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Animals That Hibernate Worksheets

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A picture list of animals that hibernate, a hibernate, migrate or stay active sort, an animals in winter read-aloud page and a drawing page.

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Animals that hibernate

Six animals that rest through the winter, each with a picture and a fact.

Hibernate, migrate or stay active

Sort animals by what they do in winter.

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    Hibernate, migrate or stay active sort

    Sorting animals that hibernate, migrate or stay active in winter

    Answer key on page 2

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Read aloud and draw

A short story about animals in winter, then a winter home to draw.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these animals that hibernate worksheets

Winter is hard for animals: it is cold and food is hard to find. Some animals hibernate, sleeping deeply until spring. Some migrate, traveling to warmer places. Others stay active, with thick coats and stored food.

These animals that hibernate worksheets start with a list of six animals that sleep or rest through the winter, from a bear asleep in its den to a bat hanging in a cave and a ladybug, each drawn in detail with a simple fact. Children sort animals into hibernate, migrate or stay active, listen to a short story about animals in winter and circle answers, and draw an animal snug in its winter home.

The pages connect to kindergarten work on what animals need and on weather and seasons.

Standards

  • NGSS K-LS1-1Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
  • NGSS K-ESS3-1Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
  • NGSS K-ESS2-1Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.B.3Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.ASort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

How to use them

  1. Read the list aloud and talk about where each animal spends the winter.
  2. Introduce the three big words: hibernate (sleep), migrate (travel) and stay active.
  3. Use the sort page to practice. The answer key is on page 2.
  4. Read the animals in winter story and answer the questions together.
  5. Finish with the drawing page, with a cozy den, burrow, cave or pond.

Teaching tips

  • Build a pretend den under a table with blankets and act out a bear going to sleep in fall and waking in spring.
  • Hibernating animals breathe slowly and their hearts beat slowly, so they use very little energy.
  • Some animals, like chipmunks, wake up now and then to snack on food they stored.
  • Frogs, turtles and snakes rest through the winter too, often buried in mud or underground.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What does hibernate mean?

To hibernate is to go into a deep sleep through the winter. The animal's breathing and heartbeat slow down so it uses very little energy.

What animals hibernate?

Bears, groundhogs, many bats and chipmunks hibernate, and some frogs and ladybugs rest through the winter too.

What is the difference between hibernate and migrate?

Animals that hibernate stay and sleep through the winter. Animals that migrate travel to warmer places with more food and come back in spring.

Do these worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. The sort and read-aloud pages have an answer key on page 2.