Trip to the zoo PDF 22.6.20

Virtual School Trip - To the Zoo!!!

https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/

Subject Target Task Resources
Literacy
Welcome to our virtual trip to the zoo… first you need to set the
scene and build the excitement! Collect together any books you
have about animals you might find at the zoo…you could create a
den to read them in? Great for pretend play but Lion and Bear
enclosures – BEWARE!!!

I can Watch: Zoo books,
recognise Here are some links to zoo books that you can enjoy together: den
some materials,
initial Dear Zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudDGRQ9QGA zoo animal
sounds The View at the Zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-TrBI8BAuQ toys, pencils,
and can The Bus to the Zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M83VuIfDsYU paper,
copy My Dad at the Zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO6IfUfS4wo playdoh or
words Topsy and Tim at the Zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CftZDL- flour
using VGqw
sensory
materials

Do: Have a search around your house for zoo animal toys… can
you find one for each letter of the alphabet? Write all the initial
sounds on separate pieces of paper (adult) – can you match them
up?

Make: Use your plastic zoo animals to make footprints in playdoh
or in flour. Can you copy the name of the animal in flour too?

Don’t forget to keep an eye on the live webcams from Edinburgh
Zoo by clicking on the link at the top of the page

Numeracy Watch: Jack Hartman - Count to 100 at the Zoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxjAa3755U

I can Do: Using the zoo animal toys you have found around your Toy zoo
use/listen house… can you put them in size order and talk about or point to animals,
to the ‘smallest, biggest/tallest/longest’ measuring
comparing tape (or you
words to Here are the measurements of some real zoo animals – can you can just
describe/ ask an adult to draw the outline in chalk in your garden or on the estimate!),
identify pavement outside…or use masking tape or rope to lay it out in a chalk,
things and room in your house. How big is it? Can your body fit inside? Who is tape/rope,
am the longest? The shortest? The biggest? Ask your family to try too. lego/building
becoming blocks
aware of Male Lion
the Head to body length 175cm
language
used to Height 1.2m
talk about
measuring Male elephant 750cm
Head to body length

Height 4m

Male giraffe 470cm
Head to body length

Height 6m

Crocodile

Head to body length 5 m

Height 50 cm

Make: Can you make a zoo for the animals in your house using
recycled materials, building blocks and lego together?

Don’t forget to keep an eye on the live webcams from Edinburgh
Zoo by clicking on the link at the top of the page