Zoo Week

Last week's theme for our morning activities was the ZOO! 

I really, really wanted to take both kids to the zoo, but seeing as it was 3957295 degrees outside (no really, the heat index was over 100 most of the week), that just was not going to happen last week. So our zoo trip has been postponed for when it cools off a little bit, probably November 😉 

But we did do lots of fun zoo activities instead!

Books we read:

{Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? | Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | If I Ran the Zoo | What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? | Zoo Day | Color Zoo | Curious George Goes to the Zoo | Elephants and Their Calves | Let's Go to the Zoo}

Educational things:

Pattern block puzzles

Ella LOVED these, and she was actually quite good at them! I'm kicking myself for getting rid of the millions of these I used to have (laminated!) from teaching. 

Tracing worksheet

Counting worksheet

{Ella doesn't know how to write the numbers, so after she counted each animal, I wrote the number with a highlighter for her to trace over}

Pattern worksheet

Fine motor and counting activity

Ella initially HATED this. She got really frustrated (because it was hard) and had a small temper tantrum. 

Luckily, she tried another "tool" (I got these off Amazon for less than $6!), and she had a bit more success....so it was a win by the end of it.

Art projects:

Paper plate peacock

Using our favorite dot markers again! 

Handprint monkey

Paper plate snake

And Ella's favorite zoo animal, a zebra!

Snack: 

Animal crackers, duh!

There were so many zoo activities on Pinterest, we really just hit the tip of the iceberg! Guess we'll just have to do some more next summer! (And hopefully we make it to the real zoo soon!)