Dear Zoo 8-inch Monkey

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After reading the story with your class, you can use these Zoo Animals Pictures to prompt a discussion on what types of animals they are and what their key features are. The bright animal drawingsprovide more informationto the reader and 'clues'.Each animal is presented in a different way (e.g.a crate, box, basket),and each child can see a glimpse of the animal to enable them to predict whichanimal it might be. Keep up to date with our store, social media, blogs and live feeds where we will be introducing you to our partners, showcasing our toys and hearing the expert’s voice on all things childhood! We will regularly be trying out our toys, carrying out teacher led activities and just watching our children play to give you helpful hints and tips on how to get the most out of your toys and child’s learning development. Kids Craft Room shares how to make an articulated snake or this snake craft for kids is great for supporting scissor skills

Painted Animal Features– add any main colour features at this point (it’s really important to do this straight away if you have used your own colour mix of paint else you will find yourself spending ages trying to get the same colour as we did!) This Zoo Animals Writing Frames resource is perfect for budding writers. Each sheet comes with a lovely illustration to prompt all our little poets, writer and dreamers to conjure their own tales, rhymes, or write a lovely note to someone. Zoos provide a sanctuary for animals who have been mistreated. There are specialists who work in zoos to help those poorly or injured. The lift-the-flaps make it engaging and suspenseful read both ways. At home we used to make the animal sounds to match and depending on your group size, you can try that at school. With numbers over 30 in each group, I haven't gone there yet.

Young children will love lifting the flaps to discover the animals the zoo has sent – a monkey, a lion and even an elephant! But will they ever manage to send the perfect pet? Of course, all this talk of zoos and the animals they help protect, provides the perfect opportunity to include some non-fiction books too along with others for reference in your classroom. We'll often include books with an invitation to provide some visual support for learners.

Next, take a Nilla wafer and break it in half. Each half will become an ear. Put the ears on the side of the monkey’s head. Zoos offer a large range of jobs to different specialists. Zookeepers are highly trained and skilled in what they do, and offer exceptional personalised care to animals. They will have to follow strict procedures when handling individual species. We’ve gathered a lovely bunch of ‘Dear Zoo’ activities for nursery children above to help support your teaching of the brilliant storybook, ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. From picture cards, PowerPoints, games, posters and more, you're sure to find the perfect resource for you and your class. Incorporating these lovely activities after reading the storybook is a great way to engage children further with the story and help bring it to life! This interactive, lift-the-flap picturebook engages young children’s interest and invites them to take part from beginning to end. This is a classic story which keeps children guessing about what new pet will arrive next in the post, building their interest and enjoyment with each parcel.We made this toilet roll dog craft for Valentines Day but it could be easily adapted by not using the hearts. This review is for Dear Zoo: Noisy Book, which I think is the best of all the many versions and formats. It begins:

Spend time talking together about the cover picture, what they notice, and commenting on what the story might be about and where it takes place. Read aloud Details– Use a marker pen or some felt tip pens to draw on any details such as ears, tails, and use coloured felt tips to add any colour details such as the giraffe patches, noses, and the lion’s mane Our goal is to find toys that don’t place limitations on play, but inspire children to imagine, to create and to engage. But this book has a delightful extra feature. It is a “noisy” book! And I can assure you (because I’ve done this myself) that if you accidentally sit on it, you will find that it might trumpet at you, or chatter like a monkey, or even (and this is a bit scary if you’re not expecting it!) even hiss like a snake! While the children are lying quietly, you tell them that when the music starts and they wake up, they will be bouncing kangaroos, snappy crocodiles or tiny mice. You turn the music on for half a minute or so and then they all lie down asleep, ready to be turned into another animal.But my daughter really loves this book. And my husband told me to lighten up, get off my high horse and "it's only a kids' book. Don't worry about it." So maybe the lift up flaps are great. And how lovely it would be to have a zoo keep sending you animals on demand. Yeah, ok, it's a fab book.

If you are looking to put together a series of sessions based around the zoo, we have these brilliant resources available for you. These are all designed and created by teachers, so you know you are getting the quality lessons you want! When I "read" it, I had a box marked "From the Zoo" (as if the kids could read it) and I would just say the same line over and over again: If you have a copy of Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell you can read it and play with this craft at the same time.

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Is it munch munch munch? Or you can search the internet together to find out. What words can they think of to describe each animal? I love this paper plate frog craft from Fireflies and Mud Pies or you could make this cupcake liner frog from from Kids Activities Blog As a class, discuss the story, then list and recordanimals in the story and identify theadjective used to describe each animal. Eg. These Where Are The Puppy Picture Cards are a super fun way to help teach positional language. With cute illustrations, encourage your little pups to describe where the doggy is in each picture. Is he ‘behind’ the dog house? ‘In front’ of the grass?