Without Habitat There is no Wild Life, it's That Simple

Hey yall,

     I hope you all had a beautiful sunny week as we did here in my corner of the world. It was incredibly hot for the first week of October, so maybe you did not have to deal with that if you are not a heat loving person. This week I thought it would be fun to learn and refresh about different animal habitats. Animals are fun for kids to learn and study and play pretend with. Doing a week on animal habitats is great for science, geography, fine and gross motor skills, sensory play, and helps them think outside of their home base and expands their imagination. It is always a lot of fun to do this theme and there are so many animal habitats to choose from.
     We also focused on the letter "Qq" and number 7 this week. Qq can seem tricky, but it is still doable for a week and still very fun.


Monday- Tracing Uppercase "Q"/The Jungle
Books:
My Q Soundbox by Jane Belk Moncure
Journey Through the Jungle by Steve Cox
Bedtime In the Jungle by John Butler

Songs:
Qq song from abcmouse on youtube
Five Little Monkey

Activities:
Review "Qq" vocab words. Practice tracing uppercase "Q"

Play with dry quinoa

Intro animal habitats and the jungle

Play with dollar tree slime for jungle slime

Go to the park

Tuesday-"Qq" Phonics Day/Practice Tracing Number 7/The Desert 
Books:
"Quack!" Said the Billy Goat by Charles Causley
Journey Through the Desert by Specs Art

Songs:
The Queen of Hearts
Sally the Camel
The 7 days of the week song

Activities:
Review "Qq" picture vocab. Work on "Qq" phonics work.

Go on a quest looking for animals in the neighborhood. We found dogs, cats, squirells, and birds.

Practice tracing number 7. Work on number seven group recognition using plastic desert animals I found at the Dollar Tree

Intro desert habitat.

Play with desert plastic animals with kinetic sand.

Wednesday:Practice Tracing Lowercase "q"/The Ocean
Books:
Qq by Kelly Doudna
Journey Through the Ocean by Steve Cox
Over in the Ocean in a Coral Reef by Mirianne Berkes

Songs:
Do you Know the Question Man (you can find the words typed out in my previous post under the lable "Qq activities")
Octopus Garden by Raffi
Baby Baluga by Raffi

Activities:
Review "Qq" vocab words. Practice tracing lowercase "q."

Play quiet as a mouse. Basically the first person to make a noise loses.

Intro ocean habitat.

Make a homemade tide pool with the seashells we brought home from our vacation at the beach this past summer. We put them in our splash pool aling with a little sand and water.

Thursday-Sequencing/matching/sorting day/The Forest
Books:
Quadrilateral by Molly Blaisdell (this is a very advanced stage of shape learning. I only picked this one because of how much my child already knows and is obsessed with his shapes).
Journey Through the Forest by Steve Cox

Songs:
A Quiet Quarterback (again you can find this song in my older Qq post)
Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Activities:
Review "Qq" vocab.

Make a quadrilateral shape paper quilt

Work on a matching, sorting, sequencing activity

Intro forest habitat.

Play the game going on a bear hunt.

Friday-"Qq" Tracing Review/Arctic Habitat and Habitat Review
Books:
Quack! The Sound of Q by Cynthia Kingel and Robert B. Noyed
Who Lives Here? By Dot and Sy Barlowe

Songs:
Five Little Ducks by Raffi
The Penguin Song on youtube

Activities:
Review "Qq" vocab words and tracing.

Paint with q-tips

Intro arctic habitat. Play with ice in the splash pool.

These are just some ideas I thought up toexplore animal habitats. Do you have any ideas that others might find fun with this theme or the letter "Qq?" Please share in a comment.