Time the students to see how quickly they can match up without talking. Students sit down when they find all the members of their animal family with similar physical features. Students stand up, put a hand up, and pair up to compare pictures with another student. To play, pass out one card to each student. You will need one set of parent cards and enough copies of baby animal cards so that the number of total cards equals the number of students playing the game. 7-8), or Scholastic News: Bath Time for Baby Additional Research can be found on EBSCO: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on Utah's Online Library. Research mother and baby animal patterns. Go to GALE IN CONTEXT ELEMENTARY (search Animals, Animal-Related Subjects, Animal Behavior.) Begin to construct an explanation of patterns in the behavior of parents and offspring which helps offspring to survive by reading Animal Behavior, or Lions. Chimpanzees, Gazelles, Hippopotamus, Giraffes, Koalas, Ducks, and Horses.ĭeepen your understanding of physical feature patterns in mother and baby animals by reading Are you My Mother? Baby Animals Do Not Always Look Exactly Like Their Parents found on EBSCO: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on Utah's Online Library.
Check it out on Amazon here! Teachers and parents alike are raving about how much they like the over 170 simple educational activities included in this book. Need more simple learning activities for preschool?Ĭheck out Everyday Preschool. Here are the free printable farm cards one more time –> download here. If you are visiting with a child who is doing this and want to narrate try phrases such as ” When you were a baby were you very little?” If there is no response maybe try something like” That chick is much smaller than the chicken.” I tend to open with things like this and then just follow where the conversation leads after that.įor older children, you can put more cards out to match up. Pop the cards in one container and the animal figurines in the other and place a few cards on the tray as an invitation. I’ll be laminating mine at school tomorrow.
This resource also comes with an answer sheet so you can easily check whether your children have completed the task successfully. An example of these include: Turtle - Hatchling. If you have a straight cutter use it, if you plan to use this farm matching activity in a classroom I’d laminate the cards. Our Mother and Baby Animals Matching Cards consist of twenty different animals that your class then has to match with the correct baby. You will need to print out the Farm Babies Matching Cards ( click here for the pdf), scissors, some farm babies figurines like these from Safari, a few containers and a tray. It would also work wonderfully as a fun activity to do at home on a rainy weekend or during a school holiday. It would be perfect for younger children to do as part of an activity all about common animals. From basic phonemic awareness that a word like cow starts with c which makes a /k/ sound to supporting spelling for children who are on the cusp of independent writing. This fantastic baby farm animals matching activity gets children to match up pictures of mothers with their young. The names of the animals are on the cards for a few reasons, it teaches children to associate print with spoken words when teachers point and use the words, but it also supports children at different levels of development. The goal of an activity like this farm matching activity is not just to match up the animals, it is to look at how an animal grows and changes, using the figurines allow the children to manipulate and examine the animal more closely than simply using two photos, and children can compare which animals change a lot and those that look similar from the time they are babies.