Lesson Plan: ¿Abrazarías a esta dulzura?

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Children will identify the defenses and other characteristics of hedgehogs.

Vocabulary: hibernar, olfatear, salvaje

Science Focus: animal defenses

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• In this heartwarming story, Hedgehog needs a hug, but other animals run away from his spikes. But there's someone who will accept the challenge.

• Play a hedgehog counting game with this cute craft. Have children create a hedgehog in pairs. First, have them shape a piece of brown or neutral play dough to look like a hedgehog’s body. They can add googly eyes to show where its face is. Give the pair a supply of brown or black pipe cleaners cut into short pieces.
• Next, have partners take turns rolling a number cube and pushing that many pipe cleaner “púas” into their hedgehog. The game ends when all the quills have been added.

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. Encuentra el titular. Subráyalo.

2. Encuentra la imagen de una cría de erizo. Márcala con un ✔.

3. En el recuadro verde, encuentra la palabra que significa oler con interés. Rodéala.

4. Mira la barra al final de la revista. ¿Cuál de los erizos está hibernando?

Skill: art, writing

Materials: paper plates, markers or crayons, scissors

• Cut paper plates in half so that each child gets half a plate. With the straight edge facing down, have children cut a curve (like a small semicircle) out of the right end.
• Next, have children color the hedgehog and draw its nose, eye, mouth, and ear.
• Have children cut along the lines of the paper plate’s ridges to make the quills.
• On the back of the plate, have kids write one fact they learned about hedgehogs.