy
More Autumn Theme Centers and Activities
Set up the Sensory Table with water and have some leaves, acorns and sticks that you collected on your walk nearby.
Children can determine whether or not each item sinks or floats. Some children may discover that leaves, for example may float if gently placed on top but sink if pushed underwater.
- Fall or Harvest Center Activities
- Go on a Fall walk collecting colored leaves, acorns, etc. Graph, sink and float, Venn graphs...
- Sink or Float Worksheet
- Sink or Float recording worksheet.
Paper Tube Squirrels
Recycle Paper Tubes to Make Squirrels with Acorns
After reading The Squirrel's Thanksgiving.
Photocopy the squirrel body parts, color them, glue them to a toilet paper tube for each squirrel in the family.
Make four or eight squirrels to retell the story of The Squirrel's Thanksgiving.
Feed the Squirrels
Do you have any acorns for the Squirrels?
Whether you live in the country or in a city you will find plenty of squirrels. If you decide to feed the squirrels you will have endless hours of enjoying their antics.
Keep a pad of paper handy and a pair of binoculars. Don't forget to share your experiences with others.
Baby Squirrel caught eating an acorn
"Baby squirrel caught eating an acorn on top of a fence in a farm. We held the camera right up to him/her? and did not mind at all. "
Isn't this adorable? You wouldn't want to watch this tiny infant squirrel chewing away at his/her lunch? The video is sped up as the squirrel obviously took his/her time eating it.
Isn't this adorable? You wouldn't want to watch this tiny infant squirrel chewing away at his/her lunch? The video is sped up as the squirrel obviously took his/her time eating it.
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Don't Feed the Squirrels
Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeders
Even if you don't intend to feed the Squirrels you may find that they have found food.
Leave some nuts outside in the playground in a spot where you can observe from the window. Record how long it takes for squirrels to find it.
Garenteed Squirrel Proof Feeders
A must read Tale of Squirrels and Bird Lovers
It has come down to this. I'm currently the high bidder on eBay, for coyote urine.
Someone in Kansas outbid me on the red fox whiz.
Bobcat tinkle has no bids. I've got it bookmarked.
I've never seen a coyote in my life, but suddenly I'm desperately bidding $20.50 for 16 ounces of his No. 1. And it's even in "a convenient spray bottle."
Blame my wife, and Father's Day. Maybe Home Depot too, but I'm afraid that someday I might need an orange extension cord, so I'm leaving them out of this.
- The battle of the century
- It was the ultimate showdown of man vs. creature when a pack of squirrels invaded Don Barone's bird feeder.
Squirrels at the Bird Feeder
Do you like squirrels?
Naughty Squirrel Post Card by twopurringcats
See other Squirrel Postcards
Do you feed the Squirrels?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, I love to watch their antics.
TransplantedSoul says:
Yes. I have in every place I've lived since college.
Posted November 02, 2011
pawpaw911 says:
We have an oak tree, and they actually feed themselves. They are fun to watch.
Posted October 20, 2011
EMangl says:
sure - two bags full of nuts collected already for winter, then we go feeding them in the park
Posted October 10, 2011
Not by choice. How can I stop them?
JoyfulReviewer says:
Even though I love to watch them, I don't want to encourage even more squirrels into my yard.
Posted December 01, 2011
daria369 says:
No way I'd feed them, around here they have plenty of food year round.
Posted September 02, 2011
blanckj says:
No! I don't want them all over my property eating my garden veggies.
Posted August 14, 2011
CruiseReady says:
We don't.Hubby would like a bird feeder, but we would need a squirrel proof one, I think Lots of squirrels in our yard. They are great entertainment for the kitty, though
Posted April 11, 2011
Acorn Science
Squirrels and Acorns and How Trees begin to Grow
- Acorn Collecting and Handling Procedures
- Official Virginia Department of Forestry Web site: The department carries out forestry activities on state-owned lands, manages State Forests, enforces forestry laws, protects forests from fire and forest pests, performs statewide forest resource planning and forestry outreach education in forest st
Squirrels and Acorns in the Oak Tree
Learn about Oak Trees
- Riverside County Oak Tree Management Guidelines
- Riverside County Oak Tree Management Guidelines
- Interesting Facts about Oak Trees
- This page contains interesting facts about Oak trees
“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.”
State Tree: The Oak
Acorns from Oak Trees provide food for Squirrels
The Charter Oak by Charles de Wolfe Brownell
If it wasn't for the oak tree, squirrels wouldn't have any acorns. Oak trees take many, many years to grow. Some people think that means that it's not worth our time to plant an oak tree. I disagree. The oak tree that we plant today may help squirrels find food 100 years from now. We better hurry up and plant a few acorns.
- Iowa State Tree - Iowa Unit Study
- Designated as the official state tree in 1961, the oak tree was chosen because it is abundant in the state and serves as shelter, food and nesting cover for many animals and birds including squirrels.
Acorns, the nuts of oak trees, are eaten by many animals and birds. Wild turkeys, pheasants, quail, wood ducks, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, blue jays, nuthatches, grackles, and several kinds of woodpeckers are a few of the species that depend on acorns for a significant portion of their diet. - Connecticut State Tree White Oak Quercus alba
- THE CHARTER OAK
(White Oak, Quercus alba)
STATE TREE
Deep-rooted in the historic tradition of Connecticut, the Charter Oak is one of the most colorful and significant symbols of the spiritual strength and love of freedom, which inspired our Colonial forebears in their militant resistance to tyranny. This venerable giant of the forest, hundreds of years old when it hid the treasured Charter in 1687, finally fell during a great storm on August 21, 1856.
The Squirrel Children learn about Walnuts
How are Walnuts simular to Acorns?
Buddy and Brenda Squirrel were munching on walnuts one day and started to ask Mama Squirrel all about walnuts and the trees they come from. They decided to do a little research and found this wonderful lens just chalk full of useful information:
Making Acorn Flour
Mother Squirrel's Recipies
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- Making Acorn Flour
- "It would be neat," Mom said one morning, "to actually try to make acorn flour, don't you think? "
How could I have known that this small project, meant to take an afternoon or so, would take four whole days.
How could I know that I would appreciate the women in Jamestown about twenty times more by seeing what they went through everyday.
Mamma Squirrel's Whole Wheat Nut Bread
Bread for the Squirrel Family and Yours Too!
Ingredients
* 2 cups whole wheat flour
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 2 Tablespoons of Wheat Germ
* 1 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, etc. toasted
* 1/2 cup dried cranberries and dates
* 1/2 cup honey
* 1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 1/2 cups milk
* 1/2 cup molasses
- Date Nut Bread Recipe
- Date nut bread is made with chopped dates, butter, boiling water, egg, and walnuts or pecans. A flavorful date nut bread recipe with photo.
Mama Squirrels Favorite Nut Roll Recipe
For the most delicious way to round out a Squirrel's Thanksgiving, Mama Squirrel chose Jaguar Julie's Nut Rolls. What a delicious dessert.
The Squirrels welcome the Cousins
Tom Chapin's song Cousins:
Cousins, cousins! Here come the boys! Bedlam, mayhem! Noise, noise, noise!
This is an album that you just can't pass up. We sing it in the car with kids from 0-12+ and even sometimes get the teens to sing along. The cousins in The Squirrel's Thanksgiving are pretty wild but I'm not sure that they are quite as wild as the cousins in Tom Chapin's song.
Cousins, cousins! Here come the boys! Bedlam, mayhem! Noise, noise, noise!
This is an album that you just can't pass up. We sing it in the car with kids from 0-12+ and even sometimes get the teens to sing along. The cousins in The Squirrel's Thanksgiving are pretty wild but I'm not sure that they are quite as wild as the cousins in Tom Chapin's song.
Squirrel Cousins
Learn about other Rodents
Squirrel Songs and Poems
Let's sing about squirrels!
- A Squirrel Song
- Original Author Unknown
Sung to: "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain"
I'll be gathering all the acorns till they're gone.
I'll be gathering all the acorns till they're gone.
I'll be gathering all the acorns, gathering all the acorns,
Gathering all the acorns till they're gone.
(Children make collecting motion with their hands)
And I'll put them all inside my little home.
I will put them all inside my little home.
I will put them all inside, put them all inside,
Put them all inside my little home.
(children pretend to place nuts in tree house)
And I'll eat the nuts until the winter's gone.
I will eat the nuts until the winter's gone.
I will eat the nuts until, eat the nuts until,
Eat the nuts until the winter's gone.
(children pretend to eat acorns)
Then I'll do it all again come next fall.
I will do it all again come next fall.
I will do it all again, do it all again,
Do it all again come next fall.
(children make gathering motion with hands and arms again) - The Mississippi Squirrel Revival by Ray Stevens
- The day the squirrel went berserk,
In the First Self-Righteous Church
in that sleepy little town of Pascagoula.
It was a fight for survival,
that broke out in revival.
They were jumpin pews and shouting Hallelujah!
Planting an Acorn on the Moon
Could a squirrel live on the Moon?
In his short story, They Forgot to Plant an Acorn on the Moon, Phil Shapiro uses scientific fact and imagination to explore the possibility of planting oak trees on the moon. After reading the story to the children you might like to add a new chapter about the possibility of squirrels living on the moon as well.
Photo Credit: Planting an Acorn
Available on Zazzle
- They Forgot to Plant an Acorn on the Moon
- They Forgot to Plant an Acorn on the Moon
The surface of the moon looks a lot like a desert. It's dry, rocky, and sandy. There are no plants on the moon. Not even a small cactus.In the year 1969 human beings from planet Earth first stepped on the moon. They walked around a bit and collected some more...
Squirrel Coloring Pages
This image of a squirrel comes from an out of print encyclopedia magazine I bought in Costa Rica. The word ardilla means squirrel in Spanish.
Baby Squirrel
Free Printable Coloring Page...Squirrel, education more...0 points
Squirrel Gathering Nuts
Gardening Coloring Pages for Kids,Free printable c more...0 points
Baby Squirrel
Free Printable Coloring Page...Squirrel, education more...0 points
Squirrel Eating Pine Cone
Squirrel Eating Pine Cone clip art - vector clip a more...0 points
Squirrel Family
Squirrel Family -- Free home schooling curriculum more...0 points
Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day
I Love Squirrels
Available on Zazzle
Now that Christmas is over, what is the next major holiday?
Why ...Squirrel Appreciation Day of course.
What do you plan to do to celebrate? Do you have acorns for the squirrels?
To show your appreciation of the rodents in your life you might make bagel-and-birdseed squirrel feeders It will be a hit with all your bushy tailed friends and maybe some feathered ones as well.
- Holiday Insights : Squirrel Appreciation Day
- Squirrel Appreciation Day is an opportunity to enjoy and appreciate your tree climbing, nut gathering neighborhood squirrels.
- How to Celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day | eHow.com
- How to Celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day. Once a year, go nuts for squirrels. The official Squirrel Appreciation Day is January 21. Why not show your appreciation for the bushy-tailed little nut-gatherers by trying one of the following activi...
Celebrate Acorn Day!
Plant an Acorn for Acorn Day!
Sessile Oak (Quercus Petraea) Plant, Flower, Leaves and Acorn, Illustration
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- Acorn Day - October 17, 2009
- Join us for an educational and fun-filled day for the entire family! Observe the time-honored tradition of preparing acorn for food and learn Native arts & crafts-making. Sample Native foods, and spend the afternoon helping us celebrate the acorn harvest season!
- California State Indian Museum - State Indian Museum - Sacramento365.com - Historical Information.The Irish Oak Renewal Foundation.
- The Irish national tree.
At the end of the 16th century, Ireland was still a relatively wooded country, with one-eight of its surface area covered in forests. Most of this woodland was of Oak
Squirrels in the News!
- Squirrel Tracks Wooden Trains - Old News
- Old news items from Squirrel Tracks Wooden Trains' home page.
- Squirrel behavior is not so nutty
- Sneaky Squirrels Pretend to Bury Nuts!
- Learn to say "squirrel" in almost 300 different languages!
- Notice that some languages may have more than one word for squirrel; because they apply a different word for a different type of squirrel.
- The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Acorns - Squirrels Starving : TreeHugger
- Image: A hungry squirrel in Virginia (Corbis) Is Mother Nature calling it quits? Along with the baffling collapse of bee populations worldwide to other strange natural phenomena, we can now add the bizarre disappearance of acorns in widespread areas along
- Watch out for baby squirrels nesting in trees
- Most people think spring is the season when baby wildlife are born, but the local squirrel population has a different idea. Tree squirrels will often have two litters a year, one in January/February and another in July/August.
If a nest has blown down with babies in it and can be safely put it back in the tree, the mother squirrel will probably continue to care for her young. Often they have a second nest all ready in case they need it. If a baby is on the ground, it is important to try to reunite it with the mother. This can be done unless the baby is injured or cold-the mother will not take a cold baby back. - Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop - washingtonpost.com
- The idea seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn't find any acorns. None. No hickory nuts, either. Then he went out to look for himself. He came up with nothing. Nothing crunched underfoot. Nothing hit him on the head.
- Oak Nuts | Seven Days
- Fancy chefs are putting local squirrel food on the table
After Thanksgiving the Squirrels prepare for Chirstmas
Acorns for the Christmas Tree!
The Squirrel Family Decorates the Christmas Tree with Acorns!
The squirrel family collects acorns throughout the fall and as Christmas nears they gather to paints some of the acorns silver and gold. They then string the acorns and hang them on the Christmas Tree.
Acorns for the Squirrels is in the Stone Soup Homeschooling Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for having included the Acorns for the Squirrels in their directory. This directory has now been passed on to Stone Soup Homeschooling.
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Look who's Twittering about Squirrels
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- chelsi_wilson24
- A squirrel walks up to a tree and says "I forgot to store my acorns inside you and now I am dead" Ha it is funny cause the squirrels dies.
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- Ben_A_Hoe
- My head feels like it got shoved in a squirrels ass while it was shitting out acorns........that obviously means my hair is currently soft.
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- mr__charles
- RT@case_of_beer: I wish these squirrels would stop throwing acorns at my head when I'm tryna walk
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- Born2BeAUnicorn
- #WhatWillGagaWear A bark dress with acorns on it attracting all squirrels to it
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- Kayleighh1
- I wish I was a squirrel. Squirrels are happy animals. All those acorns.
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Squirrels scurry along the stone walls hiding acorns from the wild turkeys and the woodmice. Are squirrels rodents? What other animals do we think about during the fall?
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- @MobiStories #CakePopParty is soooo much fun!!! http://t.co/yNS9EHIK
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What do you do with acorns?
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JoyfulReviewer
Dec 1, 2011 @ 12:24 pm | delete
- How delightful and informative. Congratulations on having one of the top 35 homeschooling lenses.
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pencilonpaper
Nov 24, 2011 @ 3:14 pm | delete
- I saw a squirrel a couple of weeks ago in a park. It came down from one tree, crawled to another then back down, stopped for a minute standing still and watching the traffic from the near road, then lost its trace in a bush. Guess it was searching for some nuts.
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RobinDM
Nov 24, 2011 @ 1:28 pm | delete
- very nice job with a very interesting subject for children and adults alike!
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faykam69
Nov 17, 2011 @ 11:53 am | delete
- i love this blog you are working really good
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collettehrock
Nov 12, 2011 @ 9:31 pm | delete
- These activities are great, a great range of ideas for when the grand kids visit
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ModernChakra
Nov 10, 2011 @ 7:58 pm | delete
- I love squirrels and these activities would have been amazing... where were you when I was growing up!?!?! Thank you for a great lens!
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cffutah
Nov 3, 2011 @ 10:15 pm | delete
- great tribute to the squirrel! I prefer to watch them instead of eating them, had to eat some squirrel soup before, little gamy for my taste.
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nancycarol
Nov 3, 2011 @ 9:27 pm | delete
- Squirrels are delightful little critters to watch. I used to sit on my sister's front porch in Indiana and watch them play in her yard and 3 big trees. They were so cute, and they played together like little kids. I enjoyed this lens.
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traveller27
Nov 3, 2011 @ 8:08 am | delete
- Great images - very nice lens!
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Nov 3, 2011 @ 7:39 am | delete
- loved your lens! i love squirrels! i live in ms and i have a toy chihuahua who barks at everything except squirrels! he watches them run around thru my sliding glass doors! he looks at them, and they look at him, it is so cute!
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Southernemma
Nov 2, 2011 @ 1:49 pm | delete
- Great lens! I can't wait to try some of these out with my kids.
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TransplantedSoul
Nov 2, 2011 @ 6:49 am | delete
- We have an oak tree in the yard that they love. I also buy them peanuts in the shell when it is nasty outside.
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Oct 18, 2011 @ 6:45 pm | delete
- Another super collection of learning opportunities. *Blessed*
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- Fun lens and images! :)
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- I feed them to my little squirrel of course!
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