Animals and Offspring

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Tell students that animals take care of their babies just like parents or guardians take care of their children.
• Show students images of a duck and duckling, a chicken and a chick, a cow and a calf, and a whale and its calf.
• Pair the images together.
• Read Animal Babies by Eric Carle.
• Direct the students to imitate the sounds that the animals make.

Guided Practice

• Attach the images of the animals to the whiteboard randomly with magnets.
• Ask a student to come up and find a matching pair.
• Allow each student to have a turn.

Independent working time

• Give each student a Baby Animals Match-Up worksheet and a pencil.
• Read the instructions to the students.
• Give the students time to complete the worksheet.
• Collect the worksheets to grade.