Crafty Squirrels are Counting Acorns
Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving by making place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations.
What will they 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 they 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...
Squirrels and Acorns Table of Contents
- Tales of Squirrels and Acorns
- Squirrel Tales from the Green Forest
- Stuffed Squirrels and Acorns
- The Acorn People
- Stringing Acorns
- The Squirrel Children learn to write
- Squirrel and Acorn Cards
- Brown Squirrel Song
- Little by Little, the Acorn Said
- Poetry of Squirrels and Acorns
- Acorn Math
- Squirrels and Acorns for the Doll House
- Keeping the Squirrels Busy
- Baby Squirrel caught eating an acorn
- Acorn Science
- Squirrels and Acorns in the Oak Tree
- State Tree: The Oak
- Making Acorn Flour
- The Squirrels welcome the Cousins
- Squirrel Cousins
- Squirrel Songs and Poems
- Planting an Acorn on the Moon
- After Thanksgiving the Squirrels prepare for Chirstmas
- Squirrel Appreciation Day
- Celebrate Acorn Day!
- Squirrels in the News!
- Acorns for the Squirrels is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
- Look who's Twittering about Squirrels
- What do you do with acorns?
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 eachother and to appreciate having good manners.
- The Squirrel's Thanksgiving
- Taking our modern lifestyles to heart, MobiStories was created to instill the love of reading in today's children.
Tales of Squirrels and Acorns
Squirrel and Acorn Story
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.
Squirrel Tales from the Green Forest
Flying Squirrel
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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.
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Stuffed Squirrels and Acorns
A Plush Squirrel and Acorn for Snuggling
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.
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Squizzy the Black Squirrel: A Fabulous Fable of Friendship
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Facts about Squirrels
Do Squirrels eat acorns?
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.
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 comradery 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.
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Stringing Acorns
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.
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- 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.
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.
- Katie & Co.
- Fun Educational Activities For The Classroom
The Squirrel Children learn to write
1. Cut out an outline of a squirrel and repaint it with black chalkboard paint.
2. Attach it to a small trashcan.
3. Write words related to the Squirrel and Acorn unit on 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.
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- Squirrel Plywood Cutouts
Squirrel Words
Squirrel and Acorn Literacy Activities
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
Acorn Plurals
- File Folder Games for math, reading, phonics, and more....
- File folder games for centers or to help reinforce skills!
Squirrel and Acorn Cards
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
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.
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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
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.
"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
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.- 5-14 - Illustrations and photos - Natural habitats
- Royalty-free colour illustrations of different natural habitats. These are offered free for educational use by Learning and Teaching Scotland.
- 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.
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Acorn Math
Count, sort and add the acorns.
- 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.
- Mathematics Their Way
- Inexpensive objects that can be used as
manipulatives include "cotton balls, toothpicks, acorns, pine needles, leaves, popcorn, cereal,
and so on"
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.
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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
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.
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Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's
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Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication. This lens has rhymes, songs and activities for teaching S...
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Natural Math Manipulatives
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A hands-on approach to learning new concepts involving all 5 senses makes understanding easier and quicker for learners of all styles. Here you will find manipulatives that intrigue, excite and encourage exploration. From wooden blocks to needle fel...
Acorn Place Value
Acorns & Oak Leaves
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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.
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More Place Value ideas and activities
The Squirrels love counting and eating these seeds!
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Pumpkins and Place Value
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Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the top and smell the fresh pumpkin smell. Carving a Jack O'Lantern leads into a mathematical unit study of place value that incorporates all five senses. Counting pumpkin seeds into groups of 10...
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.
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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 feed the Squirrels?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, I love to watch their antics.
motorpurrr says:
We used to go to a small store by a lake that sold nuts to feed the squirrels that hung out there. They would eat on our heads.
Posted August 11, 2009
mike says:
yes i feed the squirrels. i have one that lives with me. and eats at the table with me
Posted January 17, 2009
ShamanicShift says:
Yes! Every year for the snow & ice covered winter months I set up a Critter Shrine in back where Squirrel, Mouse, & Sparrow (& their flying cousins) ALL get seeds or nuts (& there are carrots for the bunnies).
Posted January 11, 2009
nightbear says:
Yes, I feed the squirrels and the birds and they all live in harmony. The birds eat the squirrel food and the squirrels eat the bird feed and they all swim in the bird bath. Ahhhhh Harmony.
Posted December 19, 2008
jhyuygiui says:
by hand
Posted November 24, 2008
debnet says:
I just moved to a new house and am proud that I have a beautiful squirrel who visits my garden. I don't yet have a feeder but was leaving little treats on the decking for him. However, he'd eaten or taken most of his peanuts and a few remaining ones had fallen between the planks...so he gnawed the wood away trying to reach them...whoops! The decking now has a chunk out of it and the nuts are on a stepping stone LOL!!
Posted November 17, 2008
GregGiordano says:
They eat the berries that fall off our trees. I like watching them and so do my kids.
Posted November 12, 2008
Lisa_Jo says:
I used to have two huge oak trees in my yard. Those little rascals were trying to store their acorns in the air filter of my car! They were a joy to watch.
Posted November 11, 2008
GrowWear says:
They seem to handle getting their own groceries pretty well. I love to watch them, though. They really are cute.
Posted November 09, 2008
Not by choice. How can I stop them?
Acorn Science
Squirrels and Acorns and How Trees begin to Grow
- Acorn Collecting and Handling Procedures
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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:-
What Can You Do With A Walnut?
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The walnut is such a versatile resource, that I decided to see how many uses I could find for it! Through this lens, I hope to share with you some of the many uses of the walnut including yummy walnut recipes. I'll reguarly be adding items about wa...
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.-
Nut Roll -- Traditional Hungarian Pastry
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The Nut Roll is a Hungarian traditional pastry that is a sweet bread known as Beigli. Grandma made her beigli or nut roll usually during the holidays of Christmas and Thanksgiving. Beigli [pronounced BAY-glee] is really a Hungarian sweet bread with s...
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.
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Squirrel Cousins
Learn about other Rodents
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Common Rodents: Rats and Mice
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After reading this sentence, close your eyes and think of the word "rodent", then think of the first rodent that comes to mind. It's a mouse or rat, right? Of course it is! Rats and mice are perhaps the most common rodents other than lemmi...
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Lemmings: Falling into the Sea of Knowledge
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When the winds start to howl and the snow begins to blow you can capture your student's attention with this innovative Arctic Unit Study focusing on lemmings. Your little lemmings will be excited to learn with a theme that includes little furry crea...
Squirrel Songs and Poems
- 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)
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.
- 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...
After Thanksgiving the Squirrels prepare for Chirstmas
Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day
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!
- 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.
Acorns for the Squirrels is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for including the Acorns for the Squirrels in their Online Unit Study Directory.
- Internet Directory of Unit Studies
- The Four Wheelers Internet Directory of Unit Studies contains a list, roughly arranged by subject, of links to unit studies that are published on the Internet.
Look who's Twittering about Squirrels
This picture is in the public domain from the USFWS Digital Library.
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- MissTyes
- #nevertrust the squirrels on the quad...they got AKs filled with acorns...gangsta ass squirrels
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- hollywudbob
- Oddly fitting, I'm sitting in my truck eating sunflower seeds watching two squirrels stuff themselves with acorns.
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- A/C repairmen are in our attic. It sounds like the biggest squirrels ever running around up there. It's scaring the acorns out of me.
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- Collect the acorns while avoiding squirrels and birds. http://bit.ly/7A6V8U
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- RT @theherbshack: I just passed a big oak tree & thr must have bn 10-15 squirrels gathering acorns furiously. We going 2 have a bad winter?
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Oct 14, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
- An excellent lens for teachers and parents. And me. I love watching the Abert squirrels around our house in Flagstaff. They're going bonkers right now--busy, busy. They're SO cute ... but, at the same time, so intent on getting right in front of my car. I'm always stopping, honking and even getting out of the car sometimes to move them along. Such frustrating little buggers!
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen May 28, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
- Welcome to the Nature and the Outdoors Group
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- hlkljgk hlkljgk May 19, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
- there is so much great info here. love the acorn math!
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- tandemonimom tandemonimom Apr 11, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
- Another 5***** lens! This lens is now a featured lens on the newly redesigned Homeschooling Group!
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- naturegirl7 naturegirl7 Mar 9, 2009 @ 11:31 am
- Another great teaching lens. Welcome to the Naturally Native Squids group. Don't forget to add your lens link to the appropriate plexo and vote for it.
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- mbrownauthor mbrownauthor Feb 14, 2009 @ 7:01 am
- Wow...I absolutely love your lenses, and will be back for more. I taught at a preschool/child care center for five years, and I love teaching material. I helped develop and gather our curriculum, and enjoyed it very much! Great job!
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- ShamanicShift ShamanicShift Jan 11, 2009 @ 8:47 am
- What a beautiful, remarkable lens! I'm so happy I found this lens (just in time) just as I was looking for a holiday I didn't yet celebrate. Hooray - I didn't miss Squirrel Appreciation Day!
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Jan 9, 2009 @ 11:47 am | in reply to OhMe
- Thank you for telling me about the Brown Squirrel Song. I had never heard of it before.
Yes, I did change my avatar.
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- OhMe OhMe Jan 8, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
- This is so neat. I imagine the children love this. I used to sing "Brown Squirrel" with my son all the time and he loved to watch the squirrels in the yard. Great job. Did you change your avatar?
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- poutine poutine Dec 31, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
- Beautiful lens!
I really enjoyed reading it and looking at the great pictures.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Dec 21, 2008 @ 4:13 pm | in reply to lakeerieartists
- I had never heard of totally black squirrels before.
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- ArtByLinda ArtByLinda Dec 19, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
- Fantastic lens Evelyn, I love your work!
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Dec 19, 2008 @ 8:12 am
- Your lenses are always superior. Great job. In parts of Ohio, we have totally black squirrels.
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Dec 19, 2008 @ 8:12 am
- Your lenses are always superior. Great job. In parts of Ohio, we have totally black squirrels.
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- nightbear nightbear Dec 19, 2008 @ 12:09 am
- Very Delightful lens. So active and engaging. really enjoyed it.
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- WendyKrick WendyKrick Dec 18, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
- This is a wonderful lens. Loved it.
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- MindGuru MindGuru Dec 18, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
- These would make such good lesson modules for the young ones. Good job.
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- andreaberrios andreaberrios Dec 18, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
- Love your lens, very interesting. Thank you!
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- Winter52 Winter52 Dec 15, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
- I love coming over to your lenses. I always learn something new. :) And, you have just given me a topic for dinner conversation. :) Now I will know more than my daughter lol
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- groovyoldlady groovyoldlady Nov 25, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
- Stellar, as always. I loved the acorn poem. You are very gifted at making educational lenses!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 23, 2008 @ 11:51 am
- Forgot to say, lensrolled to my St Tiggywinkles lens too!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 23, 2008 @ 11:50 am
- Lovely lens Evelyn - when I have grandchildren, I know where to point their parents! Lensrolled to my Autumn lens.
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- gods_grace_notes gods_grace_notes Nov 18, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
- Yet another fabulous lens, Evelyn,
Squirrels are one of my favorite outdoor entertainment.. they're absolutely delightful.
I appreciate the TLC you put into all your lenses, and this one is no exception!
Connie
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Nov 17, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
- You know that your writing style is so spectacular that you ought to be penning / publishing children's books -- do you do that too? Lovely lens -- I'm plain nuts over it. xoxoxo PS This mama loves nut roll too.
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- debnet debnet Nov 17, 2008 @ 2:51 am
- Forgot to say, lensrolled to 'What Can You Do With A Walnut' :)
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- debnet debnet Nov 17, 2008 @ 2:50 am
- Great lens! So many activities to keep the children busy whilst learning and enjoying themselves. Thank you for featuring 'What Can You Do With A Walnut' :)
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- GregGiordano GregGiordano Nov 12, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
- Great lens. My kids will love this!
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- Lisa_Jo Lisa_Jo Nov 11, 2008 @ 12:22 am
- I used to make little pipes with them. It was such innocent fun in those days. I love all of your lenses. 5 stars and a Digg. Keep them coming.
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- GrowWear GrowWear Nov 9, 2008 @ 11:40 am
- Lovely lens! Another one to make learning fun! :)
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- go206th go206th Nov 6, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
- I always enjoy your lenses. Great Job.. 5*
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- Mortira Mortira Nov 6, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
- Another great lens! Welcome to the Family Time group! * * * * *
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