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Questions to Ask your Child
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Key Vocabulary
go Through Life Cycles We Can Observe
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What is a life cycle?
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How do plants and animals change over their lifetime?
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How can we use our senses to gather and record information?
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Why do plants and animals reproduce?
Home Learning
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Go for a walk near a river or park and talk about what grows and
how it survives.
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Check out National Geographic for Kids online.
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Discuss previous trips, vacations or visits where you have seen
different animals, what they were and where they lived.
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Take photos, read books or draw pictures of plants, animals or
insects that you have observed with your child.
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Have your child make a mobile of the different stages of a life
cycle for a particular plant or animal.
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Have your child use the five senses vocabulary (see, hear, taste,
smell, touch) to explore nature around them.
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Plant a seed at home with your child and observe and record the
changes you see in it.
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life cycle
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survive
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five senses (see, hear, taste,
smell, touch)
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reproduce
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change
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observation / note-taking
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plant / animal / insect
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First, next, then, last