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Guinea Pigs and Friends Grade 3-5
EBB148
$14.99 CAD
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- Author : Whitear, Jane
You have bought the class a guinea pig and now they expect you to have all the answers on the new pet. With the 47 activities and teaching ideas will be a big help. Students will learn about the history of guinea pigs, other animals in their family and how to care for them as they improve their writing, language arts and math skills.
List of Center Titles and Skills Covered:
Cavy Creative Writing
l. Shape Poems
2. Fantasy Story Writing
3. Descriptive Story Writing
4. Acrostic Poetry
5. Cinquains
Professor Gin E. Pig's Science
l. Weighing, Measuring, Recording
2. Food Preferences in Class Pet
3. Maze Observations
Hurrah for Hamsters
l . Word Search
2. Crossword Puzzle
3. Syllabication
4. Scrambled Letters
5. Double Consonants
6. Suffixes
7. Cloze Exercises
8. Organizing Words to Form Sentences
9. Alphabetical Order
10. Words That Don't Belong
11. Hard and Soft "g,,
12. Rhyming Words
Desert Mouse Math
l. Whole Number Operations +, -, x, +
2. Problem Solving +, -
3. Problem Solving x, +
4. Reading Labels+,-, x, +
5. Reading Charts
6. Geometric Shapes
7. Tiling, Patterns
8. Graphing
Guinea Pig Research
1. Researching a Guinea Pig Relative
2. Organizing Facts
3. Nocturnal/Diurnal Animals
4. Mapping Skills
5. Surveying/Drawing Conclusions
Guinea Pig Printing/Writing
1. Copying Words
2. Labelling Pictures
3. Labelling a Diagram
Gerbil Art
l . Cotton Wool Art
2. Sponge Painting
3. Paper Mache
4. Mobile
5. Poster Making
Reading Activity Cards
1. A Guinea Pig History
2. A Closer Look at a Cavy
3. Caring for a Cavy
4. A Most Unusual pet
5. Meet the Relatives - Hamsters
6. Meet the Relatives - Gerbils