Today was Z Day. I can't even believe it's our last letter. We've been doing letter days now for just about a year. It's been really fun. The kids have enjoyed it, and Suzy and I have enjoyed it. but more importantly, I think the kids learned something too. And if nothing else, we now have a whole alphabets worth of activities for Ivan and Adelia when they are old enough. :)
To start out the letter Z Suzy read Zeely Zebra to the boys. Zeely is a Zebra who wants to be on the racing team but isn't very fast. So she enlists the help of the cheetah and together they practice until Zeely is fast enough to win the race and be on the team.
After the story, Suzy gave each boy a paper with a Zebra on it. The boys put glue over all the zebra's stripes and then dumped sand onto their pictures. When they shook the sand off, the sand stuck to the glue and made the stripes colored.
After that Suzy read another book called Color Zoo, which used different shapes to make different zoo animals. It was funny to listen to the boys try to guess each animal. We talked about what kinds of animals you can find in the zoo. And then we made a zoo animal. Suzy chose to have the boys do monkeys as their zoo animal, since they act like little monkeys a lot of the time. :) She gave each boy the different shapes and they got to glue them to their papers and then color their monkeys. The boys put bars across to show that the monkeys were in the zoo.
Then Suzy played the song "Zippity Do Da" for the boys to listen to. She also drew a zigzag and a zero on the ground with chalk. While the boys listened to the song, they ran around the zigzag course. I think this was their favorite part. Of course we couldn't convince them to run in the same direction, so they frequently collided, but no one got hurt.
For a snack Suzy gave everyone zoo animal crackers.
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Too Fun!
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