Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 203

Dear Family Member,

Over the next several days, your child will be learning about many different types of

habitats, including the arctic habitat and desert habitat. Your child will learn that a habitat

provides food, water, and shelter for plants and animals.

Below are some suggestions for activities that you may do at home to help your child

continue to enjoy learning about animals and their habitats.

1. Backyard/Neighborhood Habitat

Go outdoors with your child to observe the living things around you. Help your child

to identify an area, or habitat, that provides animals (or insects) food, water, and shelter.

Have your child draw a picture of that backyard/neighborhood habitat on the activity

sheet. Help your child write where the habitat is located and what can be found in that

habitat.

2. Name that Habitat

Your child will learn about the arctic, desert, savanna (grassland), and forest habitats

in the fi rst half of this domain. Name a few items associated with one of the hibitats

(below and on the next page), and see if your child can name that habitat.

Arctic: ice, freezing, wolverine, caribou (reindeer), arctic

fox, arctic hare, walrus, seal, polar bear

Desert: dry, hot, sand, cactus, Gila woodpecker, elf owl,

cottontail rabbit, coyote

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