A guide for using our resources

Children will sequence the steps of the alligator life cycle.

Science Focus: egg animals, life cycles

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• In this adorable story, a little boy deals with a loitering alligator that his parents can’t see.
• Can he outsmart the alligator and lure it away?

• Work together to fi nd and circle the gr blend each time it appears in the issue.

Skill: measurement, labeling

Materials: chalk, measuring tape

• Kids can draw and label a lifesized American alligator on the playground or a sidewalk. An adult male alligator can grow to be 15 feet long from its snout to the end of its tail. The tail is about 7.5 feet long.
• Use a measuring tape to draw a 15-foot line, and make a mark right in the middle to show where the tail should start. Using the line as a guide, have children work together to draw the alligator, including head, body, four legs, and a tail!
• When the drawing is fi nished, they can add these labels: tail, leg, body, nostril, and snout.