Pages 1 to 3 each hold a short text and a life cycle diagram, with questions on what comes next and the words the text teaches. Pages 4 and 5 are steps in order: how a spider spins a web, and a pinecone bird feeder children can make. Page 6 matches words from the texts to their meanings, and page 7 works with any animal: draw and write each stage of its life cycle.
Trace each life cycle with a finger before answering, saying "first, next, then, at last". For page 5, make the bird feeders as a class, reading each step aloud before doing it, and use a seed butter rather than peanut butter where there are nut allergies.
Read a life cycle together and ask what would happen next if the circle went round again. Make the pinecone bird feeder on page 5 together and hang it where you can watch.
Short texts about the life cycles of a frog, a butterfly and a chicken, how a spider spins a web and how to make a pinecone bird feeder, written at a 2nd grade level. Children tell how each stage or step leads to the next and work out new words from the text.
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