Classifying Vertebrate Animals
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Letter Z: Zoo Animal Activities
Saturday, October 3, 2015
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Vito is 22 months old.
Vito is currently obsessing over his Schleich zoo animals. I just started collecting these animal figures early this year as I can see that both of my boys can benefit from it. I decided to put together zoo-themed activities for the little Vito, an opportunity to learn and explore the letter ‘z’.
Dear Zoo Story Basket
Vito loves this Dear Zoo book! We read it over and over again each day, and he specifically loves opening and closing the flaps to discover the animal hidden in it.
Zoo Animal Tracks
My boys can’t get enough of playdough, and we used our Schleich animals to create beautiful tracks! It was a total hit!
Animal Skin Covers
And who wouldn’t love skin patterns! It amazes me how Vito can match the animals with its cover! I only prepared 6 of his favourite animals and he is working on them everyday. As we progress, I’ll add up some more to make it challenging for him.
Letter Z Craft
Our letter of the week (craft) is usually hanged in the wall for a week’s view (for recognition) LOL.
Animals Clean Up
Original plan was to wash and brush these animals. But it was cold and we couldn’t do it indoors so I ended up giving him the wipes instead. He enjoyed this!
Zoo Animals Matching Cards
Something that he do everyday as well, matching the figures with the cards! This activity is for object recognition, discrimination and exactness. You can download your FREE copy from here.
The images in the cards are from Schleich.
Letter Z Object Basket
Our object basket is typically for letter recognition and phonics sounds.
And that’s all about our fun adventure of learning the letter z sound and zoo animals. Stay tuned for our next letter sound of the week… something to do with autumn! And yes, please don’t forget to pin this for later!
Other letter sound we’ve done:
FREE Zoo Animals Matching Cards for Toddlers
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Vito is 22 months
Vito is in to matching these days! Whenever he sees an object that has a match on books, he would immediately get it and put it together. We started matching activities earlier with our Farm Animal Activities, and since we moved to zoo animals, I also created a set of matching cards for our Schleich toy figures (all Schleich images). So far we’re only using the tiger, jaguar, alligator, hippopotamus, elephant and lion figures.
Zoo Animal Tracks
Saturday, September 12, 2015
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If you are looking for a simple activity that will keep your kids hooked for a longer period of time, this is one I highly recommend. Recently I bought a few Schleich animals from a local store because it was on sale. Since Vito looooves animals, I whipped this activity in an instance, just in time to make use of our white PlayDoh.
Materials needed: different animal figures with detailed tracks (I highly recommend Schleich) and playdough (PlayDoh).
One by one, create tracks of your animals in the dough. Vito was fascinated of the tracks! He wanted to do it by himself
Here’s a closer look of the tracks. How cool is it that they’re all so detailed!
Can you identify which animals they belong to?
Yay! We didn’t have enough dough though. But Vito played with this for a long time! We’ll definitely do this more often.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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And because I wanted to integrate Vito into our activities, we made some wormy meal (unhealthy!). I made Vito hammer a few Oreo cookies… and use it as soil.
Then we added some wormy jellies for everyone to feast on!
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DIY Animal Puzzle
Monday, June 1, 2015
But one time, I came across Montessori wooden puzzles that I really really want Mavi to have. My problem at that time is that I don't have access to Montessori shops. So what I did was I cut out each parts of the animal puzzle in the book as seen on the picture below, and made Mavi form it just like a puzzle.
Mavi working on a frog puzzle |
Instead of just putting them together, I made him glue them on an outline which I made as a guide.
He was showing me the frog's face |