ZOO

CHD146 Chris

BOOK
1,2,3 TO THE ZOO By. Eric Carle

STANDARDS OF LEARNING FOR EACH DOMAIN

All the activities for kids will be based on Virginias Foundation Blocks for Early Learning.

Thematic Concepts (3~4 year-olds)

LANGUAGE/LITERACY DOMAIN

Sample activity: Read Poems, sing songs and take field trips to build vocabulary Goal: Build vocabulary through the play Teacher Resource: List of books at the reading center The Elephant Song - Cool Tunes for Kids by Eric Herman - YouTube

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin and Eric Carle Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Bill Martin and Eric Carle Curious George Visits the Zoo Margret and H.A Rey Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Eileen Christelow We're Going on a Bear Hunt I Spy Animals Jean Marzollo Helen Oxenbury

Giraffes Can't Dance Giles Andreae

Baby Zoo Animals Jane Katirgis

Color Zoo Lois Ehlert My Animal Book Anne Millard

The Right Number of Elephants Jeff Sheppard Elephants (Wild Ones) Jill Anderson K Is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo

Feeding Time at the Zoo

Sherry Shahan

Zoo Keepers (Community Helpers) Tami Deedrick

COGNITIVE DOMAIN

Cognitive Development : Childrens development of knowledge and skills, which help them to think about and understand the world around them Sample activity: Block play Goal: Enhance cognitive skills by challenging children to figure out how to build a zoo

CREATIVE DOMAIN

Creative Domain Sample Activity : Create an animal mask by using paper plate Goal : Develop creative thinking skills by designing their own animal mask

Materials needed: paper, scissor, crayons

MATHEMATICAL DOMAIN

Sample activity: Provide collections of three to five objects (buttons, plastic animals, plastic lids) that encourage counting :Feeding the monkey Goal: Improve childrens eye-hand coordination as well as their counting skills

SCIENCE DOMAIN

Sample activity: Ask children to bring baby picture. Compare their baby picture to the child. What has Changed? What is the same? Show students pictures of animal babies and adults. What has changed? What is same?
Goal: Learn science concept by identifying the comparison and the stages of growth

BABY ANIMALS ??

SOCIAL DOMAIN

Sample activity: Have children add to a class list one choice they made when selecting their snack for school. Let kids choose the collect food for the each animals.
Goal: Teach kids about the animals what they eat. Teach about carnivore and herbivore.

PHYSICAL DOMAIN

Sample activity: Provide opportunities for children to imitate animal movements, especially those that require using the arms to support the body weight (bear crawl/ walk, seal walk, crap walk).
Goal: Develop physical stamina and muscle for their age.

PHYSICAL DOMAIN

PERSON DOMAIN

Sample activity: Have child-size cleaning materials available and teach children how to use them. Children will be the zoo keeper to clean the zoo for the animals. Goal: Teach responsibility to keep their place clean by themselves.

THEMATIC LEARNING CENTER

SOURCES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yihq8BIhL9c http://www.earlychildhood.virginia.gov/