Wild About Animals: Week 2 & 3: Animal Habitats

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Reading List (Overview):

I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World (Jenkins)

Animal Habitats (Lundgren)
The ABC's of Habitats (Kalman)

Step Inside!  A Look at Animal Homes (Ham)

Animals at Home (Easy Reader) (Lock)

The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats (Relf & Stevenson)

   


(Don't forget to complete a Narration Page or two.)

Copywork:

A habitat is a place that has everything an animal needs to survive.
(See First Animal Encyclopedia, pg. 71)

Habitats Book:

For each habitat studied below, color and cut out the animal pictures from the Wild About Animals Packet. Draw some plants or other items found in their habitat on a piece of construction paper. Then glue the animals onto the paper however you wish to make a fun scene.

Day 1: Pond/ Wetland Habitat

Reading List:

Pond Animals (Galko, Francine)
In the Small, Small Pond (Fleming, Denise)
Life in the Pond (Hammersmith, Craig)
What Lives at the Pond? (Hutchinson, Caroline)
One Small Square: Pond (Silver, Donald)

  

Explore the Animals:

(pages from Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia)
Beaver (pg. 21)
Dragonfly (pg. 51)
Duck (pg. 52)
Fish (pg. 58)
Frog (pg. 64)
Turtle (pg. 147)

Day 2: Jungle/ Rainforest Habitat

Reading List:

In the Rainforest (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) (Duke, Kate)
The Rainforest Grew All Around (Mitchell, Susan K.)
A Rainforest Habitat (Aloian, Molly)
Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests (Gibbons, Gail)
One Small Square: Tropical Rain Forest (Silver, Donald)
If I Ran the Rain Forest (Worth, Bonnie)
Sounds of the Wild: Jungle (Pledger, Maurice)

  

Explore the Animals:

Anaconda (pg. 10)
Chameleon (pg. 33)
Chimpanzee (pg. 36)
Parrot (pg. 104)
Sloth (pg. 135)
Toucan (pg. 146)

Day 3: Desert Habitat

Reading List

Who Lives Here? Desert Animals (Hodge, Deborah)
A Desert Habitat (Macaulay, Kelley)
One Small Square: Cactus Desert (Silver, Donald)
Desert Animals (Gordon, Sharon)
The Desert (Baker, Alan)
Watching Desert Wildlife (Arnold, Caroline)
Cactus Hotel (Guiberson, Brenda)



  
  

Explore the Animals:

Armadillo (pg. 15)

Camel (pg. 28)

Fennec Fox (pg. 63)

Lizard (pg. 87)

Jack Rabbit (pg. 115)

Rattlesnake (pg. 118)

Day 4: Grasslands/ Safari Habitat

Reading List:

Here is the African Savanna (Dunphy, Madeleine)
Safari, So Good: All About African Wildlife (Worth, Bonnie)
One Small Square: African Savanna (Silver, Donald)
Animal Babies in Grasslands (Kingfisher)
The Swift Gazelle Can Run Quite Well: Grassland Animals (Oblinger, Mark)
Explore the Grasslands (Jackson, Kay)


    

Explore the Animals:

Antelope (pg. 13)

Bison (pg. 25)

Elephant (pg. 55)

Giraffe (pg. 65)

Lion (pg. 86)

Meerkat (pg. 91)
Zebra (pg. 155)

Day 5: Forest/ Woodlands Habitat

Reading List:

Forest Animals (Animals in their Habitat) (Galko, Francine)
One Small Square: Woods (Silver, Donald)
Over in the Forest: Come and Take a Peek (Berkes, Marianne)
Sounds of the Wild: Forest (Pledger, Maurice)
A Forest Habitat (Kalman, Bobbie)

   

Explore the Animals:

Deer (pg. 45)
Hedgehog (pg. 72)

Owl (pg. 102)

Raccoon (pg. 116)
Skunk (pg. 134)
Squirrel (pg. 139)

Day 6: Polar Lands

Reading List:

The Arctic Habitat (Aloian, Molly)
Here is the Arctic Winter (Dunphy, Madeleine)
Over in the Arctic: Where the Cold Winds Blow (Berkes, Marianne)
Who Lives Here? Polar Animals (Hodge, Deborah)
Scholastic Reader Level 1: Polar Animals (Cooper, Wade)
The Magic School Bus Presents: Polar Animals (O'Brien, Cynthia)

  

Explore the Animals:

Penguin (pg. 107)
Polar Bear (pg. 111)
Reindeer (pg. 120)
Walrus (pg. 149)
Wolf (pg. 152)

*Note: The animals in each habitat aren't necessarily from the same country or even continent. I have done my best to include all different types of animals, but it may be worth pointing out to your student that just because the animals have the same type of "habitat" doesn't necessarily mean they live together.