Owl babies homework

The following activities in this” Teachers Pack: Key Stage One” are suggested as ways of using the process of learning about owls as a route into activities in many parts of the curriculum. Find out what Owls eat. What do their prey eat?

Athene the Goddess of Athens, Wisdom and War had Little Owls as her messengers. The people of Athens venerated the Little Owl and encouraged them to live in the city on the Acropolis. For centuries a little owl could be found on the four drachma coin and is still depicted on the one Euro coin of Greece today.

Owls appear in Egyptian Hieroglyphics ( opportunity for a side investigation of picture writing) and are mentioned in the bible. William Shakespeare is probably the originator of the” Tuwhit Tuwhoo” transliteration of the Tawny Owl’s call (This is usually two owls calling and responding to each other rather than one owl.

Three baby owls, Sarah, Percy and Bill, wake up one night in their hole in a tree to find that their mother has gone. So they sit on a branch and wait. Darkness gathers and the owls grow anxious, wondering when their mother will return. But, at last, she does, and they bounce up and down with joy, welcoming her home.