A while back we shared the book Who’s Been Here?: A Tale in Tracks
We do not have any pets right now, but we do have a lot of wildlife in our yard. We often see critters in our yard – and even a couple of stray cows last year. I didn’t realize quite how popular our back yard was until today. We have a ton of tracks criss-crossing the property. We had a great time going out to look at them. I’m not quite sure how accurate we are in our identification, but we’re open to other people’s interpretations. 
Here’s what we found:
We think the birds had a party here!
A cat has been here!
A deer has been here!
A dog has been here!
A squirrel (or rabbit?) has been here!
Tornado Boy had been here!
We also had fun looking a pictures of tracks online while we tried to figure out what we had seen. We found a couple of cool resources. A track matching game is available at Montessori for Everyone (look for the animal tracks pdf under the Zoology section). These can be printed on cardstock and laminated if desired. There’s a picture of the finished product on the PreKinders blog. The other matching printout we found was at Exploring Nature site. The child can draw a line from the animal to their track.
I love it when lessons like this present themselves!
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