This resource includes thematic lessons, activities, poems, songs and centers about nocturnal animals for your little learners.
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Week 9 Plans
This is a template for lesson plans during a nocturnal animals unit. Pick and choose what ideas and resources work for your learners.
Nocturnal Animals – Whole Group
These resources can be used during whole group instruction for a nocturnal theme. They include a poem, word cards, tracing page and table sign in sheets.
Night Animals Interactive Poem
Use this poem during a thematic lesson, whole group or a literacy center and have learners review animals that sleep during day.
Nocturnal Animals Thematic Plans
Use these plans as a guide for engaging nocturnal animals read alouds and activities in the classroom.
Day and Night
Read Forest Bright, Forest Night and complete the anchor chart using the definitions and examples of diurnal and nocturnal animals.
Diurnal and Nocturnal
Read Where are the Night Animals? and have learners match the definition and vocabulary cards in their booklet.
Nighttime Animals
Read Nighttime Animals and have learners paste and write about nighttime animals in their booklet.
Adaptation Game
Read Nightsong and have learners create a bat headband and bug shakers for a game about echolocation.
Scavenger Hunt
Read Flashlight and have learners search for nocturnal animals in the classroom using a flashlight.
Nighttime Sensory Charts
Explore night with the five senses. Complete the charts together and have learners draw and write about what they believe animals experience at night using their senses on the interactive page.
Night Predictable Chart Class Book
Use this resource to create a class book from the predictable chart created during the week.
Literacy Center | ABC Order
Have learners put the alphabet cards in ABC or alphabetical order.
Literacy Center | Build a Word
Have learners use the letter cards to create each sight word.
Literacy Center | Rhyming Write the Room
Have learners find the cards around the room and color the word that rhymes.
Math Center | Counting Bats
Have learners count the correct number of bats on each mat.
Math Center | Number Order
Have learners order the number cards by counting up and counting down on a pocket chart.
Math Center | Shape Write the Room
Have learners find the shape cards around the room and draw the shapes they find.
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