Picture Quiz

Can you guess the member of staff in the photographs, they are in disguise!!!

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It is World Book Day 

Our special World Book Day book is ...

Dear Zoo by 

Rod Campbell

Click below to hear the author reading his own book!

Here are lots of different activites for your to try, take your pick!

Share the story

Picturetalk
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
Read the story aloud, taking time to talk together about the pictures as you do. Encourage children to open the flaps themselves. Invite them to imagine what might happen next and turn the page to see if their predictions were right. Talking about the book adds to their pleasure and understanding of the book.

Join in Read the story again (and again!), this time leaving spaces for children to join in with the repeated phrases and sounds. It will be fun for them to try out different animal ‘voices’.

Tell the story After hearing the story a few times, children will get to know it well, especially  the repeated phrases. Encourage them tell it to you in their own words, turning the pages, lifting the flaps and using the pictures to help them.

Storyplay
Gather together different kinds of boxes and containers, with animal toys, some the same as the animals in the book. Children can retell the story using their own toys or make up their own story.

Make a flap book Children can make their own flap book with pages for more animals arriving from the zoo  and needing to be returned ( because they are too noisy, prickly, heavy……) until they have the perfect pet. Click for instructions to make a simple lift-the-flap book.

Write a letter
Four or five year olds beginning to write for themselves could write their own  letter to the zookeeper asking for a pet.

Why now visit a virtual zoo. 

https://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/exhibits

Create an animal handprint 

https://mumscreativecupboard.com/dear-zoo-hand-prints/

Create a paperchain snake

Create a lion mane.

 You need - 

• Paper plates
• Yellow and orange paper
• Scissors
• Glue

Directions:

• Cut out the inside of a paper plate, leaving only the outside circle.
• Have your little ones cut out strips of yellow and orange construction paper.
• Have them glue the yellow and orange paper to the paper plate circle, creating a lion’s mane. Make sure they give a loud ROAR!

Colouring and dot to dot sheets to download

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/books-for-children/dear-zoo-35th-anniversary

https://masandpas.com/dear-zoo-craft/

https://masandpas.com/dear-zoo-craft/

Why not make a stick animal?

Listen to Justin read Dear Zoo, and he uses sign language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Jr4jO0P9c