BW Dear zoo story and activities

 

Language and Literacy

Hello everyone and I hope you are all keeping well! This week I have chosen the lovely book Dear zoo by Rod Campbell as a learning theme and some activities to go along with the story. 

In preschool we love to use books to build on learning and as an opportunity to build language and knowledge, lots of activities can be done based on one story and offers extended learning in many areas.

First I have attached a you tube video of Dear zoo for all the boys and girl's to look at below 

https://youtu.be/ZqGYWRHOV6E (Link to the story )

After you have listened to the lovely story you can do some nice activities based on the story 😀

1. Draw the animals from the story try to remember what animals were in the story, cut them out and colour them in,  talk about where the animals come from and the food they like , their size and sounds , a great opportunity to introduce some new vocabulary and build literacy and language. 

2. Collect stones and make story stones by drawing each animal on a stone and try retelling the story to a grown up,  this is so much fun and you can do many stories this way, this is a great way to build on literacy skills and drawing on stones helps build hand eye coordination too!

3. Maybe you have some toy animals at home, see how many you can collect from the story! If you don't have them all don't worry,  instead make the ones you don't have with some playdough!

Have fun and as always it's important to do your best, if you want why not send some pictures of your animal creations by PM ! I would love to see some of your beautiful creations!

Natasha and Team