Today my son did our introductory work for Nova Scotia. I found this page from Crayola and printed it off and used it as the basis of some study.
As you can see on the page it talked about Canada's provincial flower. We learned more about the Mayflower here. and then had a chance to see a real one via video. We were amazed by the huge proboscis on the bee fly.
The Osprey in the provincial Bird. The Osprey is a fish eating bird. Therefore they are generally found around water... streams, lakes, oceans etc. The gripping pads on their feet help them hang onto their fish after they dive 9-30 metres into the water after them. it's rather neat... if osprey have to carry a large fish for quite some distance they will orient the fish so that it has the least wind resistance. :) Cool how God built that intelligence into them.
Bald eagles will share the same habitat with them, being larger they will often force an osprey to drop it's fish and take it for it's own meal. Osprey have a black stripe extending from their eye to their back, and it's one of the ways you can distinguish it from the bald eagle.
They have a staggered nesting season, which means in times of poverty the older bigger offspring eat while the smaller ones will starve.
My son really liked what happened in this video.
Bald eagles will share the same habitat with them, being larger they will often force an osprey to drop it's fish and take it for it's own meal. Osprey have a black stripe extending from their eye to their back, and it's one of the ways you can distinguish it from the bald eagle.
They have a staggered nesting season, which means in times of poverty the older bigger offspring eat while the smaller ones will starve.
My son really liked what happened in this video.
We filled in our Canada map showing where Nova Scotia was located and it's capital.
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We also learned the history of the flag. The crest being from old Scottish roots. It is the St. Andrews cross in the reverse colours with the Scottish coat of arms. Nova Scotia stands for "New Scotland". For a brief period of time they used a different flag/coat of arms issued by Queen Victoria, but it was not well received, so the old flag and coat of arms was again put to use.
We learned a bit more about the history of Nova Scotia as we coloured our pages. Isn't Youtube a neat way to expand our horizons? :)
So that was our introduction to Nova Scotia. Gives me a week to find a craft to do next week as we expand our knowledge base. :)
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