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Zoo Week| Tot School Week 1

 Last Monday we started tot school in our home. If you're curious what this means please click HERE to see a description.

Our first theme was Zoo--I like to plan around outings and trips we have planned and we always do the zoo on my birthday so I made sure to have this theme for our first week.

Stand out books for us this week were Zoo Zoom by Candace Ryan and IVAN by Katherine Applegate. We also like to check out many specific animal books from the library for this week. 
Our worksheets varied from matching small to big, line (prewriting) practice, glue practice and also some pre-school workbook work.


The crafts we chose were a paper roll giraffe and wooden shaped animals I found at Dollar Tree. We also made a zoo themed sensory bin.

We follow our church curriculum for bible learning and the verse this month is 'We have the LORD our God to help us." 2 Chronicles 32:8. Memorable moment: Leighton reciting the verse and then saying '2 Chronicles Donald Duck."

She has been loving the story of Daniel and the Lion's Den and also Jonah and the Whale. I found that her 'Beginners Bible' has a Youtube channel with tons of bible story videos. We have watched both stories a half dozen times this week.

We also spent time outside where she jumped in puddles and we tracked a caterpillar until we could no longer see him in the grass.

Our week finished up with a trip to the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, MO. 

The elephant 'Hugo' put on quite a show for us. Also, our brave girl walked through the log tunnel by herself and fed the petting zoo animals! She didn't want a thing to do with them last year. She had a blast and has continued talking about the animals. She would tell them 'You're a good boy!' and 'You're soft!' like she was giving them all pep talks. 


With Heart from our Home, 

Jordan

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