Animals

Books Read:
It's an Armadilla
Stelluluna
Noah's Ark by Jane Ray
Make Way For Duckling by Robert McCloska
Rainbow Fish to The Rescue

Activities Completed:
Story board of Noah's ark
Vocabulary lookup
Discuss animal poisons
Discussed Aristotle, Lennaeus, and Lamark
Studied phylum
Studied Darwin and added to timeline
Wrote paper on evolution
Watched Jumanji
Watched Jungle Book
Diagrammed a grasshopper's anatomy
Sorted animal cards into various categories
Completed worksheets and discussions on:

• animal communications
• animal moves
• animal covers
• animal weapons
• animal eating patterns
• animal regions
• bats
• bears
• animal homes

Looked under the microscope at animal fibers
Made a food chain model
Made a few animal booklets
Made an animal forest picture where student drew picture and cut and paste pictures of forest animals they found
Created a very colorful owl and bear masks
Explored Aristotle, Lennaeus, Lamark, and Charles Darwin and added them to the timeline.
Gave a test at the unit's end

Vocabulary:
bird
mammals
insects
reptiles
environment
feather
scale
nurse