Fun During Homeschool

Yesterday, we didn't get to do any schoolwork. We had just started my daughter's math, when the electric company shows up at the door. They were doing routine maintenance and our power would be off for a few hours. Since we use the computer a lot in our schooling, that pretty much ended the day for us.

We have been studying birds for the last two weeks so I decided to order owl pellets for them to dissect. I love Home Science Tools for ordering anything for science. Here are the kits that we received.

I put the pellets on a plate and gave the kids their tweezers and pick.

 They got to work. It was slow going because there were so many small bones. The one pellet had four skulls. Michael figured out that they belonged to a mouse or small rodent because of the teeth. He had fun trying to match up the rest of the bones and put the skeleton back together.

The other pellet had five skulls in it. They were from a small rodent also. It did not have as many other bones. Caitlyn spent quite a bit of time working on matching up the bones also.

The result: happy children who were glad to do something besides book work and a happy mom that loves to see her kids excited about learning!