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Animals A to Z Activity: Flamingo

Students learn interesting facts about animals as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

If you would like to share a photo of this animal with your students, we suggest you search the Google Image Library; it is an excellent source of animal photos. And EnchantedLearning.com offers coloring pages related to all of our Animals A to Z animals.

Activity Key

Uncorrected Text

  • Flamingos build a nest by makeing piles of mud
  • The mother and father flamingo take turns siting on the mother's egg.
  • A flamingo's color come from the shrimp and other creature it eats.
  • A flamingo can look four food in deep water because its legs is so long.
  • Flamingos eat by sucking up water and mud. They pump the water and mud out of their bills and trap small water creatures in side there mouths.
  • Flamingos must run a few step to gain the speed they need to fly.

Answer Key

  • Flamingos build a nest by making piles of mud.
  • The mother and father flamingo take turns sitting on the mother's egg.
  • A flamingo's color comes from the shrimp and other creatures it eats.
  • A flamingo can look for food in deep water because its legs are so long.
  • Flamingos eat by sucking up water and mud. They pump the water and mud out of their bills and trap small water creatures inside their mouths.
  • Flamingos must run a few steps to gain the speed they need to fly.

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About Animals A to Z

Education World's Animals A to Z printable activity pages are designed for weekly use with students in grade 2-4. Students learn interesting facts about animals they know (and some animals they don't know) as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

These work sheets are also excellent test-preparation tools. The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests in grades 2 and 3: simple word usage, end-of-sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others. The skills do not include the appropriate use of apostrophes (except in contractions) and more advanced skills. If you want editing activities that include those skills, be sure to see our daily Every-Day Edit series.

For more information about this series, or for ideas for using it, be sure to see the Ideas for Using Animals A to Z page.

Note: At first, these activities might be challenging for your students. That's not a bad thing! Encourage them to keep at it. Go over the activities as a class. If students stick to it, they will get better at finding all ten errors on each work sheet. They'll be developing the skills that they will encounter on standardized tests too!