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Fine Motor Practice- Animal Tracing Pages

November 6, 2023 By Deirdre

Animals tracing pages are a great way to work on fine motor skills. Children can use any number of writing tools to trace each of the animals. This set features a lion, snail, lion, owl, elephant, turtle, koala bear, monkey, penguin, narwhal, ladybug, cat and a bear.

Getting the Animal Tracing Pages

First, you will need to download the set.

Fine Motor Practice- Animal Tracing Pages Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

Getting the Animal Tracing Pages Ready to Use

Making the Tracing Pages Reusable

If you plan on using the tracing pages over and over again, you may want to laminate them. Below I have suggested products that you may want to use to cover them.

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Tracing Tools

Tools That Leave Marks

Pencils
Color Pencils
Washable Markers
Crayons
Paint Brushs with Watercolors

Tool That Don’t Leave Marks

Chopsticks with Pumpkin Seed
Feathers
Closed Pens
Dry Paintbrush

Exploring the Tracing Pages

The pages in this set can be placed in a writing center, worked in one-on-one, or done as seatwork. It is really up to you.

The pages have a space for the children write there names so that you could use this as worksheet for seatwork time if you wan to.

More Activity Pages

Baseball Addition Puzzles

Fairy Tale Shape Building Mats

Flower Pattern Block Mats

Polar Animal Worksheets and Activities

January 15, 2023 By Deirdre

Welcome to Polar Animal Week! 3 Dinosaurs and I will be sharing five days of polar animal worksheets and activities. The sets in my part of the series focus on coding, STEM-building challenges, and binary code. Each weekday a new set will appear on each of our blogs. Please take a moment to check out and download each of our sets.

At the end of this post, you will find several other polar animal-themed activities. These are only a few activities available. Every day, more polar animal posts will be shared at the bottom of the new set of polar animal worksheets. After downloading the recent sets, you will want to check them out.

Building Background Before Starting an Activity

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You explore one of these polar animal-themed activities or books before working on one or all of the sets. It will help children build a background on themselves.

Polar animals will be fun to find in this 64-piece puzzle.

This game looks at saving the environment for polar animals.

This easy reader is a great way to learn facts about arctic animals.

Monday

Children will learn about binary numbers and how they represent alphabet letters. They will build the codes for the letters in narwhal, unicorn, and blessing (What a group of narwhals is called!).

Free Polar Bear Ending CVC Words sorting activity is being shared by 3 Dinosaurs this week.

Tuesday

This set features polar animals. Children are invited to build the animals using pattern blocks.

3 Dinosaurs is sharing Free Penguin Shape Sorting Printables.

Wednesday

Children can use whatever building materials they have on hand to build the shapes displayed by polar animals on these challenge cards.

After building shapes, you can count penguins with 3 Dinosaurs penguin-themed tens frames.

Thursday

My students love to code and color pages. This set features the coloring directions of Blockly coding blocks.

3 Dinosaurs is sharing a fun way to work on multiplication. Her free arctic animal multiplication clip cards.

Friday

I Spy penguins with a variety of feelings on these data-gathering activity pages.

Yesterday I shared a skip counting activity and today 3 Dinosaurs has shared one.

Polar Animals Activities

Kindergarten Math Worksheets - This set contains a number line, number and picture cards, and muffin tin numbers. They can be used to work on a number of math skills.

Waddling Penguin Song and Action Song

How to Build an Igloo for a Penguin STEM Activity

Penguin Number Activities

Do You See Animals When You Hike?

June 18, 2013 By Deirdre

JDaniel pointed out to me while we were hiking in Tennessee over Spring Break that hiking is not just about hiking it is about checking out all that nature has on display. I learned during those hikes that he was going to ask me often while hiking the same question. “Do you see animals when you hike?” he must have asked me a dozen times.We have started hiking at state park not far from us called Paris Mountain this summer. JDaniel loves trudging for hours on the trails there looking for animals and taking in all the there is to see. This means a 30 minute hike can take 45 minutes or longer.Every few steps he had to stop and look around. The Lake Placid Trail seems to have the most wildlife on it. I kept count as we hiked along it one day. JDaniel found ten different animals. I confess that I walked past many of them and had to turn around to see what he had seen.

Do You See Animals When You Hike? We saw the following animals.

Tadpoles and Frogs
Lizards
Birds
Toads
Snakes
Ducks
Turtles
Dragonflies
Ants
Fish

We learned to both walk quietly so we didn’t scare the animals away. There were three groups of turtles we scared off of logs while one of us tried to talk to the other about them. Once they slipped back into the water, we heard frogs leaping for their lives too. Thankfully there were several more logs that we passed. We walked very quietly past them. The turtles didn’t seem to notice we were there and were able to continue sunbathing. It also allowed us to see several frogs.

I also learned from my animal discovering son that I needed to step carefully too. This toad was almost a smudge on the bottom of my sneaker. We sat on a near by rock and watched him hop around this rock and through some trees. It was fascinating to watch him. He just to hop aimlessly from one area to another.

Here are some viewing tips:

Look carefully long the water line.
Scan the edges of the trail to the left and right of you.
Look both high and low.
Get down low and peek into nooks and crevices.
Turn your head slowly to follow sounds you are hearing.
Stand in place for a few moments and let the animals with bad short term memories forget you are there.

Disclosure:

While during this hike he noticed a lot of animals, we headed back a week later with his cousin and he was more interested in keeping up with Kev than looking for animals. I think we will probably have more opportunities to see animals when we hike when it is just my husband, JDaniel and I.

Do you see animals when you hike?

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