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Questions to Ask your Child Suggested Home Extensions Key Vocabulary s Have Needs and Go Through Life Cycles bserve ● How do plants and animals change over their time? ● What skills can we use to gather, record, and share information? ● How do living things interact in our environment? ● Where do you see patterns in our surroundings? Home Learning ● Go for a walk near a river or park and talk about what grows and how it survives. ● Check out National Geographic for Kids online. ● Discuss previous trips, vacations or visits where you have seen different animals, what they were and where they lived. ● Take photos, read books or draw pictures of plants, animals or insects that you have observed with your child. ● Have your child make a mobile of the different stages of a life cycle for a particular plant or animal. ● Have your child use the five senses vocabulary (see, hear, taste, smell, touch) to explore nature around them. ● Plant a seed at home with your child and observe and record the changes you see in it. ● life cycle ● survive ● pattern ● needs ● characteristics ● change ● living/non living ● habitat ● present ● share ● research ● information ● diagram ● observe ● record ● plant ● animal ● insect ● nature ● environment