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/Interactive modeling

• 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.

• Enrichment: Give students a blank sheet of paper, and instruct them to draw as many animal baby pairs as they can remember.
• Support: Have students identify baby pairs in Animal Babies and verbally describe them.

• Grade the independent worksheets, ensuring that your students are matching parent animals to their babies accurately.

• Ask students to identify the the mother of a chick, a kitten, a puppy, a calf, and a bunny.
• Take responses by raised hands.