Animal Classification

To further our lesson on animal classification we decided to gather up all the animals around our house and put them into their groups.



Amphibians, fish and birds are not very plentiful in our home. And there are no stuffed reptiles lurking in dark places either. We tend to collect mammals. I sure it is the same in most everyone's house. Somehow those stuffed animals are more fun with furry bodies to pet and cuddle.

Even with so many Sophie can't seem to part with any of them. She says they are all necessary. She does actually play with most of them so they stick around.

We did a little better when we broke out the plastic animals and put them into groups.


There was actually a group made for invertebrate. I was surprised we had even these few. I didn't even try to break them into their subcategories yet. We haven't really studied the invertebrates yet. So they just got clumped all together.













This was a fun activity. The kids loved doing school this way. Sophie had a great time dividing her animals into their groups. Even Ian was very helpful. He could tell you that sharks were fish and whales were mammals. I was impressed. He does listen to a lot of what we read. We went through a big ocean stage with Sophie so we studied whales and sharks a lot.