Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 5B | Animals of the Temperate Deciduous Forest Habitat 107
Where are the places that bears sleep? (trees or caves)- Now you try joining two words or phrases together using or.
- Tell your partner two things a squirrel can eat. (acorn, insects)
- Tell your partner two things a bear can eat. (fruit from shrubs,
insects)
Vocabulary Instructional Activity^5 minutes
Word Work: Hibernate- In the read-aloud you heard, “Bears hibernate during the
winter.” - Say the word hibernate with me three times.
- To hibernate means to sleep during the winter season. [Invite
students to make up a motion that shows hibernate.] - [Show images of different kinds of animals that hibernate.]
hibernates during the winter. - How do animals prepare to hibernate?
[Hint: Where will it sleep? How can it stay warm? How does it
not go hungry? Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide
and/or rephrase the students’ responses: “Animals prepare to
hibernate by.. .”] - What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
Use a Making Choices activity for follow-up. Directions: I will
describe an animal’s actions. If I describe an animal preparing
to hibernate or an animal that is hibernating, do the motion for
hibernate. If I describe an animal that is not preparing to hibernate
or is not hibernating, stand up and run in place (or wave your
hands in the air).
- The fi eld mouse runs around in the snow to fi nd some food. (not
hibernating) - The frog rests in a hole at the bottom of the pond to keep warm
during the winter months. (hibernating) - The bat sleeps in a cave during the winter and does not come
out until spring. (hibernating)