Wild Animals!

Books we read:

One Whole Day: Wolves

Grandfather Buffalo

Raccoon On His Own

All of these books are written by Jim Arnosky

We talked about different animals you can find in the wild, and identified pictures of some of the animals.

The craft we did was a wildlife scene.  Materials needed:  Blue construction paper (for the sky), green and/or brown construction paper (for ground), clipart images of different wild animals, glue, scissors, and crayons.

I had both green and brown paper out for the children to use.  It was fun too se how creative they all got.  Some cut the top of the green paper in strips about 1/4 of the way down the paper to create grass, others layered the brown and green, and some made green hills behind brown dirt.  You could also cut trees out of the brown and use the green to make the leaves.

Barnyard Fun!

This week for story time we started out by singing "Old McDonald had a Farm."  The children took turns holding up pictures of the animals we were singing about.  After that, we read Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo and Barn Sneeze (authors listed below). 

The books we read today:

Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo by Kelly Graves

 Barn Seeze by Karen B. Winnik

My First Visit to the Farm by J.M. Parramon and G. Sales

After reading those two books, we did an activity where we seperated pictures of animals into two columns telling if they live on a farm or in a zoo.  I also had the children tell me their favorite animals and where they live.  You could ask them what the animals have in commom and what the differences are.  Then we read  My First Visit to the Farm

We did a cute craft.  The children made either a puppy or a kitty mask.  All you need is crayons, glue, craft sticks, and paper masks for them to color.  (You could use paper plates and have them attach ears, etc.)