It finally feels like winter in Tallahassee today with cold winds from the north blowing and temperatures dropping. What a great time to teach students about what animals do in winter. I've put together some great resources to check out. There are some wonderful books for Read Alouds. This one is my favorite. If you click on the picture you will find this book. Just scroll down the page to see lots more books to choose from. Looking for some lesson plans? Look no further that Scholastic for the Pre-K-2 grades. Here is a sample of one of the free activities from Scholastic which you can access by clicking on the pictures below. If you are looking for lessons for intermediate grades you should check out this one. Just click on the picture below to see the full lesson plan. I love writing my own Read Aloud and Guided Reading Books for students. Here is my Unit: Animals in Winter for K-1. I have just revised it and added 25 new pages of activities and materials. My original Shared Reading Book, "What Animals Do All Winter Through" is a fun book in poem form that students will love to hear over and over again. You can make copies of the 3 ways animals get through winter like the one below: (There's a B/W one for students). After each page students will hold up the card to show what each animal does in winter. Below is a preview of the Shared Reading book, Word Wall, Picture Word Cards, and the Early Emergent Reader. Here is the preview of the 2 Emergent Level Readers, Comprehension Activities, and Hibernate, Migrate, and Adapt Animal Word Sorts. There are also 3 different level "My Animals in Winter Writing Books, Opinion Piece Writing Activity, and 4 Literacy Activities. Just click on the images above to download the preview file to see sample pages of all the materials and activities in this packet. I have lots of new Pinterest boards for you to follow. Look which one TpT started to follow. Follow my blog with Bloglovin Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students. Stay warm! Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving.
These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.
Are you looking for a factual science unit about hibernation and migration that will tie into your next generation life science unit standards? Our Hibernation, Migration and Adaptation animal unit looks closer at animal needs and the adaptions used to help them survive.
Our Animals in Winter Migration, Hibernation & Adaptation post is an introduction to the three with activities, printables and ideas!
These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.
FREE worksheet to sort between animals who hibernate and migrate. Great science cut and paste activity for kindergarten and preschool.
In the Rocky Mountains, animals survive winter by choosing one of three main strategies. Most animals with migrate, hibernate, or they adapt.
December and January are the ideal months to study about winter animals (well if you live in the northern hemisphere). It is the time of the year when we
These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.
In our hibernation, adaptation and migration unit, we love to include hands-on activities, so we are learning how to make a migration diorama!
Whew! You know that feeling you get every year thinking about all the things you need to get done before school starts in the fall? I just had that feeling all over again and I'm pooped! Back story: My old school (Emerson Elementary) and my new school (Irving Elementary) were the two elementary schools that were destroyed in the May 2011 F-5 tornado that ripped our town of Joplin, Missouri in half. Both schools were placed in temporary facilities comprised of several FEMA modulars and small school buildings. This year, both schools were merged into one new school, Irving, and split into a K-2 and 3-5 campus for the first half of the year while our new "super school" was being built. The construction was completed late in November and on December 2, we got our first look. The front entrance to the building My empty classroom waiting to be filled! Our Learning Neighborhood There are 3 neighborhoods-K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Each neighborhood has it's own theme. Ours is The Park. The colors and "decorations" reflect the theme. These areas have several SmartBoards and will have tables and comfortable seating for collaborative learning. We started the big move on December 20th and furniture was moved December 23 and 26th. To say that I have had any sort of break this holiday would be a misnomer. I feel like I really do live at school. But it will be so worth it when the kiddos come in on the 6th to see the building! Here's a 360 degree tour of my new room! Welcome to Room A128! All rooms has interior glass walls so that the learning that is going on is evident! Check in area Writing Center. The black shelf on the right holds different kinds of paper, pre-made books, magnetic letters and magnet boards. The blank wall is kind of bothering me, but I can't figure out what I want to put up there. Reading Center. I am so excited about this area! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my seating bench on the left!! Calendar and meeting area. My rug is on back order. :-( Front of the room. Our voice level chart, daily schedule and my bulletin board. My "desk"/small group area. Science Center. I have BIG plans for this one come Spring! Under the table is my sensory tub. This is our "think spot". As a PBiS school, we have these spots so that students can reflect on their behavior choices. I have some cards that need to be laminated for the pocket chart that show some calming techniques and the basket in the window sill has some calm down jars, a notebook and crayons, some squeezy Eagles and a really soft turtle puppet. I love that they can also just sit and chill out and look out the window if need be. My storage cabinets. You can see the extra crayon drawers and supply buckets on the counter, pocket charts for all our station rotations on the tall door and our work station drawers on the left. Now....don't be (too) jealous....I also have a storage CLOSET!!!! student cubbies more student cubbies (I have 30 kiddos!), Puzzles and Games Center and the Building Center. And behind that door is... the tiny toilets! My principal brings everyone down when she gives tours just so they can see them! They are VERY tiny!! I share this bathroom with the teacher next door. Only Kindergarten has these. I'm not sure if I'm too keen on it or not. Is your head spinning yet? Mine is! And I've had a month to get used to the idea of it all. I can just say that I am so very thankful for everyone who has given time, energy, money, thoughts and prayers to help us through this whole ordeal. Our little Eagles are finally home!! Now, if you have gotten this far, you deserve a little somethin' somethin'. Here is a freebie I whipped up to use this week with my kiddos as we are relearning everything, getting back in the hang of school and adjusting to schedule changes and a new home. It correlates to my new best seller, Hibernate? Or Migrate? If you are interested, you can check out the mini unit by clicking on the cover below or click on the worksheet picture to snag it. I'm off now to cut out about five pounds of laminating that I drug home! Have a great weekend!
Learn how animals prepare for winter - do squirrels hibernate? What birds migrate? Books & activities for preschool, kindergarten & elementary kids!
Your students will use their knowledge of hibernation, migration, camouflage and dormancy to help them decipher which vocabulary word the scenarios are describing. Once they figure out the answer they will use the vocabulary color code at the top to color in the square. ...
Ideas for a unit on winter animals: hibernation, migration, and more winter animal adaptations. Hands-on learning, centers, writing, and more
Introduce your children to the concepts of hibernation, migration and adaptation and which ones follow each of these survival techniques.
The migration of animals and hibernation or animals in the winter are two popular science topics. These 8 resources for migration and hibernation will help primary teachers talk about vocabulary, experiment and identify animals that adapt for the winter.
Animal Adaptations in Winter task cards, pass game 15 information cards about how animals adapt in the winter are included. Students need to read the information and determine if the animal adapts and stays active, hibernates or migrates. There are also several options under staying active to choose from. Lots of critical thinking involved in this!! Animals included are: Earthworm Queen Bumblebee Arctic Fox Squirrel Deer Garter Snake Beaver Mouse Polar Bear Monarch Butterfly Brown Bat Woodchuck Snowshoe Hare Humpback Whale Canadian Goose I use this in either stations or a pass game. In both activities students get a copy of the recording sheet. Students travel around the room to different stations reading the information and determining the correct adaptation in station work. In the pass game, students remain seated and I pass out the information cards. After every student has enough time to read and make a determination, I tell them to PASS. That continues until each student has read each card. In the pass game you may need to have 2 copies of the information cards so each child has one-depending on the number of students in the class. Enjoy! THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF THE FOLLOWING BUNDLE-CHECK IT OUT FOR A DEAL! Adaptation Lesson Bundle including stations, cut and paste and task cards More great stuff on Ecology and Adaptations! *Adaptations and Natural Selection HW/Worksheet *Animal Research Project-Graphic Organizers, habitat, adaptations, locations *Animal Adaptation Experts Science Task Cards - reading, visuals & worksheets *Create A Critter animal adaptation Project *Behavioral and Structural (Physical) Adaptations Cut and Paste examples *Biome/ Ecosystem Research Template-Graphic Organizer for Non Fiction Writing *Quick Animal Adaptations Matching Cut and Paste *Animal Adaptations Observations Research Graphic Organizer-quick and easy!
We have been leaning what Hibernation, Adaptation and Migration are. Here's a printable craft to remind little ones what animals do in Winter at a glance.
ALuv and I just finished a 2-week unit in our science last week on animals in the winter. We had fun and both learned quite a bit! I wanted to share a few resources and ideas of how we integrated literacy into our study. We focused on the three ways that animals survive in the winter time: hibernation, migration, ... Read More about Animals in Winter
These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.
December and January are the ideal months to study about winter animals (well if you live in the northern hemisphere). It is the time of the year when we
Learn how animals prepare for winter - do squirrels hibernate? What birds migrate? Books & activities for preschool, kindergarten & elementary kids!
Free Art Collages for toddlers and preK to practice cutting, pasting and coloring!
Students can be introduced to the many animals that migrate and hibernate with this I Have... Who Has game with 24 cards. It be used for the whole class or as a center. It is a great review game or one to be used to start a unit for upper grades. It is available in color and black and white. To play: pass out all the cards to your students. Have one student ask a question from their card. The student with the answer gives the answer from their card and then asks the question on their card. Play continues in this way. Also see: Animal Classification Game Animal Habitat Game Animal Adaptations Animal Life Cycles
Ideas for a unit on winter animals: hibernation, migration, and more winter animal adaptations. Hands-on learning, centers, writing, and more
In our hibernation, adaptation and migration unit, we love to include hands-on activities, so we are learning how to make a migration diorama!
This educational Spotlight features photos and facts regarding the geographical patterns of and biological reasons behind animal migrations.
Looking for books about hibernation to read to preschoolers and kindergartners? You'll love this list of over 40 favorites!
The migration of animals and hibernation or animals in the winter are two popular science topics. These 8 resources for migration and hibernation will help primary teachers talk about vocabulary, experiment and identify animals that adapt for the winter.
Students can be introduced to the many animals that migrate and hibernate with this I Have... Who Has game with 24 cards. It be used for the whole class or as a center. It is a great review game or one to be used to start a unit for upper grades. It is available in color and black and white. To play: pass out all the cards to your students. Have one student ask a question from their card. The student with the answer gives the answer from their card and then asks the question on their card. Play continues in this way. Also see: Animal Classification Game Animal Habitat Game Animal Adaptations Animal Life Cycles
We have been really enjoying this unit study on Animals in Winter. Do you know what hibernation, migration and adaptation are and what they entail?
Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation... oh my! Your students will enjoy learning all kinds of fun animal facts with this unit! Includes: * Anchor chart labels for organizing information during your hibernation, migration, and adaptation lessons * 4 printable books to introduce topics to students (hibernation, types of hibernation, migration, and other adaptations) * Black bear, Black Bear, Where did you go? Individual readers (in color and B/W) * Black Bear Fact Cards * Bear/ hibernation Vocabulary cards * 2 reports with pre-writing/research pages (My Hibernation Report and My Animal Report) * 10 animal research pages for easy research! * 2 games (4 corners hibernation, migration, and other adaptations game and Hibernation/ Migration Matching Game with cards and game boards) * Assessments for each topic (hibernation, migration, and other adaptations) * Printables * Objectives for each lesson (what students will learn) as well as a "How to use these resources" for each topic
I created this activity to help my students think about animals in winter who hibernate and migrate. In making this resource, I tried to find realistic pictures from Pixabay to also help my students see real-world examples. I have the name under each picture to also guide and help students. Some animals are a specific kind of animal such as: Humpback Whale or Canadian Geese, others are more general such as: groundhog, or chipmunk. I figured something was better than nothing. And it really seemed to help my kiddos better relate to the idea of hibernation and migration. Just wanted to share in hopes you would find it useful too!!
This "Animals in Winter" unit is ideal for students in Kindergarten through Second Grade. The unit covers hibernation, migration, and animal adaptations in winter. Included are teacher notes, sorting activities, literacy components, pocket chart cards, and three separate student booklets. Each bo...
We travel so far is a wonderful non-fiction book all about the amazing migration that 25 different animals take. It is a recent favourite of ours
Ideas for a unit on winter animals: hibernation, migration, and more winter animal adaptations. Hands-on learning, centers, writing, and more
Science: 1.7b Animals Adapt to the Seasons: 5 pages that incorporate the following concepts: .Define hibernation, migration, body coverings .Some animals migrate .Some animals have adpated through body coverings .Many animals hibernate .Temperature, daylight and precipitation bring about weather changes that animals must adapt to
We have been leaning what Hibernation, Adaptation and Migration are. Here's a printable craft to remind little ones what animals do in Winter at a glance.
This week was our bear/hibernation theme. Lots of fun! If you have not read this book, you must! It is HILARIOUS! (Especially the ending... loved it! haha) Here are some of the nonfiction books we read this week to help us fill in our bear chart. We looked at these four types of bears: brown, black, polar, and panda. Here is the chart we created: When we talked about what bears ate, we did this fun little taste test/graphing activity that came from Rachelle over at What the Teacher Wants! Check out her bear unit here... super cute! I wish I had more time to do all of the activities. We tasted strawberry jam, tuna fish, and honey on crackers. We graphed our favourite bear food. Also included in Rachelle's unit, students coloured in their own graph and then answered questions about it. During our reading/writing time, we read the book "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". We compared it to the book "Growl!" and did a little T-chart about real vs. fantasy. The next day we read "The Three Snow Bears" and compared it with Goldilocks in a Venn Diagram. You can download the student version by clicking the picture below. We have been working on addition and just started talking about "Tens Partners". We created this rainbow anchor chart to help us remember them! In Rachelle's bear unit, she has this cute activity called "Bears in a Cave". One partner closes their eyes, the other partner uses bear counters (I used Teddy Graham crackers) and puts some in each circle. They write the total in the square at the end and then covers up one of the circles with a "cave" (paper cup or bowl). The other partner guesses how many bears are in the cave. You can use any number of bears. I had mine use all ten bears, so the sum always stayed 10. This was great practice for the "Tens Partners". When we started talking about hibernation, we read a book called "All About Hibernation". Then we created a large poster called "Where do animals go in the winter?". I got this idea from the very creative Amy over at Fun 4 Kids. See all of her winter animal ideas here! My students coloured the large background poster. Then they coloured the animals, cut them out with the labels, and glued them into the correct winter home. Then we added some cotton balls for snow! Super cute! If you would like a copy of the poster, click the pictures below. I print the background on white 11 x 17" paper. The animals/labels are on half of an 8.5 x 11". Amy also had a poem on her blog called "Winter Animals". It has some cute actions to go with it. We practiced the poem all week, then today we glued it into our poetry journals and illustrated it. Click above to download the poem. And last, but not least, we read the Bill Martin Jr. / Eric Carle books, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear", "Polar Bear, Polar Bear", and "Panda Bear, Panda Bear". Kids love the fun rhythm of these books. If you haven't checked out Mrs. Kacey @ Doodle Bugs Teaching, go there now! She has some amazing "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" centres and activities for FREE. Check here and here. I created an art lesson to go with these books. There is a simple pattern to use and you can create any of the four bears: brown, black, polar, or panda. Students use plastic combs (or a piece of cardboard) to create different paint techniques. Click on the picture below to download the full directions and patterns for free from TpT. These are the samples I created. I let the students choose any colour background. Here are my students working hard on their artwork. It was actually a pretty easy project to get all together. We did the painting one day and the assembly the next day. Here is the finally picture of them all together. (Our class is called 1T by the way, so the bulletin board makes sense....) They did such a good job! Although I don't know why a few of my bunnies thought that a blue marker was a good choice to use to draw the whole face.... hehe Have a great weekend, everybody!
The migration of animals and hibernation or animals in the winter are two popular science topics. These 8 resources for migration and hibernation will help primary teachers talk about vocabulary, experiment and identify animals that adapt for the winter.
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Introduce your children to the concepts of hibernation, migration and adaptation and which ones follow each of these survival techniques.
Animals in Winter have very unique behaviors and habits. Some hibernate, migrate or adapt. Take a look at the three kinds of adaptations.
The kids loved making our hibernating bears. We started by "painting" paper bag caves that were glued onto paper plates with a mixt...
Ideas for a unit on winter animals: hibernation, migration, and more winter animal adaptations. Hands-on learning, centers, writing, and more
Make a diorama of animals that hibernate in Winter! It is the perfect afternoon craft to make on out cold wintry afternoon.
