Explore Animals and Their Worlds with Young Learners
Animals for Pre-K/K - #AW4 - $435 Value for $365
Also Available:
Combined Program - #AW5 - $565 Value for $465
From the first moment your beginning student opens these books, they will be captivated by the stories and engrossed in the superb illustrations. Activities are an important part of the studies that capture the interest of young students, but are still brimming with information that will satisfy the curiosity of all ages!
Meet animals who live in a variety of landscapes, from woodlands to the arctic, and even in the desert sand. Meet amazing animals who are perfectly suited for survival in their habitat, and details about each ecological system that surrounds them.
Younger students will benefit from a set designed to support early learning, fine motor development and alphabet skills. The adventure reading will thrill even your youngest student as they tiptoe into the forest to watch a newborn fawn take its first steps. You’ll spend time tracking wolves, caring for a young coyote, or keeping track of a crowd of penguins.
Hands-on activities and learning opportunities are laced throughout the program. Your instructor’s guide has oodles of ideas, but in addition, many of your books have ideas such as making a paper elephant trunk or watching ants eat sugar.Things to Love about Animals and Their Worlds:
Young Learners are Captivated by Key Resources
Animals and Their Worlds has magnificent resources that truly captivate students. Pictures in the Animal Encyclopedia are breath-taking, allowing you to go up-close and inside the lives of mammals, birds, insects and more. Meanwhile the “One Small Square” series engrosses students (and parents!) as they discover everything that is going on in a small square of the environment -- on the ground, among the plant life -- even underground and in the tops of trees!
Such Great Nature Notebooking and Journaling Opportunities
Students create a full-color “Make-Your-Own” Animal Notebook that has weekly opportunities to write or draw about a highlighted animal. Full-color pages are fun and motivate students to do their best work. Younger students can draw their responses, or even add pictures if they’d like to expand their notebook. Meanwhile, young students will find plenty of nature notebooking in the resource, "Burrows, Beehives & Beds," in which they will fill out illustrated pages with observations about the environment, weather, habitats, animal attributes and more!
You Can Add the Nature Investigation Kit!
This kit gives young learners the hard-to-find supplies they need to track down all sorts of findings in the great outdoors. Includes tools like a top quality magnifying glass, a jumbo real owl pellet kit, binoculars, a large clear four-inch lidded jar for collecting specimens, an indoor/outdoor thermometer and much more.
There’s a Set to Fit Your Family
This Pre-K/K Program has targeted learning activities for young students. Each week the same letter is reinforced that is introduced in the coordinating language arts program, “Basic Phonics.” Plus, a drawing program increases fine motor skills, while another book practices alphabetical order. If you have an older student as well, we have a combined set that allows you to school both your students with this set. Details are below.
Highlights of Your Animal Guidebook
AW-102 - $70 - Free with Package Purchase
Click here to see a sample of this program guide.
- Parent helps that are practical and help you “learn together” with your student.
- 36-week schedule laid out so clearly, you’ll “open and go” everyday.
- Weekly grid reduces your paperwork and is easy to follow, with clear directions and notes.
- Narration ideas in the front of the guide help you prompt your student throughout the year.
- Lists of common supplies for activities that will help you plan your year.
- Click here to see a sample of the Animals Pre-K/K Guide.
Studying the Habitats
Stop in at habitats around the world and discover the plants, animals and insects that call them home. Two sets of books are highlights in this program: the "One Small Square" series and the "Take a Walk" books.
The "One Small Square" Series approaches habitat and animal study within "one small sqaure" of each habitat. Beautiful drawings make it easy for young children to become a part of each landscape with its dangers, wonders and curious creatures. In intricate detail, the author and illustrator highlight natural processes going on in the environment, whether it be how leaf stems release from trees or how a worm helps to recycle soil. In each volume, simple activities reinforce student comprehension.
Meanwhile, the "Take a Walk" books show students how to experience local habitats firsthand and offer notebooking and other fun activities that help students learn! Wonderful pictures of the creatures that live in each habitat are featured throughout.
EXPLORE THE WOODS
Look closely at the life that fills the woods around you. Study leaves, bark, soil, and changing seasons.
One Small Square: Woods | AW-401 | $9
Take a Tree Walk | AW-402 | $10
EXPLORE THE SWAMP
What about peat? Study how this feature of swamp life supports plants and wildlife.
One Small Square: Swamp | AW-411 | $9
Take a Wetlands Walk | AW-412 | $10
EXPLORE THE SAVANNAH
See the rains and droughts on a savannah. Study grass growth, night hunters, and seasonal migration. Meet predators, their prey and the scavengers who try to steal it away!
One Small Square: African Savannah | AW-421 | $11
Born Free | AW-422 | $15
EXPLORE THE ARCTIC TUNDRA
Discover the short day cycle and learn how arctic animals prepare for harsh winters, who hibernates, and how they track down food. You'll find out about permafrost, the tilt of the sun in arctic areas and more!
One Small Square: Arctic Tundra | AW-431 | $9
Take a Winter Nature Walk | AW-432 | $10
EXPLORE THE CACTUS DESERT
Meet the different animals that thrive in the harsh environment of the desert. Learn about sparse rainfall, cloud cover, amazing cactus plants and dangerous animals that make their living in this dry habitat.
One Small Square: Cactus Desert | AW-441 | $9
Take a Cloud Walk | AW-442 | FREE DOWNLOAD
EXPLORE THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST
Learn about the species that inhabit the three "zones" of a rainforest -- the floor, the understory and the canopy. Discover amazing butterflies and bugs, tropical birds and strange plants that live in this forest.
One Small Square: Tropical Rainforest | AW-451 | $9
Take a Walk with Butterflies and Dragonflies | AW-452 | $10
EXPLORE THE CORAL REEF & BEACHES
Go exploring underwater to study colonies of coral, night life in the seas, and fish that glow in the dark! You'll also learn about the zones near a beach and what kinds of creatures you can find there.
One Small Square: Coral Reef | AW-461 | $9
Take a Beach Walk | AW-462 | $10Resources Used All Year Long
"Make-Your-Own" Animal Book | AW-151 | $15
Pages have illustrations of 36 different animals or animal groups, ready to fill in with what students have learned. Gives weekly opportunities to write or draw about a highlighted animal. Full-color pages are fun and motivate students to do their best work. Younger students can draw their responses, as special visual “buttons” are designed so they repeat on every page, allowing even non-readers to learn what questions they are answering quickly and work independently on their pages. (With these same sheets, older students can write and do guided research with a parent.)
DK Animal Encyclopedia | AW-201 | $22
Beautiful photographs accentuate this 376-page resource. The animal world comes to life as you’ll see a snake constricting its prey, stag beetles fighting, or a frog leaping through the air. Your student will get to know animals and their habitats and get answers to questions like, “Why don’t snakes shut their eyes?” or “What’s inside a camel’s hump?” Parents using this resource with PreK and K students should expect to summarize some material and use the book as a picture and discussion book at times. This book will benefit your family as a resource for years.
Animal Height Chart | AW-202 | $15
A color chart that is between 8-13 feet tall (depending on how much you want to mount), and is beautifully colored. Included animal squares can be pasted on to show the height of the different animals your student studies this year.
Adventure Reading For The Family
Ereth’s Birthday | AW-301 | $ 6
Ereth the porcupine makes a promise to a dying fox -- to care for her three kits. Can he keep his promise?
Lost in the Woods | AW-302 | $20
A beautiful keepsake story about a fawn who might be lost and alone in the forest.
Christopher Mouse: Tale of a Small Traveler | AW-303 | $ 7
Follow everyday incidents in the life of a mouse as he encounters a dangerous cat, a nefarious boy, and a young taxidermist.
Henry Huggins | AW-304 | $ 7
Nothing ever happens to Henry Huggins. Nothing, that is, until a stray dog named Ribsy comes into his life. Pretty soon, Henry and Ribsy are wreaking havoc all over the city.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins | AW-305 | $ 8
What to do with 12 penguins? Put them on stage!
Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary | AW-306 | $ 9
Follow the lives of three wolf pups as the seasons change.
One Day in the Desert | AW-307 | $ 5
Learn how a loud thunderclap warns the creatures of the desert that a flood is coming!
Coyote Autumn | AW-308 | $ 6
A boy adopts a coyote and tries to keep it hidden. A great opportunity to talk with kids about honesty and openness.
One Day in the Tropical Rainforest | AW-309 | $ 5
A young boy is desperate to stop bulldozers from leveling the rainforest. How can he stop them?
Flute’s Journey | AW-310 | $17
Follow a bird on its migratory journey to the south, and find out what challenges the bird meets along the way.
The Tarantula in My Purse | AW-311 | $ 6
If you’ve never kept a tarantula, owl or turtle as a pet, find out what kind of trouble it can be to keep them!Young Learner Set Resources
Burrows, Beehives and Beds Journal | AW-801 | $ 29
This WP Exclusive is an interactive notebook in which students record experiment outcomes, track weather, study animals and more! Over 200 pages of interactive journaling, experiments and crafts. This journal mirrors many activities in the older "Habitats, Hollows and Homes Journal," but also has special activities developed for young learners that involve simple crafts, easy experiments, or early learning skills. Your student may "Hunt Like a Squirrel," "Make a Bear Paw Sign," "Make an 'M' Forest," or even "Create a Salmon Flip Book." Fully illustrated and consumable. Also includes some full color pages for use in making dioramas for each habitat. Click here to see a sample.
Alphabet Art | AW-802 | $14
Each of the letters of the alphabet are highlighted with a letter craft, activities & games to help young students learn the alphabet. In addition, animal craft projects are coordinated with the alphabet letters. NOTE: The introduction of the letters in this program are coordinated with the week they are introduced in the “Basic Phonics” LA program.
Ed Emberley’s Animals Drawing Book | AW-803 | $ 8
This art instruction book begins with basic shapes, such as rectangles, squiggly lines, and curly-cues --then shows the student how to combine the simple shapes to draw animals! Improves fine-motor skills essential to handwriting.
At the Zoo! Explore the Animal World with Craft Fun | AW-804 | $13
Make all sorts of interesting creatures from simple supplies.
Animal Alphabet Dot-to-Dot | AW-805 | $ 5
The dots in this book are labeled with the alphabet, helping your student learn alphabetical order.
Animal Alphabet Coloring Book | AW-806 | $ 5
Each page has a large letter surrounded by animals whose names begin with that letter.
Big Book of Five-Minute Devotions | AW-850 | $13
This colorful resource includes a short devotional perfect for younger learners and a question and answer format that follows up on what’s been shared. A perfect tool to cuddle and learn about creatures God created.Get Your Questions about Animals Pre-K/K Answered!
Return to the top of the page, and click on the "FAQ" button on the graphic. It will take you to a page where you'll find answers to questions like these:What consumables are needed for extra students?
Which language arts programs coordinate with Animals?
Can I add an older student, and how do I make it work?
What if my student already knows a lot about animals?
And lots more!
