This year, J is learning about different habitats and animals. We are currently using Winter Promise's Animals and Their Worlds. Each day, we read about different animals and weekly, we focus on one particular animal. Winter Promise supplies a notebook page for the animal of the week but I felt like J needed more. Not necessarily more to do but I wanted to increase her comprehension while we were reading. So I created my own notebook sheets for J to work through each week.
We will also be reading about reptiles. I will have J read about the characteristics of reptiles and write/draw what she has learned. Because we use many different resources (not just the ones from the program), she will be able to choose what she would like to add to her notebook page.
Another day, we will be reading about turtles and tortoises. It seemed only natural to add a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the features of both.
Lastly, the focus animal of week 8 is alligators. I created several printables to work with while learning about alligators. Above is an alligator math mat. J will use teeth printables to work through addition sentences. I also included a poem by Dennis Lee about Alligator Pie. I decided to use this poem for spelling practice and added some language arts activities as well.
This printable is my creation, it is not created to replace the program we are using. It was created to compliment it. Please use it accordingly. I have had the idea of creating printables to compliment what we are learning for several weeks. I know that I have started with week 8 of Winter Promise and I have plans to go back and create printables for the earlier weeks. But right now, I will probably focus on the following weeks of our learning. If you have any suggestions or problems, please feel free to contact me. Enjoy learning about the wetlands.
The clipart alligator is from KPM Doodles.
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