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Music & Songs : Animals > Zoo

Various poems involving zoo animals put to tunes of familiar songs.

Math : Animals > Zoo

Cookie cutters, animal crackers and strawberry baskets, all contribute to teaching counting, adding and sorting.

Zoo Rendezvous Lesson Plan

Students will:
-Listen to a fluent reading of the story.
-Choral read as a class.
-Define unfamiliar vocabulary.
-Identify parts of the story that are reality and fantasy.
-Find examples of reality and fantasy in other books.
-Write about their favorite parts of the story.
-Share writing with class.

“Dear Zookeeper”

The purpose of this lesson is to review zoo mammals and to introduce to the students how to write a letter in the basic format.

Zoo animal facts

After the students have researched their given animal they will create one fact sheet naming the animal’s habitat, distinguishing characteristics, eating type, country of origin, and any interesting facts that they find.