Unit+2+Animals+Live+Here

=Key Question: = Where do animals live? = = =Expanding Concepts: = = Web Resources: = [|National Geographic Amazing Animals:] excellent resource for animal information, easy reading, videos included [|The Electronic Zoo:] a large collection of sites related to animals, easy to navigate, includes many links to individual zoo sites [|Animal Podcasts:] enjoy listening and learning about animals, created by GFPS first grade students [|Brainpop Jr.] links to animal videos
 * What is an ocean environment?
 * Who lives in an orange grove?
 * Who lives in the grasslands?
 * Where does a bear hibernate?
 * What kind of home does a mouse need in winter?
 * Who lives in the garden?

=[|Reading A-Z:] = Baby Animals level A Pond Animals level A What lives Here level A Animal Coverings level B Where is Water? level B Animals Can Move level B Animal Coverings level B Winter Fun level B Country Places level C What is at the Zoo level C Where Animals Live level D City Animals level E Where is Cub? level F Hibernation level G

=[|Discovery Streaming]: = Homes for Living Things Animals Around Us Seahouse:The Nursery Dr.Dad's PH3: Episode Ten: Animal Architecture = IS Resources: = = Print Resources: = From [|hubbardscupboard] Sight word books In Winter Where Are We?

Picture Books:
To read week of __Bear Snores On__: __Bear Feels Sick__ by Karma Wilson. Children are able to make predictions on how this book will end by making the connection with __Bear Snores On__. __Bear's New Friend__ by Karma Wilson __The Bears in the Bed and the Great Big Storm__ by Paul Bright illustrated by Jane Chapman. Children are able to tell who the illustrator is in this book from reading the other books. They also can use the amazing word "Blustery" when they see the illustrations. __Time to Sleep__ by Denise Fleming. Another story that tells where animals sleep during the winter months. Ask children to identify the text-to-text connectinos they make to //Bear Snores On// as you read.

= Library Media Collections: = = Technology Activities: = Using the Kidpix program, children can draw an animal of choice from the book (A Bed for the Winter) and where they live. Using Kidspiration children can match mother animals to thier babies.


=Inquiry Project: Animal Puppet Show= Children design animal puppets using a variety of materials. Grouped by the habitats of their animals, children write and perform a puppet show. (Language Arts Standard 1 Students engage in the research process)

This process includes:
 * Formulating questions
 * Gather and organize information
 * Synthesis your findings
 * Publish and present your findings

[|GFPS Research Investigation Technology Integration Resources]