The Mammal Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about mammals. This animated music video teaches that mammals breathe air with lungs, are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, give birth to live young and feed their babies milk. While watching the Mammal Song, students learn…
Using this Animal Song (Animated Music Video), your students learn about different types of animals and their sounds by watching this fun, catchy video.
The Amphibian Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about amphibians. This animated music video teaches that amphibians live on land and in water, start life with gills, go through metamorphosis and have moist skin without scales. While watching the Amphibian Song, students learn the…
These farm flash cards teach 18 farm animals, plants and things with a picture on the front and the word inside. Made for preschool to 1st grade, with a sorting practice page and answer key included.
The Bird Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about birds. This animated music video teaches that birds have beaks but no teeth, walk on two feet, lay eggs, are warm-blooded, have backbones and are covered with feathers. While watching the Bird Song, students learn…
The Fish Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about fish. This animated music video teaches that fish have fins and scales, swim in water, breathe with gills, have skeletons of cartilage or bone, and live in freshwater and saltwater. While watching the Fish Song,…
The Insect Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about insects. This animated music video teaches what makes an insect an insect: an exoskeleton, three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen), six legs and two antennae. While watching the Insect Song, students learn the traits…
The Reptile Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about reptiles. This animated music video teaches that reptiles breathe with lungs, have claws and scales, lay eggs on land, use the sun for heat and are cold-blooded. While watching the Reptile Song, students learn the…
Using these Insect Flash Cards, students improve their Insect vocabulary by having a complete set of insect names they can use in their writing and discussions.
Using this Animal Song (MP3), your students learn about different types of animals and their sounds in a catchy and fun way.
Using these Land Animal Flash Cards, students improve their Insect vocabulary by having a complete set of animal names they can use in their writing and discussions.
This boy and his dog puzzle lets Preschool to 1st grade children cut out and rebuild a 15-piece picture of a boy and his puppy, building problem solving and scissor skills.
Using thisAnimals Mini Pack, students learn about animals through ten fun worksheets and three activities.
This Amphibians and Reptiles Clip Art is a perfect addition to any bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you create to teach the amphibians and reptiles.
Kids finish farm animal patterns with picture cards in this farm sequencing activity for Preschool through 1st Grade, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included.
This farm puzzle activity lets Preschool to 1st grade children cut out and rebuild a 15-piece farm picture, building problem solving, scissor skills and farm animal words.
This farm or zoo matching activity has PreK-1st Grade children sort 12 animal picture cards onto a farm and zoo mat, with a practice worksheet and answer key included for easy checking.
This Farm Clip Art is a perfect addition to any bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you use in your classroom when you are learning about farms.
A cheerful bee-themed preschool worksheet for tracing, finding, and matching letters — with answer key.
Moo, quack, roar: let's learn animals!
Preschoolers are natural animal experts in training. They learn to name lots of animals and the sounds they make, and they start sorting them into simple groups: farm animals, zoo animals, pets, bugs. They notice what makes animals different, like fur, feathers, scales or six legs, and talk about where animals live and what they eat. The big moment comes when a child looks at a new animal and says, "It has feathers, so it is a bird!" That is real science thinking.
Young children learn about animals with their eyes, their ears and their whole bodies. These moves use all three.
Play one animal group song a day: mammals Monday, birds Tuesday, fish Wednesday. Afterward ask, "What did the song say birds have?" Kids remember the song's words long after a lesson would fade.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withMammal SongSongsOpen it →Hold up one flash card at a time and ask three questions: "What is it? Where does it live? What does it eat?" Then let kids act out how the animal moves. Pictures plus movement is a winning combination for preschoolers.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withLand Animal Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Spread farm and zoo animal pictures on the rug and let kids decide where each one belongs. Ask them to explain their choice. You will hear some wonderful reasons, and some delightful debates about whether a horse could live at the zoo!
Why it works: in a well-known study, a few short sessions of a simple number board game measurably boosted young children's number skills (Ramani and Siegler, 2008).
Try it withFarm or Zoo Matching ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Animals are pure fun for preschoolers. Here are a few favorites.
VideosPlay the animal song and have kids move like each animal they hear: stomp, slither, hop and fly around the room.
Open Animal Song (Animated Music Video) →
Flash CardsHide insect flash cards around the room. Kids find them and count the legs on each bug. Six every time!
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ActivitiesPut farm pictures in order to tell a story, like a day on the farm from sunrise to bedtime.
Open Farm Sequencing Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Mammal Song, Animal Song (Animated Music Video) and Amphibian Song.
Preschoolers usually learn animal names, sounds, where animals live (farm, zoo, ocean, home) and simple body features like fur, feathers and scales. The goal is noticing and describing, not memorizing facts.
Start with what they can see: "This one has feathers, so it is a bird." Sing a song for each group and sort toy animals or pictures together. Keep it to two groups at a time at first.
Kids are already curious about them, which makes animals perfect for building vocabulary, sorting, counting and early science thinking all at once.
Sort stuffed animals into pets and wild animals, play "guess my animal" by making the sound, or count the legs on animals in a picture book. Five minutes is plenty.
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