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Dig Wait Listen
English/Language Arts Standards
Kindergarten
K.1.1 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
K.1.2 Follow words from left to right and from top to bottom on the printed page.
K.1.3 Understand that printed materials provide information. Continue reading “Standards for Dig, Wait, Listen: a Desert Toad’s Tale”
Let’s learn about life cycles. How does a toad survive in the desert? Let’s find out.
Another animal lays eggs in sand, too-not in the desert, but on a beach. The mother animal weighs as much as a refrigerator full of food. Can you guess the animal?
Sea turtle mothers lay their eggs and leave them. The hatchlings must fend for themselves. But another kind of creature guards its eggs and the hatchlings.
Another has to begin the year by finding a home and building a colony.
And here is an animal family with a parent who takes protecting the young very seriously!
Honk, Honk, Goose
After reading the book, students can learn observation skills by going out and looking for shadows and experimenting as the kids do in the book. Why are shadows hard to see when the sky is cloudy?
After reading some of these books, students can listen carefully, and write down the sounds they hear in their environment. Have older students use stopwatches and write down what they hear at each 30 second mark. Cars? Planes? Pencils? Voices? Scientists use these kinds of observations, called data, in their studies. Are certain sounds heard more often than others?
