A Note To Parents: We make every effort for Roxanne's blog to be a SAFE site for children. Whenever possible, activities are in pdf format or link to safe sites for children. Please feel free to use the information in these posts for homeschool studies! All rights reserved by author and nature photographer, Virginia Parker Staat.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Seeing All that We Can See

It has been wonderful to see so many animals on our trip.  I saw eagles flying.  I saw horses running.  I saw bears eating berries.  I saw sea stars and bison and moose.  Just look at the photos in our last post!

When I think of all the animals that I have seen, it helps me to remember how important my eyes are to me.  We need to take special care of our eyes.  We need to be safe when we play sports.  We also need to have our eyes checked every year by a doctor.

To learn about eye safety, please click here:
http://isee.nei.nih.gov/pdf/EyeSafety.pdf
and
http://isee.nei.nih.gov/pdf/HVM_Calendar_tagged.pdf

For more information about your eyes and healthy vision, please click here:  http://www.nei.nih.gov/activitybooks/pdf/activityguide6to8full.pdf
and
http://www.eyedidntknowthat.info/pdf/EyeFactFortuneTeller.pdf

Do you want to learn ways to fool your eyes?  Just click here:
https://www.vsp.com/dms-inline/pdfs/edc/Eyecare_Discovery_Guide_Part_Four.pdf

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Animals We Have Seen!

We are still on our trip to Alaska and Canada.  Soon we will head for home.  It has been so much fun!

We have seen many animals on our trip.  We have seen moose and bear.

Bull Moose
Grizzly Bears
We have seen eagles and wood bison.


Bald Eagle
Wood Bison
We have seen fox and caribou.

Cross Fox
Caribou
Some of the animals that we have seen are very special.  They are called endangered animals.  When an animal is endangered, it means that there are only a few of them left in the wild.  Bald eagles, grizzly bears, and wood bison are all endangered animals.

If you would like to learn more about endangered animals, we found some fun activity books for you!  Just click here to download them:

http://www.epa.gov/espp/coloring/cbook.pdf
http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/mexicanwolf/pdf/ES_coloring_book.pdf
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_0023.pdf

Why should we save endangered animals?  Read these and learn!

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/Why_Save_Endangered_Species_Brochure.pdf
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/polaraction.pdf'