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