Ideas to support at home
Dear Zoo
- Share the story and talk about the different animals. Ask your child “why can’t you have an elephant/lion/snake etc as a pet?”
- Make your own Dear Zoo book with flaps. Think of different animals to go in the book. Talk about why the animal wouldn’t make a good pet.
- Talk about your perfect pet. Is it a puppy? Or a different animal. How would you look after it? make a list of things you would need.
- Draw animals. Encourage your child to add details such a ears, whiskers etc
- Find out facts about favourite animals
- Sort toy animals eg animals with 4 legs, animals with fur
- Count toy animals
- Make homes for toy animals with construction kits, or in the garden with sticks etc
- Learn the names of baby animals
Winter
- Make ice. Freeze different objects in it and work out how to get them out.
- Play with ice in the bath
- Talk about Winter and notice things that happen eg the weather (cold, frosty, icy, snow, rain, windy, stormy
- Make Winter pictures with eg glue and salt/sugar
Valentine’s Day
- Make a secret card for somebody you love. Have a go at writing your name, and using scissors to cut out heart shapes
Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year)
- Watch the CBeebies videos and talk about different celebrations
- Make dragon pictures, and shakers with bottles filled with cereal/seeds/beans
- Learn the Nursery rhyme “Two Tigers”
- Make envelopes by folding paper; put money or chocolate coins in to give to family/friends
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Two Tigers
Two little tigers,
Two little tigers,
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One has no eyes (or: One has no ears),
One has no tail,
Very strange,
Very strange.
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