A Week of Zoo Animal Fun

This week our daycare/preschool will be learning about zoo animals!

Day 1:  Read Zoo Animals by Brian Wildsmith.  We'll review the animals we read about and make a list of animals in the book and a few others we could see at the zoo.  We will wrap up our day by making these adorable hand print animals.

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Day 2:  We'll compare our height to zoo animals!   Each kid will get a turn to lay on butcher paper and help us use the measuring tape to see how tall they are.  Then we'll use this chart to compare our little crew to a group of wild animals.

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Day 3:  Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle.  We'll talk about the different paws, feet, and claws the animals have and use this chart as a visual aid.  Then we'll use homemade chalk paint to go outside and make some wild animal tracks of our own.

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Day 4:  We review numbers and counting everyday, but they've never seen a number snake before!  We'll rote count to 10 and then we'll practice number recognition by putting the snake body parts in correct order.

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Day 5:  We'll make an animal cracker zoo and enjoy monkey cheese quesadillas to wrap up our week of zoo animal fun.

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We hope you'll be able to use some of these ideas with your little ones and have fun learning about zoo animals.