Our letter U theme was underground animals. Today I’m sharing some resources for teaching kids about underground animals. There are teachers’ guides, book-related projects, crafts and a snack to give you a little inspiration for your own underground animal theme. If you have or know of any other ideas for this theme, I hope you’ll share them in the comments.
General Resources About Underground Animals
Underground Animals Preschool Ideas (Amanda Hoover on SlideShare)
Underground Animals Resource Guide, includes many resources appropriate for PK-Grade 2 (Pawnee Schools)
Underground Animals List and Resources (Enchanted Learning)
Above or Below Ground Sorting Activity with Free Printable (The Homeschool Den)
U is for Underground Preschool Lesson (Delightful Learning)
Animals That Live Underground Diorama (A Little Learning for Two)
Underground U Letter Craft (Teaching Mama)
Activities and Ideas for Specific Underground Animals
There are many different animals that live underground. I didn’t attempt to include all of them here, but I did want to include a couple of ideas in case you want to do specific animal studies for your theme.
5 (Awesome) Ways to Learn About Wombats (Wildlife Fun 4 Kids)
Hedgehog Craft (Fantastic Fun and Learning)
Groundhog Pudding Snack (Flower and Sugar)
I is for Insect, great collection of unique ideas (Train Up a Child)
Armadillo Crafts (Danielle’s Place)
The series will be a little different from our previous alphabet series. It will include three posts. In addition to this post, I will share a book list and one summary post of the activities we did.
Do you have any other ideas or activities related to underground animals? I would love for you to share them in the comments.
Ann @ My Nearest and Dearest
Great list of resources, Shaunna. Pinning to my Daycare and Preschool Units board.
Shaunna
Thanks, Ann!
Rebecca at thisfineday
I love this use of the letter “U”. Umbrella and Umpire is all I could come up with. Underground animals is a lot more fun! Thanks for the post!
Shaunna
I was a bit stumped for the theme, too. Underwater can also be fun, but we were able to learn a lot with the underground theme.
Carla
This is a wonderful resource!! I’d love to invite you to share this post at Teach Me Tuesday, an educational linky party at Preschool Powol Packets–I hope to see you there!
Shaunna
Thanks for the invite! Glad to see Teach Me Tuesday is back.
Pinkoddy
That is a really good idea for the letter U
Thank you for sharing
Shaunna
Thank you! There weren’t too many options for letter U, and I thought this tied in well with the kids’ love of animals and science. I’m glad you like the idea, too!
Penny
Thanks so much for featuring my wombat play activities. Those ants are super cute too! Off to pin xx
Shaunna
I loved your wombat activities! Such fun ways to teach about wombats…and play, too!