How a Kangaroo Joey Grows Up, Order the Steps

Look at baby pictures of a pet or a family member and talk about how they changed before the life cycle pages. Have your child retell each animal's stages in order with the words first, next and last. Check each page with the answer key.

Order how a joey the size of a jelly bean crawls into the pouch, drinks milk and leaves for good. A mammal is an animal that feeds its babies milk. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page, fill in the flow chart and answer the questions. On page 2: Write the steps from the Step Bank in boxes 1 to 4 in order. Then, circle the letter of the best answer for questions 5 and 6 and write the answer to question 7 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade animals, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with animal life cycles. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A life cycle is the set of stages an animal goes through as it grows. An ant has four stages, egg, larva, pupa and adult, and a dragonfly has three, egg, nymph and adult.

A nymph is a young insect, like a dragonfly or a grasshopper, that has no wings yet. It sheds its skin as it grows, about five times for a grasshopper, and it has wings once it is an adult.

Robins, ducklings, turtles and alligators hatch from eggs. Puppies, kittens, foals and whale calves are born alive and drink their mother's milk. One sheet has children sort six baby animals into these two groups.

Yes. All 14 animal life cycle sheets have an answer key.