Activities  

  The TLC Book Animals in Winter  This book has several pages to make on different animal             

                   Lexy's beaver    Beavers prepare for the winter.

  Turtles hibernate for the winter.

Gwendolyn's bear hibernates for the winter.

  Raccoon's adapt for the winter.

  Butterflies  fly to warmer places.

  We make a hibernation lift the flap book.  This activity comes from Carson-Dellosa  CD-0036

  Help the Animals Hibernate is an activity from Scholastic News .  The children cut out animal pictures to glue on worksheet.

  We do the poem  "Are You Sleeping?"  I divide the class into groups and give each group a section from the poem.  They investigate their animal and write down facts about it.  The first section of the poem...

         Are you sleeping, are you sleeping, Little Bear, Little Bear?  Snow is gently falling, Chilly winds are calling, "Winter's here.  Winter's here."  The other verses have turtle, bat, squirrel, frog and snake.

    Do a KWL chart about Animals in winter.

    A Venn Diagram about "How Animals Get Ready for Winter and How people get ready for Winter"

    Feed and observe winter animals.  There are several different types of feeders to make.  You can cut a plastic milk jug and add seed.  you can take a pine cone and spread peanut butter and seeds and hang from a tree.  the children can observe the birds eating.

    Divide the class into groups and write  the following topics on the board. Then have the children make up a skit about the topics. 

  1.  One year old cub cannot fall asleep

  2.  A groundhog doesn't want to wake up in the spring.

  3.  A fawn does all sorts of things to get ready to sleep and he doesn't hibernate.

  4.  Every time a turtle digs a hole under the pond a frog takes it.

    Scholastic has a lesson on line called Find the Animals.  Run off the worksheet and have children graph the animals.

    A take home project at the end of the unit would be to design a diorama about an animal that hibernates, migrates, or adapts.