Zoo Review

We have come to the point in our home school year that it is now time for a little review.  We have been very diligent in the first half of the year in our studies, so we are taking a break for review and more fun!  For the next two weeks we are going to review while studying a unit about the Zoo!  Grace has been doing SO well in reading that she challenges herself to read sentences backwards!  What a kid!  She reads whole books and rarely asks for help.  Hannah is more interested in learning letters and numbers, so I am going to capitalize on that immediately! 

We started off the week on Monday with a fun game that the girls wanted to play over and over and over.  I gathered many different Fisher Price animals that you would find in the zoo and made name cards for each one.  I hid the animals around the room and put the cards in a basket.  The girls took turns taking one of the cards out.  After reading the card, they both searched for the animals around the room and put them with their card on the stairs.  If they got a card with the word “zoo” then they had to lose a turn!  BUMMER! 

    

                                                

We have many special things planned for this unit.  Today we learned about Zookeepers and the jobs they do for the animals at the zoo.  If you would ask my precious girls about it, they would just talk about scooping up poopie. Yup… I hope other things sink in!  We also reviewed a lot with numbers by having Hannah add animals to her cages to correspond to the number that I said while Grace finished number sentences with her animals’ help.  She also created number families by using 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 animals to help her.  For example, she made    0+5   1+4   2+3   3+2  4+1   5+0.  It was fun!  What will we do tomorrow?