The World of Plants & Animals

Plants & Animals In Winter

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Plants

Plants are living things.

Plants need sun and warmth, air, water, and a place to grow (such as soil).

Plants grow in many different kinds of environments.

Animals

Some animals care for their young as they grow.
~ They provide food, protection from harm, shelter and warmth, and teach them skills for survival.
~ Mainly birds and mammals care for their young.

Animals of all ages have basic needs for food, shelter, and protection.

Animals have different body coverings and different ways of moving.
~ They can be covered with fur, feathers, scales, or smooth skin.
~ They can move by flying, crawling, swimming, climbing, walking, or slithering.

There are many different kinds of animals that grow and live in many different environments.

Plants and animals alike must adapt and change to their environments and the changing weather found in each.

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This particular Theme of Plants & Animals in our world is one of our big Science focuses.
We learn about different habitats and the plants and animals typically found there.
We also talk about the weather and locate some of these areas on the globe.

We learn about what plants and animals need to grow and survive, and we compare ourselves to them.

This is a fun Theme for the children because they have a lot to share about places they have visited and what they have learned for books and television.

We begin with Plants & Animals in the Polar regions - both the Artic & the Antarctic. We learn about adaptation and migration.
We also learn about Winter effects in the forests near to us. Living in the Northwest, we are close to this environment
and the impact it can have on our own communities.

Plants & Animals In Winter Projects Page

~ Life in the Polar Regions ~

Literature

Poems & Songs


My Best Book of Polar Animals ~ Christiane Gunzi	Polar Babies ~ Kristen McCurry	Animal Babies in Polar Lands ~ Editors of Kingfisher	Brrr!: A Book About Polar Animals ~ Melvin & Gilda Berger

Who Lives Where? Polar Animals ~ Deborah Hodge	Polar Animals ~ Nick Page	Seals ~ Emily Rose Townsend	North Pole, South Pole ~ Nancy Smiler Levinson

The Arctic

There Are No Polar Bears Down There
Trish Hart

also . . .


Here Is The Arctic Winter ~ Madeleine Dunphy	The Big Caribou Herd ~ Bruce Hiscock	Polar Bears ~ Gail Gibbons	A Polar Bear Journey ~ Debbie Miller

Little Polar Bear ~ Hans de Bear	Arctic Foxes ~ Emily Rose Townsend	Amazing Arctic Animals ~ Jackie Glassman	Tundra Discoveries ~ Ginger Wadsworth

In Arctic Waters ~ Laura Crawford	Arctic Tundra ~ Michael H. Forman	The Arctic Habitat ~ Molly Aloian	Arctic Tundra: Land With No Trees ~ Allan Fowler

The Antarctic


Antarctica ~ Helen Cowcher	Antarctica ~ Lucy Bowman	Antarctica ~ Allan Fowler	See How They Grow - Penguins ~ Mary Ling

Explore Antarctica ~ Bobbie Kalman	Why Is the South Pole So Cold?: A Book About Antarctica ~ Janeen R. Adil	Hooray For Antarctica! ~ April Pulley Sayre	Watching Penguins in Antarctica ~ Louise Spilsbury

365 Penguins ~ Jean-Luc Fromental	Penguin Chick ~ Betty Tatham	The Emperor's Egg ~ Martin Jenkins	The Antarctic Habitat ~ Molly Aloian

Arctic Animals

Polar bears
Look snowy white.
Arctic hares
Hop out of sight.

Sweet harp seals
Change as they grow.
Snowy owls fly
High and then low.

Do they all
Stay snug and warm,
In snow and ice
And winter storms?
~ Sue LaBella

The Penguin

I am a bird you know quite well,
All dressed in black and white.
And even though I do have wings
They're not designed for flight.
I waddle, waddle, waddle,
On my funny little feet.
Across the icy snow I go
To find a fishy treat!
~ Roxanne Williams

Little Polar Bear

Little Polar Bear
White as the snow
Sat on the ice
Near the cold water's flow.
I am hungry, he said
and made a wish
Then stuck in his paw
And pulled out a fish!

I Wish I Were a Walrus

I wish I were a Walrus
A waddling on the shore.
I'd say, "Move over, here I come!"
And bellow out a "ROAR!"
I wish I were a Walrus
A basking in the sun.
I'd flap my flippers, oh so loud
To show I'm number one!
I wish I were a Walrus
A strutting all my stuff.
If anybody picked on me
I'd show them my big tusks!
~ Cheryl's Sweethearts Child Care