Hello everyone! Mavi is still on a school break this week so we'll be busy doing lots of "home" school activities. Thank goodness the weather is getting warmer, Mavi gets to play in the yard, digging dirt and "fossils" LOL.
Speaking of which, he's currently obsessed with dinosaurs and with animals in general. So while he's at it, I took the chance of introducing him to the Animal Kingdom. I released this file last week so if you want to check it out, just click the image below for the link.
To start with, here's my presentation of the chart. In my printable file, there are 8 invertebrate animals and I used common animals so kids learning them can easily identify the specific group. The presentation of the chart to Mavi went smoothly. He was really surprised that there are animals that doesn't have a backbone.
As we went along with the presentation, I made him the definition or fact cards that goes along with each of the animal. I made sure that the information I wrote in those cards were interesting enough for a 5 year old :) We will further discuss Mollusks and Arthropods in the next few weeks for an additional knowledge of their subclass (group types).
He learned that some animals can be both a boy and a girl! And look, we added some animal figures as well and that includes jelly worms!
When we reached the Chordates (Vertebrates) he got really excited as this was the part that he's familiar with.
He was so excited because he wanted to put his animal figures under each subclass of the Vertebrate animals LOL.
And yes... that includes the dinosaurs!
So classifying animals on what subclass (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds and fish) they belong to is another activity that we delve into. And that would be on my next post... so stay tuned!
PS. I was a little bit hesitant to introduce this subject to Mavi. But I was surprised that he was attentive all throughout our lesson. He even patiently read all the description cards for me. I am happy that he was able to grasp the concept immediately, that not all animals are the same, that they are grouped so we can easily identify their features and understand their characteristics and uniqueness.
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This is perfect for my autistic 19-year old. Thank you.
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