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.
 
 

Books


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

 

The vocabulary and book list on this page are provided in the series
"Into English!"
by

 
 
 
 

Hampton Brown.