Theme table accessories:

Any zoo animal soft toys

Plastic zoo animals toys

Pictures of zoo animals attached to toilet rolls or cardboard

Zoo cookies and wrappers

Pictures and posters of zoo animals

Water bowls/food bowls for animals

Shape of the week

Homework sheet

Our theme for the week is: “Zoo”

Shape: Triangle

Colour: Green

Number: 6

Letter: “Pp”

Your child will be encouraged to

reach the following milestones:

- Demonstrate flexibility and adapt his

behaviour to different events, social

situations and changes in routines.

- Distinguish one sound from another.

- Is able to concentrate for 10 minutes.

- Is able to copy a / using play dough and

crayons - Demonstrate the

control necessary to hold an object in a

fixed position, including the correct

posture when sitting and standing. - Can

untie shoelaces.

- Paint, draw and describe the picture.

Our poem of the week is: “The Wheels on the

Bus”

Theme discussion Side activities Perception Creative activity

Gross motor Language and story

Mon

Zoo Facts (See theme discussion

below)

Poem (The wheels on the

bus)

Bible

Weather

Days of the week

Months of the year

Collage

Colour your Owl

Collage an Owl using bird seeds

Number 6

Use beans to make the number 6

Use beans to make a

/

Music

Use a tin with a lid. Find any objects

that makes a rattling sound e.g beans, rocks, popcorn

kernels, etc. Make a shaker

instrument. Use your shaker to

make music.

Triangle Walk

Use green chalk and draw a large triangle outside.

Walk on the lines of the triangle.

Count how many sides the triangle

has.

Read a story to the learners

Coming and Going

Ask questions about the story

LoAs LFT 4 LFT 4 SSM 13 (e)

Tue Crocodile Facts

Bible

Weather

Days of the week

Months of the year

Water play

Use a large bucket. Fill it with water.

Optional: add blue food colouring, bubble bath/dish

washing soap Add plastic animals to play

with.

Triangle

Use foil and paste it onto the shape of the

week (triangle)

Toilet roll Monkey

Use brown paint or brown crayons and

make your toilet roll brown

Newspaper toss

Use your green triangle that you

drew. Scrunch up

newspaper and toss it into your triangle shape.

Letter P is for popcorn

Pop some popcorn and use glue or green icing to stick

your popcorn onto your letter P

LoAs MR 2 MS 3 BC 1

Wed Panther Facts

Poem (The wheels on the

bus)

Bible

Weather

Days of the week

Months of the year

Fantasy play

Crocodile hands

Use green or blue plastic washing up gloves with

claws drawn using a black marker

Science and discovery

Cold Climate Animal

*Please see instructions

Toilet roll Monkey

Colour your monkey’s face, feet

and tummy

Bats and balls

Use a bat and ball and play cricket.

Letter P

Use play dough to make the letter P

Look for items inside the

house or outside that starts with the letter P.

LoAs LFT 4 BC 1 LSL 3 Thurs Lemur Facts

Bible

Weather

Days of the week

Months of the year

Crocodile Pegs

Use wooden pegs and colour them green using green food colouring or

paint. Place cut up pieces of pipe cleaners/ear buds/

pom poms/matches as food and use the pegs to pick up

the food.

Measuring Zoo animals

Provide your child with measurement

manipulatives to measure plastic zoo

animals.

Toilet roll Monkey

Cut and paste your monkey’s face, feet

and tummy onto your toilet roll

Tie and untie shoe laces

Practise tying and untying your shoe

laces

Read a story to the learners

The Kind Moon

Ask questions about the story

LoAs MR 2 MS 3

LFT 4 MS 3

UEM 10

Fri Zoo Keeper Facts

Poem (The wheels on the

bus)

Bible

Weather

Days of the week

Months of the year

Painting

Use wool and paint snake tracks or paint a paper

plate green and cut it into a curly snake.

Counting and grouping

-Counting zoo

animal toys -Group objects

according to colour -Group objects

according to height

Box construction

Use a foam cup. Paint your cup

orange to make a tiger or yellow to make a Cheetah.

Use a black marker to draw on spots or stripes, eyes and a

nose.

Free play outside

Ball games Racing games

Hang and swing from trees

Rhyme

There is a wide-eyed owl With a pointed nose

With two pointed ears And claws for his toes He lives high in a tree When he looks at you

He flaps his wings And says “Whoo, whoo,

whoo”

LoAs LFT 4 MR 2 LSL 3

Theme discussions:

Crocodiles can stay underwater for 10 to 15 minutes

Crocodile skin is used in fashion

for shoes, belts and handbags.

.

Art example:

Materials needed:

Toilet roll

Brown paint/crayons

Paintbrush

School glue

Pipe cleaners or sticks for arms

Monkey face and feet template

Monkey template for toilet roll

Science and discovery

Cold Climate Animal

The animals that live in the polar regions are also sometimes found in Zoo’s . Below is a short list of a few well -known arctic animals.

Arctic Fox

Arctic Hare

Spotted Seal

Arctic Wolf

Beluga Whale

Walrus

Snowshoe Hare

Snowy Owl

Materials need:

Spoon

Shortening (the animal fat)

Two plastic bags (the animal skin)

Two ice cubes (the cold)

Approach to Animal Science Experiment

Scoop out a tablespoon of shortening

Put the shortening in the palm of your child’s hand

Place hands – one with shortening and one without shortening – in the sandwich bags

Now comes the ice cubes or crushed ice. Place on the outside of the bags on each hand.

Have the child hug the ice cube with his hand.

What do you observe?

Why does the shortening or fat keep the cold out?

Science Behind the Activity

Shortening is a fat that insulates the cold. It is a thermoregulator, which means it keeps the warmth

in and the cold out. Think about the fat substance. It is dense, r ight? It has low thermal conductivity

relative to water. So, even when in super cold water, the fat maintains its temperature. Fat doesn’t

require a lot of blood supply so blood stays closer to the skins surface, the surface closest to the

coldness

Language

Materials needed:

Letter P template

Popcorn

School glue or Icing

Box construction

Example

Number 6

Coming and going

There came to our fields a pair of birds that had never built a nest nor seen a winter. How beautiful was everything! The

fields were full of flowers and the grass was growing tall, and the bees were humming everywhere. Then one of the birds

began singing, and the other bird said, "Who told you to sing?" And he answered, "The flowers told me, and the bees told

me, and the winds and leaves told me, and the blue sky told me, and you told me to sing." Then his mate answered,

"When did I tell you to sing?" And he said, "Every time you brought in tender grass for the nest, and every time your soft

wings fluttered off again for hair and feathers to line the nest." Then his mate said, "What are you singing about?" And he

answered, "I am singing about everything and nothing. It is because I am so happy that I sing."

By and by five little speckled eggs were in the nest, and his mate said, "Is there anything in all the world as pretty as my

eggs?" Then they both looked down on some people that were passing by and pitied them because they were not birds.

In a week or two, one day, when the father bird came home, the mother bird said, "Oh, what do you think has

happened?" "What?" "One of my eggs has been peeping and moving!" Pretty soon another egg moved under her feathers,

and then another and another, till five little birds were hatched! Now the father bird sang louder and louder than ever.

The mother bird, too, wanted to sing, but she had no time, and she turned her song into work. So hungry were these little

birds that it kept both parents busy feeding them. Away each one flew. The moment the little birds heard their wings

fluttering among the leaves, five little yellow mouths flew open wide, so that nothing could be seen but five yellow

mouths!

"Can anybody be happier?" said the father bird to the mother bird. "We will live in this tree always, for there is no sorrow

here. It is a tree that always bears joy."

Soon the little birds were big enough to fly, and great was their parents' joy to see them leave the nest and sit crumpled

up upon the branches. There was then a great time, the two old birds talking and chatting to make the young ones go

alone! In a little time they had learned to use their own wings, and they flew away and away, and found their own food,

and built their own nests, and sang their own songs with joy.

Then the old birds sat silent and looked at each other, until the mother bird said, "Why don't you sing?" And he answered,

"I can't sing - I can only think and think." "What are you thinking of?" "I am thinking how everything changes. The leaves

are falling off from this tree, and soon there will be no roof over our heads; the flowers are all going; last night there was a

frost; almost all the birds have flown away. Something calls me, and I feel as if I would like to fly away."

"Let us fly away together!"

Then they arose silently, and, lifting themselves far up in the air, they looked to the north. Far away they saw the snow

coming. They looked to the south. There they saw flowers and green leaves. All day they flew, and all night they flew and

flew, till they found a land where there was no winter - where flowers always blossom, and birds always sing.

The Kind Moon

Once upon a time, a long, long while ago, the Sun, the Wind, and the Moon were three sisters, and their mother was a

pale, lovely Star that shone, far away, in the dark evening sky.

One day their uncle and aunt, who were no more or less than the Thunder and Lightning, asked the three sisters to have

supper with them, and their mother said that they might go. She would wait for them, she said, and would not set until all

three returned and told her about their pleasant visit.

So the Sun in her dress of gold, the Wind in a trailing dress that rustled as she passed, and the Moon in a wonderful gown

of silver started out for the party with the Thunder and Lightning. Oh, it was a supper to remember! The table was spread

with a cloth of rainbow. There were ices like the snow on the mountain tops, and cakes as soft and white as clouds, and

fruits from every quarter of the earth. The three sisters ate their fill, especially the Sun and the Wind, who were very

greedy, and left not so much as a crumb on their plates. But the Moon was kind and remembered her mother. She hid a

part of her supper in her long, white fingers to take home and share with her mother, the Star.

Then the three sisters said good-bye to the Thunder and Lightning and went home. When they reached there, they found

their mother, the Star, waiting and shining for them as she had said she would.

"What did you bring me from the supper?" she asked.

The Sun tossed her head with all its yellow hair in disdain as she answered her mother.

"Why should I bring you anything?" she asked. "I went out for my own pleasure and not to think of you."

It was the same with the Wind. She wrapped her flowing robes about her and turned away from her mother.

"I, too, went out for my own entertainment," she said, "and why should I think of you, mother, when you were not with

me?"

But it was very different with the Moon who was not greedy and selfish as her two sisters, the Sun and the Wind, were.

She turned her pale sweet face toward her mother, the Star, and held out her slender hands.

"See, mother," cried the Moon, "I have brought you part of everything that was on my plate. I ate only half of the feast for

I wanted to share it with you."

So the mother brought a gold plate and the food that her unselfish daughter, the Moon, had brought her heaped the plate

high. She ate it, and then she turned to her three children, for she had something important to say to them. She spoke

first to the Sun.

"You were thoughtless and selfish, my daughter," she said. "You went out and enjoyed yourself with no thought of one

who was left alone at home. Hereafter you shall be no longer beloved among men. Your rays shall be so hot and burning

that they shall scorch everything they touch. Men shall cover their heads when you appear, and they shall run away from

you."

And that is why, to this day, the Sun is hot and blazing.

Next the mother spoke to the Wind.

"You, too, my daughter, have been unkind and greedy," she said. "You, also, enjoyed yourself with no thought of any one

else. You shall blow in the parching heat of your sister, the Sun, and wither and blast all that you touch. No one shall love

you any longer, but all men will dislike and avoid you."

And that is why, to this day, the Wind, blowing in hot weather, is so unpleasant.

But, last, the mother spoke to her kind daughter, the Moon.

"You remembered your mother, and were unselfish," she said. "To those who are thoughtful of their mother, great

blessings come. For all time your light shall be cool, and calm, and beautiful. You shall wane, but you shall wax again. You

shall make the dark night bright, and all men shall call you blessed."

And that is why, to this day, the Moon is so cool, and bright, and beautiful.