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Zoo
Shape: Triangle
Color: Yellow Number: 3
Letter: O
May 6-10,2013
Circle Time Topics:
• What is a Zoo?
• The letter O
• The number 3
• Triangle
• Animals that live in the Zoo?
Monday:
• Daily calendar, days of the week song
• The weather chart
• Talk about what is a Zoo?
Songs:
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• The animals at the Zoo
• Keeper in the Zoo
• Triangles, Triangles
Tuesday:
• Daily calendar, months of the year
• Weather chart
• Talk about the number 3 and the letter O
Wednesday:
• Daily calendar, The animals at the Zoo
• Weather chart
• What are triangles/ do we have any around the classroom?
Thursday:
• Daily calendar, Keeper in the Zoo
• Weather chart
• Talk about what color is a giraffe, recognizing the color yellow
Friday:
• Daily calendar, Triangles, Triangles
• Weather chart
• Talk about what are the kids favorite animals and why?
Language Arts/ Writing
Friday:
• Writing an animal fact
• The kids will make an animal and they
will write a fact about the animal on the
back of it.
Wednesday:
• Zoo sentences
• The kids will get a sheet with blocks and
they will cut it out and make a sentence
with the help of their teacher.
Tuesday:
• Practicing and upper and lower case O
• They will get a manuscript sheet that
will have some of them to trace but
then they will have to try to them by
themselves.
Monday:
• Kangaroo syllable hopping
• The kids will get word and they will have
to hop and figure out how many syllables
the word has.
Thursday:
• Look! "Giraffe" said the snake
• They will do sentence strips on the
board.
Math/Science/Social Science Monday:
• Gorilla hand activity
• The kids will trace their hands with
paint on a cut out had of a gorilla and
write how big their hand and their age
Tuesday:
• Counting dots from a precut giraffe
• The kids will get an giraffe and they will
count how many dots the animal has and
write on a worksheet
Wednesday:
• Animal characteristics graph
• The kids will get a graph and check if
the animal has fur, feathers or scales
Thursday:
• Zoo food
• The kids will learn about the different
type of foods the animals at the Zoo
eat, they will match the food with the
appropriate animal
Friday:
• Zoo patterns
• The kids will create different patterns
with animal toys
Arts & Crafts Monday:
• Giving Zebras stripes
• They will cut our a zebra and use tape
to give the zebra stripes
Tuesday:
• Making an Octopus
• They will use the letter O and cute it
out and trace their hands and cute that
out and use that as the tentacles
Wednesday:
• Paper plate lion
• They will use a paper plate and make a
lion face they will use yarn for the
whiskers and draw their face in
Thursday:
• Making a giraffe
• They will use construction paper and cut
out parts to make a giraffe
Friday:
• Zoo collage
• They will make a collage with their fa-
vorite zoo animal
Curriculum Enhancement Monday:
• Using computers
• But only allowed to go to certain web-
sites.
• abcmouse.com
Tuesday:
• Learning Spanish
• Learning their alphabet
Wednesday:
• Using computers
• But only allowed to go to certain web-
sites.
• Sesamestreet.org
Thursday:
• Learning Spanish
• Learning how to count 1-10
Friday:
• Using computers
• But only allowed to go to certain web-
sites.
• Nickjr.com
Learning
Centers
Math
They will get cut out animals and a pattern strip
and they will create a pattern with the different
animals.
The kids will get a 1-5 counting grind and get
Zoo animal stickers and match the number of
stickers to the number that corresponds.
Language
They will do sentence strips that will start with
“I can see a” and then they will fill in the blank
and say the name of the animal they see.
Zoo animals syllables, the kids will get three bas-
kets that will look like cages, the baskets will
get number 1-3 and they will have different cut
out animals and they will count how many sylla-
bles the animals name has, then they will place it
in the right cage.
Learning
Centers
Library
The kids will sit at the carpet and be read the
story Zoo-looking
They will also read Going to the Zoo
For both books they will have question like have
you gone to the zoo? What animals did you see?
Questions that relate to the book.
Puzzles and or/game
They will play bingo using Zoo animals and they
will have colored circles to cover the spaces.
They will do a scavenger hunt around the class-
room to find different animals they will do it in
teams, they will start all together but they will
get different clues and each of the teams will
find a animal.
Learning
Centers
Arts & Crafts
Make a paper lion plate, they will use precut yarn
and glue it around the border of the plate and
use googly eyes and crayons to decorate the
face.
They will make a painting of a monkey using their
hands as the paint brushes.
Science and or/ Social Studies
There will be a tables with different foods and the
kids will get asked questions about it for example
“Do you think a monkey eats a banana or a penguin?”
the questions will let them know about the food the
animals eat.
The kids will do a monkey obstacle course and they
will have the playground decorated as a jungle and
they will climb the monkey bars as if they were
branches and then they would be explained why the
monkeys climb trees and about their habitat.
Math Animal Characteristics
Kindergarten readiness skills: Counting, recognizing different char-
acteristics
Objective: for kids to learn how to do a graph, and for them to be
able to identify the numbers 1-10
Attention getter: they will have a monkey puppet tell them what they
are going to do.
They kids will get pictures of different animals in the table. They will
also get a chart to color in with different characteristics of the ani-
mals. The kids will look at the animals and see how they look. They will
have a chart that they will color in the characteristics in and after
they look at all the animals their teachers will ask them what was a
common thing between them and have a conversation about that. Then
they will go to the carpet and put all their data in a bigger chart for
the whole class to see.
Closure: The kids will get to go to the playground but they will have
to count with the monkey puppet before they do.
Supplies
• Monkey puppet
• Animal pictures
• Line graph
• Crayons
• The big graph
Social Studies Zoo Keeper
Kindergarten readiness skills: Learning about their community helpers
Objective: For the kids to know what a zoo keeper is, and also what they do.
Attention getter: Sing “Keeper in the Zoo” (farmer in the dell tune)
Have the kids sit in the carpet crisscross applesauce, then tell them today
we will read the book “Good night Gorilla” by Peggy Rathmann
Then ask if they know what a community helper is? Is a zoo keeper is a
community helper? What does he/she do?
Have a cut out of a man tapes to the white board and a bucket next to it
and ask the kids what are things that a zoo keeper needs, and when they
you give an answer like a shovel have them go to the bucket and find it and
put in on the cut out. Do that till all the equipment in the bucket is put on
the cut out
Closure: Have the kids go back to the carpet and sit crisscross applesauce,
then ask them: What does a zoo keeper do? Where does he work? What
are some things he uses? Do you think a zoo keepers job is important?
Supplies
• “Good night Gorilla”
• Cut out man
• Cut out supplies for zoo keeper
• Bucket
• Coloring sheet for zoo keeper
• Blank piece of paper
• Crayons
• Markers
Arts and Craft Polar Bear
Kindergarten readiness skills: learning their animals
Objective: For the kids to learn how a polar bear looks
Attention getter: Showing them the example and ask them to roar like a
bear
Closure: Ask t the kids if they like polar bears? If so why? And if they
have ever seen a polar bear at the Zoo
Supplies
• Shaving cream
• Glue
• Plastic bowl
• Measuring spoons
• Paint brush
• Paper plate
• Googly eyes
• 2 round cotton makeup pads
• Oreo cookie
In a plastic bow, have the children mix together the 2 tablespoons of
glue and 4 tablespoons of shaving cream. Using a paint brush, have the
children paint white puffy paint all over the bottom side of a paper
plate. Let dry. When dry, have the children glue the googly eyes onto
their paper plate. Let dry. Then, have the children glue 2 make up
pads at the top of the paper plate. These will be Polar Bear ears. Let
dry. After that, have the children paste the Oreo cookie at the bot-
tom of the paper plate. This will be the Polar Bear nose. Let dry