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You are invited to download the posters and picture sorting cards with Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals – learning printables for preschool and kindergarten children. Use this resource with clear true-to-life images to create hands-on spring and summer activities for your students. This resource will come in handy if you are planning to explore animals in your Montessori and early childhood classroom.

Head to the Resource Library to download the free sorting cards – Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals Sort. It includes two sets each containing 20 labeled picture cards for sorting.
Use these cards to support a child’s interest in topics and expose them to new vocabulary. Print on cardstock and laminate for longer use. After cutting cards, draw with marker or stick dot stickers to the back of each set – one color for each set. Place the label cards in a row. Explain the difference between the two categories of animals. Invite the child to sort cards into two categories. The goal is for children to grasp the concept and have a visual presentation to learn the difference between the two. After the child completed the task, invite him or her to flip the cards and self-check. Each card has to be under the correct category based on the dot color.

Younger children can be encouraged to match animals pictures when printed twice. Older children might be inspired to research and create their own book of Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals that dwell in your area.
Here is what’s included:
2 sets of cards – one with isolated images and the second with photographs each containing
2 x label cards
10 x labeled cards featuring nocturnal animals
10 x labeled cards featuring diurnal animals

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Wild Animals Preschool Pack – “I am a Zoologist”
Learning activity pack for preschool children aged 3-5. “I am a Zoologist” activity pack contains printables to create a wide range of hands-on experiences for young children. Students will practice one-to-one correspondence, letter formation, spelling, tracing, cutting, identifying sounds and sight words, widen their vocabulary, work on storytelling, practice gross motor movements, motor skills, and hand muscles, develop logical thinking, and so much more.
Here is what’s included:
- Instructions and activity variations
- Letter formation (z,h,l,i,k)
- Sight words (10 words)
- “I am a zoologist” initial sound game
- I Can Make 7 and I Can Make 8 – addition activities
- My Animal Rescue Mission – story writing sheet
- Gross motor dice printouts and cards
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- Animal habitats – sorting cards (polar, woodlands, rainforest, desert) 6 animals per habitat
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- Animals of Continents – sorting activity
The printable features realistic clipart and photographs.
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Children’s Books AND PRINTABLES About Woodland Animals
The Deciduous Forest Biome - Nature Curriculum in Cards
The Deciduous Forest Biome is a learning set containing 3-part cards, description cards, information posters, and research worksheets for students to learn about the temperate deciduous biome. Students will learn about the main characteristics of this ecosystem, animal and plant adaptations.
Forest Vocabulary 3-part Cards
Forest Vocabulary 3-part Cards for Kindergarten, First, Second Graders. This file includes:
36 themed vocabulary cards (four to one page) with forest elements – plants, wild berries, wildflowers, trees, pine cones, fungi with large unique graphics and text to match.
Taiga Biome Boreal Forest - Characteristics, Animal and Plant Adaptations
The Taiga Biome is a learning set containing 3-part cards, description cards, information posters, student booklets for coloring and practicing handwriting, and research worksheets for students to learn about the boreal forest. Students will learn about the main characteristics of this ecosystem, animal, and plant adaptations.

The Fascinating Animal Book for Kids: 500 Wild Facts!
Frogs and foxes, scorpions and sharks―The Fascinating Animal Book for Kids has it all! This animal encyclopedia includes 500 amazing animal facts that offer hours of engaging learning. Alongside full-color pictures on every page, you’ll find weird and wonderful details about Magnificent Mammals, Creepy Crawlies, Amazing Amphibians, Feathered Friends, and more.

Hop, Bunny!: Explore the Forest
Hop, Bunny! uses simple vocabulary and fun pictures to capture the interest and help develop the skills of beginning readers. The cuteness, humor, and fun information make this new reading experience a treat.

National Geographic Readers: Foxes
Packed with beautiful and engaging photos, this new leveled reader dives into the amazing world of foxes. Kids will learn all about fascinating foxes, including where they live, how they hunt, and what their families are like. National Geographic Readers' combination of expert-vetted text, brilliant images, and a fun approach to reading have proved to be a winning formula with kids, parents, and educators.

Face to Face with Wolves
In this book, kids have the chance to get up close to these fascinating creatures to discover how they play, hunt, and live together as a family. Readers will also discover the challenges wolves face in the wild.

National Geographic Kids Bird Guide of North America, Second Edition
Kids can soar with peregrine falcons or hop with backyard sparrows or sing with robins in the pages of this engaging guide, perfectly leveled for kids just discovering these fascinating feathered friends. With beautiful photography and habitat snapshots, lots of the fun facts kids love, plus interactive birding activities and crafts, the newly updated and expanded guide is the perfect way to bring the fun and amazement of beautiful birds to junior birders.

National Geographic Readers: In the Forest
What kinds of interesting critters live amongst the forest trees? Adult and child readers can find out together in this new Level 1 co-reader from National Geographic Kids, full of engaging photos and fun facts.

Deer For Kids
What are deer? What do deer look like? What do deer eat? Where do deer live? True deer versus other deer.

Deer, Moose, Elk and Caribou (Kids Can Press Wildlife Series)
Did you know that, less than a week after it is born, a baby deer can run faster than a human? Or that, in a day, a moose eats as many as 90 big salad bowls of greens? Simple straightforward text and realistic detailed illustrations explain where and how deer live, how they give birth, what they eat, anatomy and much more.

North American Black Bears
Black bear claws latch onto bark as they climb up trees. Find out these beautiful bears' life cycle, diet, and habits in their woodland home.

Who Lives Here?
Children will see where these animals-beavers, foxes, raccoons and frogs-live, while learning that whether it is in a tree, a pond, or a cave, there's no place like home!

Gray Squirrels
Gray squirrels leap from high heights to move from tree to tree. Discover these delightful rodents' life cycle and lifestyle in the woods.

What If There Were No Gray Wolves?:
Deciduous forest ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important gray wolves are.

A Walk in the Deciduous Forest
Take a walk in the deciduous forest. In this biome of leafy trees and fast changing weather, there are four very different seasons.

Red Fox
Beautiful color photography makes each animal come to life. Learn about the red fox’s habitat, diet, breeding, lifespan, behavior, threats, and so much more!

America's Forests: Guide to Plants and Animals
America’s Ecosystems series explores everything from ponderosa pines of the West to the tropical rain forests of Central America.

Wilderness Discoveries
The Wonders of the Great Lakes Region Await! Come explore the Great Lakes region, a place where hawks soar overhead, monarch butterflies spread colorful wings, beavers build underwater fortresses, and a stick might suddenly scurry away.

My First Book about Deer
What are deer? What do deer look like? What do deer eat? Where do deer live? True deer versus other deer

A Little Fawn
Little ones will learn all about the baby deer. What do they do when they are born? How and what do they eat? Where do they sleep?

Facts About the Moose
Packed with facts about the Moose, your children or grandchildren will enjoy learning from start to finish while they read this kids Moose book.

White-Tailed Deer
White tail deer gallop gracefully with their herd. They can outrun many animals. Learn more about these delightful deer, their woodland homes, life cycle, and diet.
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