Do Animals Belong In Zoos Lesson Plans

Notes:

This lesson helps to build up animal vocabulary (specially if washed subsequently the Farm Animals lesson) and introduces the phrase "Let's become to ...".

Lesson Procedure:

Warm Up and Maintenance:

See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" page.

New Learning and Practice:

i. Teach the zoo animals vocab
If you lot accept plastic toys for the animals y'all can use them or yous can use zoo brute flashcards. Before the form put the toys or flashcards in a bag. Bring out the bag and peer in – brand surprised noises to get the total attending of your students. Slowly, inch by inch, pull out the animals – elicit /teach/chorus the animal name "eastward.g. What's this? Information technology's a (king of beasts). (Lion), (Lion), (Lion)". Then teach/chorus the beast dissonance (East.k. "What noise does a lion make?" "Roar!").

2. Play "Pass the animals"
Pass one of the animals or fauna flashcards to the nearest pupil. As y'all pass, say "(lion) (roar)". Have the students pass all the animals around the circle, all the while maxim the animal proper noun and noise.

iii. Play "Animals Match-up Concentration"
Yous'll need two sets of zoo animals flashcards per group. Shuffle them and spread, confront- downwardly, on the floor or table. Turn over one card and so another. The object of the game is to find the same 2 cards – which wins you a betoken. If you plow over the same pair of cards (e.g. two tigers) you keep the cards and remove them from the game. If you turn over two dissimilar cards, plough them back over and the side by side player gets a plough. The game ends when all cards take been removed and the actor with the nearly cards is the winner.

If y'all take completed the Farm Animals lesson previously, you can include the farm brute flashcards in this game.

iv. Sing the "Let'due south Go to the Zoo" vocal
Before the vocal, run through the actions in the correct club of the song. Information technology will assist to have the flashcards in guild on the board or use our song sheet. Play the song and accept everyone doing the actions equally they sing along.

Lyrics for the "Let's Get to the Zoo" song

Chorus:
Zoo, zoo,
Let's go to the zoo,
What volition we see at the zoo?

Zoo, zoo,
Allow's become to the zoo,
What volition we see at the zoo?

Verse 1:
Lion, we will run across a king of beasts,
Elephant, we will see an elephant,
Monkey, nosotros will run across a monkey,
Let'southward go to the zoo!

Chorus

Poesy two:
Tiger, we will see a tiger,
Serpent, we will run across a snake,
Birds, we will come across some birds,
Permit's get to the zoo!

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Gestures for the "Permit'south Go to the Zoo" song

The gestures are fun and mimic the animals beingness sung about:

1. For the "Zoo, zoo, Allow's go to the zoo", accept everyone walking on the spot equally they walk to the zoo.

2. For the side by side line "What volition we see at the zoo?", have everyone put their hand higher up their optics every bit they search for animals.

three. For the animal parts practise the post-obit:

lion: look violent and roar
elephant: make a body with your arm and make the trumpet noise
monkey: do the money scratching head and armpit gesture whilst saying "ooh-ooh"
tiger: wait fierce and roar
snake: brand a ophidian shape with your hands and hiss similar a ophidian
birds: flap your arms similar wings and say "tweet-tweet"

Nosotros also accept a video that yous can stream in form to sing along with (Net connection required):

5. Play "Animals Walk" game
Have everybody stand at one cease of the classroom. First model: concord up a flashcard of a lion. Shout "Run like a king of beasts!" – then get down and clamber across the room like a lion all the time roaring. Then have anybody do information technology. Then do for all the other animals (e.m. "Stomp like an elephant!", etc.).

6. Practice "Zoo Animals Play-doh"
Y'all'll need dissimilar colored play-doh. Sit down the students in groups and bear witness them how to brand simple models of animals. Let everyone make the animals that they desire and equally they are doing and so circulate and ask lots of questions (e.g. What'due south that? Is it a lion? What noise does a lion make? etc.).

7. Read classroom reader "Sammy Serpent'south Birthday Party"
This classroom reader ties in perfectly with the lesson vocab. Before class, download and print off the reader "Sammy Snake'southward Altogether Party". Every bit y'all go through each page, point to the animals and arm-twist the vocabulary and the noises each fauna makes:

Read classroom reader "Sammy Snake's Birthday Party" Instructor: "What animal is this?" (pointing at the monkey on folio 2)
Students: monkey!
Teacher: Yes, that's correct! It'southward a monkey! And what noise does a monkey make?
Students: Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
Teacher: Correct! And what is the monkey property? (pointing at the bananas)
Students: bananas!
Teacher: Yeah, good job! Bananas! And do snakes like bananas?
Students: No!
Teacher: Permit'south check ... (reading from page 2) ... "The monkey brings some bananas. Only
Sammy doesn't similar bananas". You're correct. Poor Sammy!
etc.

Read classroom reader "Sammy Snake's Birthday Party"

At that place are some new animals in the story which haven't been introduced in the lesson still (zebra, bear, panda) - this is fine: elicit and teach the animal vocabulary and noises they make. Your students will selection these words up rapidly as the story progresses (and when yous read the story again in later lessons).

Try to get the students really involved in the story by asking lots of questions - e.g. by eliciting the food items, colors and fifty-fifty asking students to speculate what nutrient Sammy the Serpent will want at his party).

After reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and have anybody match the animals to the food they gave to Sammy Snake. And so become through the answers every bit a class.

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Alternatively, sentry our video version of the reader (Internet connection required):

8. Practice "Zoo Animals" worksheet
Utilise the "Animals 3" worksheet. Kickoff agree the worksheet upwardly for all to see. Take a crayon and arm-twist its color (e.thou. "What colour is this?"). So color one of the animals whilst eliciting its name. Do the same for the other animals. Give out the worksheets and have the students color the animals, all the time praising, helping, encouraging and asking target questions (eastward.g. "What is it?"). Finally, go to each Due south in turn, look at his/her worksheet, ask some questions so requite back with lots of praise.