Teacher use Kid Pix or Power Point to put the students' pictures into a slide show presentation. Each student tells a sentence about his picture as the slide is played. If you don't know how to do this, ask the computer teacher. It is not too complicated and the students will learn to recognize the names of the animals from viewing their slide show over and over. After learning about the animal groups, students write and illustrate pages for a class book.
Students draw one animal on a page.
Magazine pictures can also be used. With the help of the teacher and labeled pictures in the writing center, students write the name of the animal they drew and the name of the animal group to which it belongs. Encourage students to make pages for as many of the animal groups as possible. Call for all pictures that belong to the mammal group. Put these together as a chapter in the book.