Azalea Wren Resources

These classification activities help young children learn about the wild animals in the River Adventure stories. Young children can cut out and paste animal pictures onto the silhouettes of their corresponding classification pages. After determining wether an animal is an amphibian, mammal, reptile, or bird, children can cut out and paste the name of each animal onto its own information page. While learning some facts about each animal, children get to trace words and color the pictures.

Looking for a fun way to help children work on their math skills while building their reasoning skills? This engaging math mystery is full of activities that will help them unlock clues to solve “The Mystery of the Missing Lunch.” The activity pages provide extra practice in writing the numerical form of written numbers, adding and subtracting ten, choosing highest number value, and using a math box puzzle. When young learners successfully complete all four clue pages and discover the lunch thi

Invite your young explorers into the world of the River Adventures friends. Along with characters from Lily and the Tentative Turtle, your children will learn about telling sentences, word order, naming words (nouns), action words (verbs), and how to properly organize simple sentences.

In this engaging science activity, students follow Timothy the Turtle as he explores the fascinating life cycles of three different insects: the ant, the ladybug, and the dobsonfly. Children learn about the process of metamorphosis, including the stages of egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Each insect’s life journey is presented in a fun, age-appropriate way that highlights unique adaptations and environments—from underground ant tunnels to leafy meadows and cool riverbeds. Children hone their tactil

Make subtraction facts fun with our math maze decoder puzzle. As they find the answers to the math facts they will also unlock the hidden message that Timothy left for Lily to help her find her way through the maze to where he is waiting.

Introduce your students to the x-y coordinate grid. Children discover the coded message by mapping the vertices.

Need to help children distinguish the differences between telling sentences and questions? We’ve got you covered. Join Timothy the turtle and Lily the otter in their game with friends using facts and questions to get aquatinted. Your children can simply box or circle the sentences.

Are your students in need of some double digit counting practice? Children start with the first turtle on each log and count and write backwards to the last sun-basking reptile.

Get your students thinking by giving them our hidden message puzzles. They can unlock the coded messages by matching the numbers and letters.

Make counting to 100 fun! Children can count to 100 by hopping Phin the frog from lily pad to lily pad to help him catch his lunch.