Zoo Animals

It's been so much fun to study and learn about zoo animals this week!  We've gotten to do some messy crafts with noodles, paper plates, popsicle sticks, markers, glue, stickers, and pom poms to help us learn about the letter "N" and the number #4 as well!  Hope you enjoy our pics from the week and are able to check out a few of our videos from this week too.  I especially recommend listening to the bear hunt book.  It's one of my personal favorites!

Book "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" as told by Michael Rosen - Your kids loved this video!

Storybots Letter "N" Video

ABC Mouse Letter "N" Video

B-L-A-C-K spells black song

Starting our day with morning table top centers.

We read the book, "Put Me in the Zoo" and then created and named our own leopards similar to the ones in the book.  Look for these out in the hallway!

We used noodles to "trace" the letter "Nn" in one of our independent activities.

We "read" our color words along with our zoo poem and then traced the color words with different colors.

We listened to the book, "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" as read by the author, Michael Rosen.  (Check out the video above for the link.  The kids loved all his sound effects!)  After reading the book, we went on a hunt ourselves but for letters instead of bears.  Look at all these letters they found hidden all around the room!

They looked high and low...

 We found quite a few...

 There are still a few still hiding in the toys that we'll have to look for next week!

We put stickers on our letter "N" for Narwhals, and then counted and traced the stickers.

We also traced the shape and the word "diamond".

We hunted for shapes and then colored them with our color word key.

We ordered the numbers 1-4 and then placed enough stickers to coordinate with each number.

 We hunted for the diamonds and used our dotters to identify them.

We also practiced making the number "4", finding the number, and also counting the right amount of stickers to make 4.

We made our Noah's arks to go along with animal theme and Bible story for the week.

These kiddos used different sized popsicle sticks to make an ark and then put animals stickers all around it.  Great activity for fine motor skills and a creative outlet for these kiddos!

Our arks turned out so cute!

Even though they look upside down, these were also some monkey hand prints we made this week as well just for fun.  :)

Last week, the kiddos were able to color with markers on coffee filters and then spray them with water to make the colors run.  Once they dried, I glued them to these apples, put their picture inside and wrote on them to create this final product.  So cute!  Check these out in the hallway as well!