Reptile Watching and Weekly Wrap-up

After we learned how reptiles are cold blooded,

they have leathery skin, and they hatch from an egg,

We went to the zoo to check them out.

We go to the zoo often,

So it's been fun to learn about different types of animals.

Now every time we go, we focus on one area.

We also brought Miss Sassy's Great-Grandma.

She pointed out so many fun and different things as well!

It was so fun to notice all of the heat lamps,

and how the reptiles moved.

We spent ages looking at the lizards, snakes, and turtles.

In fact, it was the only thing she even cared about.

It was a fun trip and a great way to make a memory.

Here are some other awesome reptile ideas:

The first is from My Creative Family
She created a Pond in a box

I love this idea, it is essentially a sensory box that can be put back into a shoebox.
Fun, imaginative, not messy!

The next is from Kelly at Here Comes the Sun.
She did a whole Alligator learning theme.

You can see her daughter made an alligator
out of a clothes pin.
She linked it to literature and math by singing:
5 Little Monkeys Swinging on a Tree,
Teasing Mr. Alligator, Can't Catch me!

The last idea comes from Lines Across My Face
She created Chameleon Pipe Cleaner Animals.

She read A Color All His Own,
and made several different color chameleons.
She shows you exactly how to make these cool guys.

Here are some other ideas I found on the blogs I follow,
and I pinterest.

Zoo Puppet Show

Now Presenting...

Zoo Animal Puppets

This was a concrete way for Miss Sassy to review

Zoo Animals before our field trip.

 

Miss Sassy had a great time creating her puppets

I cut out the silhouette of the animals,

and she colored them and glued on the extra pieces.

We used foam paper and school glue.

Here is what they ended up looking like:

 

This was a very interactive puppet show,

She kept talking and talking to me while presenting her puppets.

Then she insisted that I take a turn.

Which was perfect,

because I could review all the things we learned this week.

We used our Veggie Box to make our puppet theater.
I cut a medium sized rectangle out of the bottom.

We glued construction paper to the back,
and used pieces of her butterfly wings for the sun and bushes.

I made some curtains by folding over 2" of
wrapping paper and gluing it, pulling my ribbon through it and gluing the ribbon to the top of the box.

What have you done with puppets?

Animals All Over The World

To Kick Off Our Zoo Theme

We Wanted to Find Out

Where Do All of the Animals

in the Zoo Come From?

I rolled out different colors of play-doh

To look like the seven continents.

I used a knife to give them shape.

Poor Antarctica, I kinda left him out.

I put zoo animal pictures on tooth picks

We put the animals in their native continents.

We started with North America

I made it in Pink, her favorite color, so she could identify with it.

We talked about how the animals

Were spread all over the world.

And the Zoo is a place where we can find all of them!

Editors Note: So I know this looks super educational,
but Miss Sassy had a ball.
After we were finished she had all of them talking to one another.
And she cried when I put Antarctica away too soon. (Who knew!)

For our Zoo Animal Theme we made a Side Walk Zoo, and a Zoo Puppet Show.

We found the perfect book to connect with our learning:

 Charlie at the Zoo
By Marcus Pfister
The same author as Rainbow Fish

It is about a curious duck who goes to the zoo.
It has little highlighted maps for each animal.

Here are our other books were reading this week:

A Sick Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead

It's about a zoo keeper who gets sick
and all of the animals help him get better.

The Zoo
By Suzy Lee

A little girl goes to the zoo and finds magic!

1, 2, 3, to the Zoo
By Eric Carle

Another great book by Eric Carle

Carousel

By Donald Crews

There is a Carousel at our zoo.

This book captures the essence of the Carousel

And Miss Sassy feels like she on a Carousel when she reads it.

Happy reading!

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