Guinea Pigs and Friends

About this curriculum

You have bought the class a guinea pig and now they expect you to have all the answers on the new pet. With the 47 activities and teaching ideas will be a big help. Students will learn about the history of guinea pigs, other animals in their family and how to care for them as they improve their writing, language arts and math skills. List of Center Titles and Skills Covered: Cavy Creative Writing l. Shape Poems 2. Fantasy Story Writing 3. Descriptive Story Writing 4. Acrostic Poetry 5. Cinquains Professor Gin E. Pig's Science l. Weighing, Measuring, Recording 2. Food Preferences in Class Pet 3. Maze Observations Hurrah for Hamsters l . Word Search 2. Crossword Puzzle 3. Syllabication 4. Scrambled Letters 5. Double Consonants 6. Suffixes 7. Cloze Exercises 8. Organizing Words to Form Sentences 9. Alphabetical Order 10. Words That Don't Belong 11. Hard and Soft "g,, 12. Rhyming Words Desert Mouse Math l. Whole Number Operations +, -, x, + 2. Problem Solving +, - 3. Problem Solving x, + 4. Reading Labels+,-, x, + 5. Reading Charts 6. Geometric Shapes 7. Tiling, Patterns 8. Graphing Guinea Pig Research 1. Researching a Guinea Pig Relative 2. Organizing Facts 3…