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October 2024
Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Students will identify the steps an acorn woodpecker uses to store acorns in a tree to eat them during the winter when food is harder to find.
Next Generation Science Standards:
K-LS1-1: What animals need to survive.
1-LS1: How animals meet their needs so they can survive and grow.
Vocabulary:
store, snugly, squawk, sap
Use your Science Spin to find the best answer to each question.
1. Where do acorn woodpeckers store acorns for winter?
2. How do acorns woodpeckers make hole in the tree?3. What did Lauren see on the videos?
3. Why should the acorns fit snugly in the holes?
4. Draw what the woodpeckers do if squirrels try to grab their acorns.
Go online to print or project the Reading Checkpoint.
Materials: Manipulatives in three different colors that you pretend are acorns, space to hide and hunt for them, pencils, copies of the skill sheet
Overview: Kids pretend they are squirrels finding and sorting acorns in winter.
Directions: