Life Cycle-sample for REQ-Website
| RiseUpEQ.com/life-cycle-horse | 2 |
| Read • Explore • Aspire • Learn | 2 |
| For Curious Horse Learners... | 3 |
| What will you need to be successful with horses? | 3 |
| Story Note: Imagination and Real Life Some characters in this workbook are imaginary. They may act silly, talk, or think like people because that makes the story more fun. | 3 |
| Real horses do not talk like people or understand the world exactly as people do. As you read, look for the difference between imagination, story lessons, and real horse facts. | 3 |
| Curious horse learners ask: What is real? What is imagined? What can this help me learn? | 3 |
| Vocabulary Challenge #1 | 5 |
| Before Merlin’s story begins, warm up your horse vocabulary. This challenge will help you notice important words about horse care, safety, body language, riding, groundwork, and learning around horses. | 5 |
| Are you excited to meet Merlin? First, let’s build a little more horse knowledge! | 5 |
| Match the horse words you found — Merlin’s story is almost ready to begin. | 5 |
| Merlin's Grandsire | 6 |
| Xenophon (zen-o-fawn) is Merlin’s grandsire. He is a Warlander, a breed developed from Friesian and Andalusian horses. Look closely at his appearance in the photos. What color do you think Xenophon is? | 6 |
| Presence, Merlin’s dam, is out of Eowyn and by Xenophon (ZEN-oh-fawn). | 6 |
| Which parent do you think Presence resembles most? | 6 |
| Turn the page and see Merlin's grandparents in action! | 6 |
| Feeling Afraid vs. Fear | 7 |
| What does Feeling afraid mean? In this workbook, feeling afraid describes an immediate response to something that seems dangerous, sudden, or unfamiliar. What does fear mean? Fear can also describe worry about something unsafe that might happen again or could happen in the future. | 7 |
| How Would You Feel? | 7 |
| You are walking in the woods and a snake suddenly drops on your head from a tree. | 7 |
| Is this a feeling of afraid or fear? | 7 |
| One week later, you think about walking through the woods. You decide to go another route because there might be another snake in the trees. | 7 |
| Is this a feeling of afraid or fear? | 7 |
| Can you fill in the missing words in the sentences below? But first you will need to unscramble the letters and put the words in the word corral! | 8 |
| Word (Un)Scramble | 8 |
| sheo = osesh = hdso = voehos = gninwea = | 8 |
| aenwilng = ofho = noeihgs = ewna = aenewd = | 8 |
| Fill in the Blanks | 8 |
| We our horses every seven weeks. | 8 |
| A farrier as part of professional hoof care. | 8 |
| Some horses get trimmed and also regularly. | 8 |
| Horses should be calm when the farrier is . | 8 |
| The horse is very hard. | 8 |
| The horse has four . | 8 |
| When Presence was ready to Merlin, she pinned her ears at him. | 8 |
| She was saying it was time that Merlin was from milk. He was eating grass, hay, and foal grain. | 8 |
| The process can be stressful for foals. | 8 |
| Once the foal is completely off milk, he is a . | 8 |
| Download free Merlin Bonus Activities and find printable pages and updates connected to this workbook. | 9 |
| Keep reading. Keep exploring. Keep learning. | 9 |
| riseupeq.com/life-cycle-horse | 9 |
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