Introducing Toddlers to Animals in Land, Water and Air
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Introducing Wild Animals to Toddlers
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
VIto is 32 months old.
As we continue our wild animals exploration, the boys and I watched documentary shows in Netflix about animals in Africa. Vito enjoyed watching the shows and kept on naming the animals that he can identify. With this, we worked on vocabulary words by identifying other wild animals that he’s not familiar with like gorilla, panther and rhinoceros. We used our Safari Toob Wild animals for this activity together with the matching cards we got from The Wise Owl.
Animals and their Covers
Monday, August 1, 2016
Farm Animals Sort & Play
Monday, May 16, 2016
When I was planning for a Farm Unit, I wanted it to be simple because it’ll be the week of our arrival from our trip. This means, we are all tired (especially me!), and I need time to do all the unpacking. So my aim is still to provide activities to Vito with less preparation.
Now, I made these playdough last month and yes, they’re still good! The main objective of this play is to sort out the animal figures from Safari Toob and Shleich according to their “habitat”.
Investigating Animal Tracks and {Learn & Play Link Up}
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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We are continuing on our study of animal identification and learning more about their characteristics. After watching Deadly 60 series of Steve Backshall, we discovered that you can also identify animals by the tracks they make! So we used our favourite Schleich animal figures to test this. We randomly dipped the animals in the black paint and freely made tracks. Vito’s helping as well!
The tracks and trails an animal leaves can tell us the type of animals it is and whether it was walking or running, and you can also tell if it was by itself or with a group of other animals.
Footprints of animals are very tricky to identify unlike that of humans! But by thorough investigation, you can tell if the animal is hoofed or with paws or toes. To learn about the footprints of these animals, one must have a proper observation for these unique characteristics.
Animal tracks to note:
- Did the animals walk on 2 or 4 feet?
- Does the animal left a large or small track?
- Was it walking or running?
- Was it just one animal or followed by another?
Using our printable and the actual tracks, Mavi grouped the animals according to the characteristics of their footprints:
- Raccoon and bear have 4 toes front and 5 toes rear, they have claws.
- Dog, fox and wolf have 4 toes front, 5 toes rear and produces an egg shaped track
- Lion, lynx produces a round track with claws, 4 toes front and 5 toes rear
- Deer, elk have heart shaped tracks and has 4 toes front and 5 toes rear
And the highlight of this lesson is for them to see how their footprints look like!
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Thank you for taking time to read this post! You might as well visit our Zoo Animal Tracks post for another activity that involves playdough. It’s a not as messy as black paint
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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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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 them as soil.
Then we added some wormy jellies for everyone to feast on!
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