Changing Times

Concepts  & Vocabulary

I Change

Age Specific Toys and Activities
ball, rattle, roller skates; build with blocks, crawl, drive a car, eat, play ball, read, run, sleep, write, etc.
 

Numbers
one, two, three, four, five, six

Sizes

bigger, longer shorter, small, taller
 

Baby Care
hungry, tired, wet; change, feed, rock
 

Clothing
pants, shirt, T-shirt

Seasons and Seasonal Activities
autumn, springs, summer, winter; fly kites, rake leaves, etc.

Creatures Change

Animal Life Cycles
bee (beehive, eggs, honey, larva), butterfly (caterpillar, cocoon, egg), frog (eggs, legs, tadpole, tail; green, long, tiny)
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/life/index.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/lifecycles.shtml
http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/cycle.html

http://www.butterflies.org.uk/lbh_home/cycle.htm

Insects
ants, beehive, bees, bodies (abdomen, antennas, head legs, thorax), homes (in the ground, under rocks)

Weather Changes

Seasons
autumn, fall, spring, summer, winter

Weather
cloudy, cold, hot, rain, raindrops, rainy, snow, snowy, storm, sun sunny, thunder, wind, windy

Colors
blue, brown, green, orange, red, yellow

Clothing
boots, gloves, hat, jacket, scarf, etc.
 

Descriptive Words
big, fast, hard, heavy, light, slow, small, etc.
 
 

You'll Soon Grow Into Them, Titch	Pat Hutchins
Life of the Honey Bee	Heiderose and Andreas Fischer-nagel
Bug	Nancy Winslow Parker and Joan Richards Wright
Insect Metamorphosis: From Egg to Adult	Ron and Nancy Goor
Very Quiet Cricket	Eric Carle
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow	Shirley Neitzel
First Comes Spring	Anne Rockwell