Special Feature Lesson:

Students complete a puzzle to learn more about where some animals spend time when they sleep

Curriculum Focus:

• Science
• Art

Materials:

• "Where Do They Sleep?" puzzle
   

Activity:

  Print out the Where Do They Sleep? puzzle. Make enough photocopies for each student to use. 
  Review the Special Feature story. Discuss which animals truly sleep and which animals simply rest. Remind students that animals sleep at different times and in different places. Talk about the fact that we don't usually see wild animals sleeping out in the open. Ask students why this might be so (a sleeping animal is in danger of being attacked by another animal). Share a few examples of protected places animals sleep, using the Puddler story for ideas.
   Hand out the puzzle. Have children complete the puzzle and color in the animals if they wish. Define words students may not be familiar with, such as hive, lodge and burrow.
  Answers to the puzzle are as follows:  The squirrel sleeps in a leaf nest, the bat sleeps in a cave, the beaver sleeps in a lodge, the bee sleeps in a hive, the snake sleeps in a burrow, the owl sleeps in a hollow tree.

 

Extension idea:

Ask children to draw pictures of themselves in their own bedrooms and write about what makes their bedrooms special to them.