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Children will identify animals that hibernate in winter.

Science Focus: hibernation

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• This fanciful rhyming tale follows several pajama-clad animals as they board a “hibernation train” and try to get cozy.
• The book is perfect for pairing with nonfi ction; each of the featured animals is a real winter sleeper! You’ll even fi nd scientifi c information on the last page.

• Kids learned the word hibernate from the mini book. Help make the word “stick” by having kids draw what the word means.
• Use our Draw the Word skill sheet or have kids draw it in a word journal.

Skill: content knowledge

Materials: Make a Chipmunk Nest skill sheets, glue, natural items such as leaves and grasses or art materials such as paper, tissue, and yarn

• Pass out the skill sheets. Explain that the chipmunk is ready to hibernate. Kids need to create a cozy nest!
• Go out and collect natural items for a soft bed or give kids materials such as leaf-shaped tissue or construction paper and yarn “grass.”
• Kids can color in the chipmunk and paste their items around it to make the nest.