Eight animals and their food fill this six-page kindergarten matching sheet. Students draw lines from a rabbit, bird, cow, and squirrel to what each one eats, then from a frog, bear, woodpecker, and monkey to where each one finds its food. A final tick box asks which food a dog would choose: hay, a bone, or leaves. The work builds toward NGSS K-LS1-1, and the answer key gives every match.
K-LS1-1
“Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.”
All three parts show that every animal needs food. Matching 2 adds the pattern that animals find food in the place they live.
Students draw a line from Rabbit, Bird, Cow, and Squirrel to carrots and grass, seeds and a worm, grass, and acorns.
The frog goes to a pond with flies, the bear to a river with fish, the woodpecker to a tree trunk with bugs, and the monkey to a tree with bananas.
One tick-box question. A dog chooses between hay, a bone, and leaves.
Read-aloud tie-in
Pair it with a picture book about farm or forest animals. Stop on each animal in the book and find it on the sheet.
Plant eaters
The cow and the rabbit both eat grass. Ask students which other animals eat plants, and which ones, like the bear, eat other animals.
Quick check
The dog question takes seconds. Use it on its own as an exit question when time runs short.
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