Animal Adventures Presents:  Busy Bodies

This program is especially designed for ages three through five.  Students learn that animals are living creatures with many body parts similar to their own.  Basic adaptations are also explored. Through live animal encounters children discover that learning about the animal kingdom is fun!  

Georgia Pre-K Quality Core Curriculum/Georgia Performance Standards

 All Animal Adventures, Ltd. programs meet Georgia Pre-K Bright from the Start Content Standards, Georgia Quality Core Curriculum Standards (GA QCCS) and Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). Listed below are sample GA Pre-K, GA QCCS (and GPS where applicable) for Kindergarten in Language Arts and Character Education for our Busy Bodies program.

PERFORMANCE

Georgia Pre-K Bright from the Start Content Standards

Language and Literacy Development

LD1 – Children will develop skills in listening for a purpose.

LD1d – Listens to stories read aloud and shows understanding through body language or by interacting appropriately.

LD3 – Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books.

LD3b – Uses new vocabulary words correctly in the context of play or other classroom experiences.

Social and Emotional Development

SE3 – Children will increase the capacity for self-control.

SE3b – Follows rules and routines within the learning environment. (Audience Etiquette)

SE4 – Children will develop interpersonal and social skills for relating with other members of the learning community.

SE4a – Interacts appropriately with peers and familiar adults. (Audience Etiquette)

SE4b – Begins to recognize the needs and rights of others. (Audience Etiquette)

SE4c – Shows empathy and understanding to others. (Audience Etiquette)

SE4d – Participates successfully as a member of a group. (Audience Etiquette)

Georgia Performance Standards - Grade K English Language Arts (ELA)

LISTENING/SPEAKING/VIEWING

ELAKLSV1 The student uses oral and visual skills to communicate. The student

f. Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.

Georgia Performance Standards - Grade K Science

SCIENCE, LIFE SCIENCE

SKL1 Students will sort living organisms and non-living materials into groups by observable physical attributes.

b. Group Animals to their observable features such as appearance, size, motion, where it lives, etc. 

SKL2 Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms.

a. Explain the similarities and differences in animals (color, size, appearance, etc.)

Georgia QCC Standards – Grade K

Subject: Character Education, Strand: Respect for Others, #11 – Topic: Respect for Others

Standard: Altruism: concern for and motivation to act for the welfare of others.

11.3 – Courtesy and Cooperation: recognition of mutual interdependence with others

resulting in polite treatment and respect for them (as related to audience etiquette).

Georgia Performance Standards – Grade K Science

SKCS4 Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.

a. Use a model – such as a toy or a picture – to describe a feature of the primary thing.