Sunday, December 19, 2010

Living and Non Living

I don't have pictures for this one one but I wanted to share the idea with you. One thing a preschooler can learn is whether things are living or non living. Take your preschooler on a walk and see how many things they can point out that are living and how many things they see that are not living. 

My son LOVES to take pictures with our digital camera. So something we might do with this lesson is take our camera, get pictures of all the living and non living things that we see, then we could come home and make a collage of all the living things on one page and the non living things on another page.

Another idea if you are feeling super brave is to take your child to the pet store and let them see all the different kinds of living things and then go to a park or even the grocery store and see that the items on the shelves are non living.

Once you have living and non living down you could test them a little bit. Is a leaf living? Is a tree living? Is dirt living? Is a worm living? You take turns asking each other if different objects a living or non living. We really enjoy playing this game with numerous different subjects.

Most of all have fun with this activity. Kids love living things. In fact they love non living things also. Send us your pictures or tell us how this activity worked for you!

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