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Zoo
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*Zoo Animals
*Art
Animal-Picture Books
Need: magazines, catalogs, paper
Cut out magazine pictures of different kinds of animals. Provide each
child with several sheets of paper, folded and stapled into a book.
Encourage them to choose pictures to glue into their books, then make
up stories about the pictures.
Encourage children to write their own stories by using scribbles or
invented spelling or by dictating their stories.
*Learning
Centers
Science
Habitat
On the science table, place a bowl of water, a tray of dirt, and a
box with hay or grass. Also, include many small toy zoo animals. The
children can place the animals in their correct habitat.
*Snacks
Animals on Grass
Take a graham cracker and spread either peanut butter or green-tinted
cream cheese on the top. Stand an animal cracker on the top of the
graham cracker.
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By Marie and Roland Smith
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A is for Animals
that live in the zoo.
Caring for creatures
is what zookeepers do.
How do zookeepers keep animals in their charge safe and healthy? How do they transport them, house them and save them from disease and extinction? What's the one sound a zookeeper will never forget? What's an incubator?
For the answers to all of these questions and more, parents and teachers will want to share this delightful book with children. |
*Elephant
*Fingerplays/Songs
An elephant goes like this and that
An elephant goes like this and that,
(pat knees)
He's terrible big,
(put hands up high)
And he's terrible fat,
(wiggle fingers)
And he has no toes,
(touch toes)
But goodness gracious, what a nose!
(make curling movement away from nose)
*Large Motor
Five Big Elephants
Five big elephants - oh, what a sight,
Swinging their trunks from left to right!
Four are followers, and one is the king.
They all walk around in the circus ring.
(To pantomime, the children crouch over and clasp their hands, then
move arms left and right as they walk. Choose four children to be
elephants who follow one chosen to be king. The 'elephants' walk
around the room several times as the rhyme is recited.)
Elephant Feet
Need: Grocery bags, rubber bands or ties made from a old sheet.
Using black felt pen make elephant toes on the grocery bags. Have
children put bags on one foot or both. Tie tops. Using arms have
children "find their trucks". Now put on "The Jungle
Book" record or some other wild record and off the
"Elephants" stomp!
*Giraffe
*Art
Make a giraffe
Need: giraffe, brown fingerpaint, clothespins
Giraffe pattern
Cut the shape of a giraffe out of yellow posterboard; just the body
without the legs. Have the children fingerpaint brown tempera spots
on the giraffe. Clip two clothespins onto the giraffe for legs/feet.
Children fingerpaint feet onto the clothespins....The kids love it.
Contributed By: Rosie Ortegon
*Monkey
*Fingerplays/Songs
The Monkey
The monkey claps, claps, claps his hands. (clap hands)
The monkey claps, claps, claps his hands. (clap hands)
Monkey see, monkey do.
The monkey does the same as you.(use pointer finger-change actions)
*Snack
Monkey Meals (serves one)
Ingredients: 1 banana, 1 hot dog roll , 2 tsp. peanut butter,
Miscellaneous vegetable slices
Peel banana, place in hot dog roll. Spread peanut butter over the
banana. Add various vegetable slices for condiments
*Tiger
*Games
Tiger Ball
Need: Large ball
Children sit in a circle (a small circle of five to eight children
provides more learning opportunity). If the group is large, divide
into two or three circles. Children chant the following verse as they
pass the ball around the circle:
Tiger ball, tiger ball,
Where it stops, no one knows.
If you're caught holding it,
You become a tiger.
On the word, "Tiger," whoever is holding the ball at that
moment must lose a turn, and sit in the center of the circle.
Children do not mind this penalty in the slightest because they are
the center of attention and because their time out is very brief.
This game, while very, very simple, is a great delight for little
children. It teaches them, in the gentlest way, something about
cooperation through simple give and take.
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