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Classroom Programs for Kindergarten

Tales of Tails
Each student dons an animal tail.  Classmates guess what animal the tail comes from and discover how that animal uses its tail.

  • NY 3.1a Each animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival and reproduction.
  • NY 5.1b An organism’s external physical features can enable it to carry out life functions in its particular environment.
  • PA EE 4.7.4 B.1 Explain how specific adaptations can help a living organism to survive. 

Tail Models
Tails:  Gray Squirrel, Porcupine, Skunk, Woodpecker, Fish

Beautiful Birds
Yellow Warbler CloseupBirds are animals with feathers, beaks, and funny feet. Their babies come from eggs. Many birds build nests. They sing songs, too. Your students will see photographs, feathers and nests. They will listen to bird songs, and role play the life of a bird.

  • NY 3.1a Each animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival and reproduction.
  • NY 5.1b An organism’s external physical features can enable it to carry out life functions in its particular environment.
  • NY 4.1a Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beinging of a life, development into an adult, reproduction as an adult, and eventually death.
  • PA EE 4.7.4 B.1 Explain how specific adaptations can help a living organism to survive.
  • PA B3.3.4 A.1 Identify the life processes of living things (e.g. growth, digestion, react to environment).

If I'm really quiet, you won't see me. . .Animal Babies

Animals don’t take care of their babies the same way people take care of their children.  Different animals have different ways.  Children will learn about some ways that are similar to human ways, and some that are very, very different.

  • NY 2.2a Plants and animals closely resemble their parents and other individuals in their species.
  • NY 4.1a Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life, development into an adult, reproduction as an adult, and eventually death.
  • PA B3.3.4 C.1 Know that characteristics are inherited and, thus, offspring closely resemble their parents.