Day 1:
Watch Wild Kratts episode - Season 1 Episode 20 - "The Blue and the Gray" (**The kids could color one of these while they watch or save them for later in the week.)
Ask kids to narrate the episode for you - summarize it in 2 to 3 sentences and copy their answers onto this notebooking page. (Use one of these free printable pages.) If they are old enough to write then you can let them write it.
Start on your Draw Write Now Chipmunk drawing. You can use 1+1+1=1 printables that go along with these books if you would like. Click here and scroll down to Book 6 and click on it. You can print page 4 or 5 if you want practice copywork too. You could also print this Wild Kratts Activity page (from Different Dog Blog) to do your drawing on and write vocab words too.
Lapbook - start on a lapbook if you would like to. There are free ones from Homeschool Share - a chipmunk or squirrel.
Project Squirrel **Become a Citizen Scientists and each day observe squirrels and click on this link to submit what you have observed.
Day 2:
Talk about yesterday's Wild Kratt episode. Read one of the books from the book list below.
Talk about where the chipmunk's habitat is. Look up squirrels in The Kingfishers First Animal Picture Atlas and talk about their habitats.
Work on your chipmunk drawing. Finish it up or color it in. Work on drawing the background (habitat) where the chipmunk lives.
Work more on your lapbook if you choose.
Project Squirrel **Become a Citizen Scientists and each day observe squirrels and click on this link to submit what you have observed.
Day 3:
Read another book from the list below.
Work on or finish up your drawing and put it in your Wild Kratts Creature Notebook.
Use The Kingfishers First Animal Picture Atlas to talk about what countries chipmunks and squirrels live in and point to them on a map. Print off a world map and circle or color in spots where the animals live. Put that in your Wild Kratts Creature Notebook as well.
Project Squirrel **Become a Citizen Scientists and each day observe squirrels and click on this link to submit what you have observed.
Day 4:
Read another book from the list below.
Finish up your drawing (if it isn't done). Finish up your lapbook (if it isn't done).
Project Squirrel **Become a Citizen Scientists and each day observe squirrels and click on this link to submit what you have observed.
Print Creature Power (31) and put it in your book. *optional
**If you want to be really ambitious you could prepare some of these activities ahead of time for your smaller ones.
You can also make these Wild Kratts action figures for your younger ones. Here is the link for the printables.
Here are more printables you can use.
Book list:
Main texts:
The Kingfisher First Animal Picture Atlas
Draw Write Now Book 6 - Animals & Habitats by Marie Hablitzel and Kim Stitzer
For Squirrels -
Fun with Nature by Mel Boring
Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert
Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
Merle the High Flying Squirrel by Bill Peet
A Squirrel's Tale by Richard Fowler
Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo: Lessons in Living from Five Frisky Red
Squirrels
Busy, Busy Squirrels by Colleen Stanley Bare
Hello, Squirrels! Scampering through the Seasons by Linda Glaser
For Chipmunks -
Non-fiction
Young Naturalist’s Field Guides:Rabbits, Squirrels, and Chipmunks by Mel Boring
Squirrels and Chipmunks by Allan Fowler (Rookie Read About Science)
Chipmunk Family by Lois Brunner Bastian
Fiction
Chipmunk Song by Joanne Ryder
Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane by Victoria Sherrow
Chattering Chipmunks by Janet Piehl
Thimbleberry Stories by Cynthia Rylant
Free Squirrel books:
Amazon – Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (Kindle Edition)
Amazon – Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (Kindle Edition)
Amazon – The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (Kindle Edition)
*Free Book list is from here
*Book lists are from lapbook sources above
You could also check out the Wild Kratts Math App for more fun with Wild Kratts.
No comments:
Post a Comment
I love comments!