HIBERNATION Worksheets Activity Preschool Pre K Kindergarten 1st GradeHere's a fun set of 3 simple cut and paste worksheets for young learners to share what they know about hibernation! Enjoy these Hibernation Worksheets for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten❤ CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW GREEN APPLE LESSO...
Practice scissor skills with this simple winter animal or hibernation craft for toddlers and preschoolers to make air-drying clay hedgehogs.
FREE worksheet to sort between animals who hibernate and migrate. Great science cut and paste activity for kindergarten and preschool.
Pack your classroom with hands-on activities all about what animals do in the winter. I have rounded up my favorite hibernation centers and activities.
These hibernation activities for preschoolers are the perfect learning through play activities. They're also great for kindergarteners.
This hibernation unit study is full of fun hibernation crafts and activities for kids, including books about hibernation, a hibernation facts video, and a hibernating animals sorting activity!
Year 2 Week #5 Hibernation and more Today we did a project based on our science memory work. Everyone came in their PJ's to hibernate! We made a diorama of how animals adapt to environmental changes - which in our case was the start of winter. When the kids came in, they first stopped by the gym and "hibernated" inside the "cave" that we had made with some gym mats and blankets! We later used the cave to do our review game. To start our day we got our lapbooks out and sang, wrote, flipped and drew our way through Week#5. The next thing we did was begin our project. I had picked out various animals and the definitions we were learning, to place in our diorama. I provided pre drawn and cut construction paper shapes of a tree, log, cave, burrows and rocks to place the animals around. I also used cardboard that I cut into strips. One strip was used for giving the cave a 3D look by bending it around the construction paper cave and gluing it in place. Another strip was folded in half and the construction paper log was glued to that strip to create a hinged opening so you could see what would hibernate inside of the log. There were pizza boxes for each child to do their project on, that I got from a local vendor for free. I set out paint, tissue paper, foam, hot glue, markers, regular glue, sequins, pipe cleaners, puff paint, construction paper and cotton balls. The kids were given a sample of what they were going to be doing that I had laid out on my pizza box for Sarah. However, there was room for lots of imagination. To begin with, the Moms cut out their pictures of animals while the kids started on painting the background of their diorama. We used blues and greens to designate sky, pond and grass. Briefly I tied in perspective art by describing the horizon line between the two elements they were working on (grass/sky). The next thing they did was decide where they would place their various elements of tree, log, cave and rocks. Then they began pasting and hot gluing their items into place. The kids worked their imaginations as they put finishing touches and embellished their project. Such as; drawing their tunnels to their burrows, adding flowers to their grass, placing a sun (or some did a moon). To finish it off, I mixed up the puff paint! A favorite around Wonderful Wednesdays! The kids delved in, mixing and then adding their touches of clouds and snow to their masterpieces! I couldn't resist making "porridge" for the day's snack! After all doesn't hibernating bears bring to mind Goldilocks and the Three Bears??? It seemed these little bears thought this porridge was just right! Animals used in the diorama: Hibernating animals: A bear that went inside our cave, bats that hung from inside the cave, burrow animals used were snakes and squirrels, pond animals were turtle and frogs, animals in the log were lizard and spider and a bumblebee for underground below the tree. Migrating animals: Geese flying south, Butterflies flying to Mexico! Adapting animal: Ermine - we used camouflage as our means of adaptation in winter weather. He was placed near the rocks and pictures of him during the summer when his coat is brown and winter when it changes to white were used.
It is snowing & cold here today which is making us want to stay in and hibernate so I thought I would post some favorite hibernation classroom activities, games, books, songs, and crafts. Pajama Day A great way to culminate your unit on hibernation is to have a Pajama Day! Children (and teachers) wear their […]
The kids loved making our hibernating bears. We started by "painting" paper bag caves that were glued onto paper plates with a mixt...
Make a diorama of animals that hibernate in Winter! It is the perfect afternoon craft to make on out cold wintry afternoon.
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After setting up a big bear cave made out of cardboard, we invited our toddlers to explore how bears sleep during the winter.
Sitting on the couch at home, I snuggled into the possibility of my next unit – Winter and the story “The Mitten.” Here are a few ideas I found: Hibernation Art Piece I love this! I think the kinders would adore doing this! Sorting Winter Animals This is a great science center idea. Winter Play […]
I've had lots of requests to share more about how I foster inquiry in our classroom, so I'm here to share some information about our current inquiry, animals in winter! We started with inquiry brainstorm time. We do these when we wrap up our last inquiry and we are looking for new topics to investigate. I ask the students what they are wondering about/want to learn about and they can tell me anything they want. I usually record it by typing it into a word document and I have it projected on to the screen so the kids can watch and follow along as their question get's typed up into the list. I can also type must faster than I can write on chart paper so it's less waiting for the kids. After they kids give me all of their questions I go back during my prep or after school and group them into similar categories. Then I pick the category that generated the most interest. This month we had a lot of kids asking where animals go when it's cold (or in their words "freezing") outside. In particular they were wondering about birds, turtles, worms, butterflies, hyenas, coyotes and foxes. So I decided to plan some lessons around hibernation, migration and weather/climate in various habitats. First I started with hibernation. On the first day we read the book "Why Do Animals Hibernate?" by David Martin. This is a great simple book that explains what hibernate means, why animals hibernate, which animals hibernate and where they hibernate. At the teacher table I had one student come and find the page where hibernation was defined and copy the sentence to add to our inquiry board. This works on reading to find important information in non-fiction texts. You can see it on the bulletin board picture at the bottom of the blog post. For centre time, I put together this little den building centre! The prompt was "Can you build a den for the bears to hibernate in?" As they were building we talked about what would make a good den (e.g. has a covering at the top so the snow doesn't get in, has a small hole at the front of the den so the bear can get in and out but not too big so that we can minimize the cold air coming in etc.) There prompts really helped the kids think about their design for the dens! They loved this building challenge! On the second day, we read the book "Sleep Black Bear, Sleep" by Jane Yolen to learn more about which animals hibernate. Then we wrote down the animals that hibernate on chart paper. During centre time students who wanted to came to the teacher table and used the chart we co-created whole group to write about animals that hibernate. You can see some of their writing on the bulletin board near the bottom of this post. Next morning, we had a hibernating bear craft available at centre time. I saw this idea on Primary Press and knew we had to do it too. My kids love craft activities so I just put some tracers (always optional) and black, brown and beige construction paper and let them get to work! I didn't provide any instructions, just a sample for them to look at. Some students followed my sample, some didn't and I think they all turned out great :) I also encouraged them to either trace the sentence "Bears hibernate in the winter" or use the sheet with blank lines to write their own hibernation sentence. One of my girls wrote her own sentence "The baby bear is hibernating." (Bottom left on the bulletin board photo near the bottom of this post). If you can use the hibernation writing strip or the blank writing strip, you can download it for free by clicking here or on the image below: Here's one that one of my kiddos made. He said he made a mama bear sleeping in a den with her two baby bears! I love that he added the cubs on his own! And here is the beginning of our animals in winter inquiry board! The inqury writing papers and mini checklists can be found in my "Inquiry Writing Templates for Kindergarten" pack on TPT. You can click here or on the image below if you are interested! Here is a photo of our bookshelf with all of our hibernation books! We didn't read them all but the two I read to them that were mentioned in this post are pictured. Students are welcome to read these during centre time. I pulled from my own collection, my school librarian pulled some for me (love her) and I got some from my local public library. We've moved on to migration and we'll probably be working on learning about migration for one more week. I'll be posting about migration once we wrap up as part 2 of this post! - Yukari SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
10+ Winter and hibernating animal crafts and activities to do with toddlers and preschoolers. Low prep, fun and simple.
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.
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.
