Mammals is a comprehensive, child‑friendly introduction to the world of mammals. It teaches young learners what makes mammals unique—such as having hair, being warm‑blooded, and feeding their babies milk—using clear explanations and rich examples. Students explore where mammals live, how they move, what they eat, how they use their senses, and how they protect themselves. The teacher information section provides detailed background knowledge, including mammal characteristics, body systems, reproduction, adaptations, and lifestyles, making it easy for educators to confidently guide instruction.

The unit also includes a wide range of hands‑on activities: phonics, reading comprehension, writing, art, math, classification, research, and creative centers. Students read mammal fact cards, sort animals by traits, match babies to parents, explore habitats, and create stories, puppets, mobiles, and research booklets. With its blend of literacy, science, and creative tasks, the resource fully supports Grade 1 science expectations across Canada and aligns with NGSS and Common Core standards in the U.S.

Learning Expectations:

1. To become familiar with the various mammals that inhabit our world.
2. To become familiar with the various mammals that live in the community and its surrounding areas.
3. To make students aware that wild mammals can be domesticated.
4. To learn about the protection and conservation of
5. To make the students more aware of the habitats, food, homes, enemies and habits of wild
6. To help students recognize basic similarities between people and other mammals and their
7. To make students more familiar with wild and domesticated family homes.
8. To make students aware that mammals may be born live or hatched from an
9. To develop an understanding of camouflage, nocturnal, hibernation and

10.To make students aware that mammals use different body parts to move

Introduction:

• Learning Expectations and Vocabulary
• List of Skills and Activities
• Teacher Information on Mammals
• Classification of Mammals Chart
• Teacher Input Suggestions
• Poetry Selections
• Musical Selections
• Student Activity Tracking Sheets

 Standards Alignment Charts

Canadian Standards Chart (Grade 1)

U.S. Standards Chart

Activities Include:

Phonics Activities:

1. Initial Consonant Review
2. Final Consonant Review
3. Vowel Review
4. Digraph "Ch"
5. Initial Consonant "Mm"

Word Study Activities:

1. Rhyming Words
2. Alphabetical Order
3. Syllabication
4. Compound Words
5. Word Search

Brainstorming Activities:

1. Illustrating/Naming Farm Animals
2. Illustrating/Naming Forest Animals
3. Illustrating/Naming Jungle Animals
4. Illustrating/Naming Mammal Homes
5. Illustrating/Naming Water Mammals

Reading Information and Follow-Up Activities:

1. The Striped Skunk - Recalling Details
2. The Gray Wolf - Recalling Details
3. Goats - Creating a Beginning
4. The Opossum - Creating an Ending
5. The Leopard - Antonyms

Creative Writing Activities:

1. Completing a Poem
2. Writing a Story about a Picture
   1. Five pictures to choose from

Association/Classification:

The "Amos Ape's Matching" instruction cards are to be colored and mounted on an envelope or holder and then laminated. Store the required pictures and classifying header cards inside the envelope. The mammal pictures may be reproduced, colored (if desired), mounted on a sturdy backing and laminated. Store the pictures in the envelopes.

1. Matching Name to Picture
2. Matching Baby to Family
3. Matching Part to Mammal
4. Matching Mammals to Habitat.
5. Classifying WIid/Tame Mammals
6. Classifying Big/Small Mammals

Research Activities:

Students will research and make a mammal booklet.

1. Researching an Elephant
2. Researching a Dog
3. Researching a Goat
4. Researching a Camel
5. Researching Dolphins
6. Researching a Squirrel

Art Activities: 

1. Paper Bag Puppet
2. A Greeting Card
3. Painting Large Mammals
4. Modeling Mammals
5. Mammal Mobile
6. Mammal Collage

 Language Activities:

1. Creating a Sentence Beginning
2. Creating the End of a Sentence
3. Using "Did" or “Done"
4. Using “Is" or “Are”
5. Possessives

Math Activities:

1. Sequence Counting by l's
2. Sequence Before/ After a Numeral
3. Patterning (2's, S's, l0's)
4. Addition Facts to 1 0
5. Subtraction Facts to 10 

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