Talk about the different habitats and needs for each animal and how the zoo has to try to make a healthy enviroment for the animals. Use your sand table to create an area for water (blue fabric), an area of sand, an area of dirt, and an area with grass. Which animals did the most children like the best? Have the children vote for their favorite zoo animal and graph the results. When the children guess the animals the child gets to eat the animal cracker!ДЎ0 silly monkeys, scratching on their knees.ДЎ0 munching elephants, eating peanuts one by one.ДЎ0 leaping tigers, performing in the shows,ДЎ0 pink flamingos, standing on their toes.ДЎ0 grouchy bears, trying to get some sleep.ДЎ0 galloping zebras, all living in the zoo. Invite a child to pick a card and act out the animal for the other children to guess. Place zoo animal cards or animal crackers inside a bag or a bowl. The children chant ' Zookeeper, zookeeper what do you see?' Then pick out a zoo animal card from the bag and say 'I see an elephant walking next to me.' (aВ snakeВ slithering, a kangaroo jumping, a lion roaring, etc.) Children are standing apart with enough room to move around. Place the zoo animal cards inside a basket or bag. Zoo Animals Circle Time and Large Group Activities Encourage your children to use the blocks and sticks to build cages for the animals. Set out zoo animals (plastic or stuffed) in the block area. Place the cards face down on the table and let children find the matching pairs. Continue until you have five animals on the board.

Let another child take out a card and place it at the end of the sentence. Next place the word card 'and' beside the first animal. Ask one child to pick out a card from the bag and place it on the board in the empty space. Write the sentence 'I went to the zoo and saw a _' or for younger children ' I see a _' on the board. Let children practice writing the names of the zoo animals.

Review the zoo animals names and let children match the word with the pictures. Use our 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo activities and game to count zoo animals.Д¬ut the Zoo Animals Word Wall cards in to two pieces (animal picture and animal word). Together, sayВ and read the names of the animals. Use our zoo animal printables or word wall cards, and place the animals on the board. Read the book 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo and let children name the different zoo animals. Encourage children to glue animal pictures cut out from magazines or their own drawn creations into their books, and then make up stories and share them with the group. Provide each child with several sheets paper, folded and stapled into a book. Let childrenВ cut outВ the animals and their habitats to make zoo animal collages. Place them on a table with craft paper, scissors, and glue sticks. Zoo AnimalsД¬ollect lots of natural history magazines from second-hand bookstores and thrift shops. Write the letters Z, O, O on index cards and let children spell the word zoo. Let children practice writing the letter вЂњzвЂќ and the word zoo. Provide toy zoo animals and let children feed the zoo animal with the correct food. Jump like a kangaroo.Д¬ut out pictures of different types of food that zoo animals eat (leaves, fruit, meat, etc.) and glue on to construcion paper to make cards. 'The animal I'm thinking of is very tall, has four legs, and brown spots.' a giraffe! Encourage children to act the animal out. Let children guess what zoo animal you are thinking of and give them hints. Discuss with children why they think zoos were created and how the animals get to the zoo. Talk about the differences and similarities between the two classifications. Make a chart on the board with the title 'Zoo Animals' and 'Not a Zoo Animal.' Ask students to name different animals and c lassify the animal as either a zoo animal or not. What were their favorites? Talk to children about the different habitats that animals need and how zoos have to make their surroundings seem real for the animals. If I ran the zoo I would _.В Have students draw a picture illustrating a zookeeper at work and write about it.ДЄsk children if they have ever been to a zoo and what animals they saw.

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