![]() ![]() I couldn’t help but think of the book Is Your Mama a Llama? when I first saw this activity! We’ve read it only a million times here at the Hill House. Hop on over to All About Reading now and download your set of Baby Animal Names and match away! I’ll tuck it away and we will get it out again in next month and we will see how much he remembers! We have used the match game several times already this week. I learned with my older children that having a print-rich environment is helpful for beginning readers. My son was not familiar with the word ‘gosling’ or that a baby raccoon was called a kit. I like the “extra” that this matching game offers in printing the names of animals and their babies. ![]() ![]() Give your guests one and a half minutes to match as many baby animal names to their parents as they can. He’s getting closer to being ready to read! Print out one animal matching sheet per guest before they arrive. My son is not yet reading, but can sound out most CVC words with help. We left space in the column to find the match. He determined if it should go in the Mother column or the Baby column, and then put it in the right place. If the word was longer, he identified the beginning sound of the word and I showed him how to sound out the rest, running my finger along as I made each phonetic sound. Ask your guests to write the proper name for the animal’s baby opposite the animal name. To play this game, make a list of twenty animals and photo copy it so each guest at the party will have one. As your child opens the eggs, talk about the name of the animal. Continue selecting eggs looking for matches. If the animals do not match, put them back in their eggs. If the animals match, set them off to the side. A baby raccoon is a kit, while a baby deer is a fawn. How to Play: The goal of the game is to match the baby animals to their moms. As he turned each card over, we sounded out the name of the animal on the front if it was a short word (such as ‘pig’). There is a specific name for all animal babies. To play, my son wanted to turn the cards over over so only the words on the back were showing. ✔ Click here to download Baby Animal Names Match Game from All About Learning. My son and I cut out the game together, and then placed ‘Mother’ at the top to form a column, and ‘Baby’ beside it to form a second column. In this matching game from All About Reading, your child will match animal babies with their mamas. Please see my disclosure policy for more information. ➡ Take a look at how we Use Match Games in Our Homeschool with a variety of ages and stages. This week, my 5 year old and I are practicing the words ‘mother’ and ‘baby’ while we play this Baby Animal Names match game from All About Reading! ➡ You can read about How I Teach Spelling in Our Homeschool, which is based on years of trial and error and lots of research! This phonics curriculum is extremely homeschool mom-friendly, and the preparation time is streamlined.Īll About Spelling and All About Reading both helped me as the homeschool teacher learn how to teach my children to phonics, which of course led to them spelling and reading. For years and years, All About Reading and All About Spelling were curriculum staples here at the Hill House. ![]()
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