A guide for using our resources

Children will compare and contrast two kinds of owls.

Vocabulary: garras, madriguera, nocturno, polluelos

Science Focus: animals and habitats

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• In these charming stories, Pequeño Búho describes his forest home at night and during the day.

• Together, write a journal entry as an owl. Use the issue to write one entry from the point of view of a night owl and one entry from the point of view of a day owl.
• Have children dictate their ideas as you write. Kids can also come up and write any letters or words they may know.

• Together, hunt for and circle the word búho each time it appears.

Skill: art, fine-motor

Materials: cupcake liners, construction paper, brown paper bags, glue

• IIf you like, you can precut the shapes needed from colored construction paper. Cut orange triangles for beaks. Cut white circles for the eyes and smaller black circles for the pupils (or you can use googly eyes).
• For each owl, flatten a cupcake liner and fold each side toward the center to make wings. Fold the top edge down to make the head and glue into place. Then glue on the construction paper eyes and beaks.
• For a cute display, cut off the bottoms of brown paper bags and roll them up to make branches. Glue a few branches on a background. Then glue on a few owls to perch on each branch!