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Try to find some of these nonfiction/learning titles:
· Animals You Never Even Heard Of, by Patricia Curtis, Sierra Club Books, 1997—This book examines 12 different species of wild animals that are rare, threatened or endangered (like the axolotl, Babirusa and Caracal to name three).
· Dangerous Animals, by Andrew Brown, Crabtree Publishing Company, 1997—Gives a brief description of 12 dangerous animals and why they are dangerous.
· Amazing Things Animals Do, by Marilyn Baillie and art by Romi Caron, Owl Books, 2003—This is an interesting book for animal lovers as it shows how many animals live together to actually help each other out like the Finch who eats the bugs on the tortoise’s shell.
· Weird Animals, by Tammy Everts and Bobbie Kalman, Crabtree Publishing, 1995—This book gives a little bit of information about over 14 different animals.
How to encourage your child to write:
Choose the level of your child:
Toddler/Preschool – discuss the answer(s) out loud first and have your child draw a picture of the answer
Preschool/Kindergarten – discuss the answer(s) out loud first and write the answer down for him/her leaving one word for him/her to write out himself/herself with your help. You could also encourage him/her to draw a picture as well.
Early Grade School – have your child either write out the answer himself/herself (encourage phonetic spelling) without your help, or offer to help with spelling each word out loud one word at a time.
Grade School – have your child write a sentence or two on his/her own and then read over and discuss the response. (You decide whether to correct the spelling or not)
Older Child – have your child write a longer response (paragraph).
As A Challenge – instead of a question ask your older child to write a story or poem about aniamls
These two books are anthologies of animal poems!
These two are anthologies of animal poems:
· Eric Carle’s Animals, Animals, Philomel Books, 1989 – This large book has a collection of poems by various authors each accompanied with the unique illustrations of Eric Carle.
· A Zooful of Animals, selected by William Cole and illustrated by Lynn Munsinger, Houghton Millin Compnay, 1992—This is a large collection of poems with fun illustrations.
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Go to the library or check reading apps to find books about your favourite animals!
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JOURNALING Question Prompt:
Write out one or more of the following questions in your Family Theme Day Scrapbook or on a piece of paper to glue in your scrapbook:
What is your favourite animal? What animals do you like to see in the wild? What do you like to see at the zoo? What animals are dangerous? What animals make nice pets and why? If you could be an animal what would it be? Which animals are endangered? What can we do to protect the animals?
Here are some picture books about various animals:
· Animals Galore!, by Patricia macCarthy, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989—Using silk paintings as illustrations this book is interesting because it gives the names of collections of animals (like a pride of lions, colony of penguins and a knot of toads…).
· Animals on Board, by Stuart J. Murphy and illustrated by R.W. Alley, Harper Collins Publishers, 1998 – A Level 2 Mathstart book this book teaches addition by counting animal statues that pass by a trucker as she drives to her destination.
· The Animals Song, by David L. Harrison and illustrated by Chris L. Demarest, Boyds Mill Press, 1997—This is a rhyming book about animal sounds as animals join in a song one by one.
· Oodles of Animals, by Lois Ehlert, Harcourt Inc., 2008 – This bright book has poems and neat collage illustrations made of paper and shapes.
· Over in the Meadow, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, Viking, 1999—This classic counting poem was one of my favourites as a little girl. There are many book versions of this poem but I like the simple and beautiful illustrations of Ezra Jack Keats in this one.
· Party Animals, written and illustrated by Katie Davis, Harcourt Brace, 2002—This colourfully illustrated book is also a counting book and a review of colours as it tells the tale of one blue ant who is sad that he is not invited to the animal party.
· Z is for Zookeeper: A Zoo Alphabet, written by Marie and Roland Smith, and illustrated by Henry Cole, 2005—As well as being an alphabet book with a rhyme for every letter, this also has a lot of information about zoos explaining what zoos do (preserving and breeding animals), what a zookeeper’s responsibilities include, as well as information about different animals, among other things.