Day Two: Recognizing Living Things
One of the best ways to help your child understand what things are living and non-living is through practice! Below you will find a review resource, followed by a couple of options of activities to give your child the opportunity or find living and non-living things in their environment.
Step One: Engage Your Student
The following video is a read aloud of "Living or Non-Living" by Abbie Dunne. This book offers a great way to remind your child about the difference between living and non-living things.
Remember to point out the four main rules that make something living:
- Living things need energy
- Living things can grow and change
- Living things reproduce
- Living things react to things in their environment
Now Practise!
Activity One: Neighbourhood Walk
- Take a walk in nature or around your neighbourhood
- Expanding Vocabulary: Bring a notebook, or anything to write on and make a list of living and non-living things using writing and drawing
- Have conversations about why things are living or non-living
Activity Two: Magazine Search
- Take a look through magazines
- Circle items that are living or non-living
- Or make an art collage by cutting out all of the living things
- Have conversations about why things are living or non-living
Are these activities not an option in your home? Don't let that stop you. Living and non-living things can be found anywhere! Try:
- Movies and television shows
- Books
- Around your home
- Youtube videos
*Be on the look out for evidence of learning by observing if your child can accurately define items as living or non-living.*