Nature Babies 

After Reading A Pinky is a Baby Mouse, you can have a baby naming contest!  Read aloud the last page of the book or the adapted stanza below to the class.

Teeny weeny nature babies,

There's news that's sad but true

Until somebody thinks of one

There is no name for you!

Your class might have fun naming these baby animals:

Aardvark

Platypus

Opossum

Skunk

Terry Thiesen's students at Hill Creek School in Santee, California, came up with names for a baby platypus. Here are samples of their names and illustrations.
 
 

Platypup

by Megan Hervey

 

Platypus, Platypus
You are the best.
Platypus, Platypus
Your baby name is Quest.

by Amber Carroll

Platypie

by Troy Robinson