Description

The Life Cycle of a Snake Activity describes this vertebrate’s life cycle.   The female reptile, lays eggs, in a nest of decomposing leaves and twigs.  The decomposing matter keeps the eggs warm, as they incubate.  Between 60 and 85 days, hatchlings are borne.

This unique material takes the Child from the verbal story; developing the sensorial (concrete) understanding of the material with the objects (sold separately); to the abstract, with the incorporation of images and labels.  Colour-coded material, coded according to the Montessori Animal Kingdom.  The snakes are vertebrates, and coded brown.

Contents of the Life Cycle of a Snake Activity

• 1 x control chart
• 1st working chart called the labelled object working chart.  Use with the objects (objects are sold separately).
• 2nd working chart called the unlabeled working chart, use with the image and labels.
• Replace the objects with the 4 small images.  When ready, add the 4 labels onto the unlabeled working chart.
• The Child matches the real image of each life cycle of the snake, to the labeled image on the 4 activity cards.
• 1 set of 3-part cards, classifying the nomenclature for the very young child.
• 4 Definition cards with:
  • a control card,
  • a card with an incomplete phrase
  • labels to complete the phrase.
• All contents are stored in a transparent A4 plastic envelope.

The teacher can also use the definition cards as an aid as s/he tells the story of the life cycle of a snake activity to very young children.

Related Products

• Life Cycle of a Cobra Objects
• The Multiplication Snake Game

Further Reading and Reference Material

King Cobra Fact Sheet – interesting facts by PBS.org