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Updated: Jan 8, 2020

Where do animals live and what do animals need? This 15 Minute Circle Time will help the children learn about the variety of habitats that support animal life.

 

Attention Getter: Animal Sounds


Play the Zoo Animal Sounds on an iPad. Let the children listen to the types of animals they are hearing and guess what they are. (You may want to place pictures of each animal on the floor so that the children can look at them as they guess).

This is the link we used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JA2yR8ZMzc


 

Activity 1: Mixed Up Animals


Before class, place pictures of the following habitats: forest, ocean, jungle, desert, and Arctic. Print a variety of pictures of animals that live in these habitats. Tape them on the board as well.


At circle time, show each habitat and describe some of its characteristics. Let the children add any ideas of what they know about each habitat as well. Then tell the class that the animals are all mixed up. They don't know which habitat to live in. Let each child come up, choose an animal and put it in its correct habitat.



 

Book: I Want to Be a Zookeeper


This book describes the different jobs that a zoo keeper does. It shares examples of how zookeepers work to create healthy habitats for animals.

 

Activity 2: A Zookeeper's Work


Explain that people who work at the zoo are call zookeepers. A zookeeper’s job is to create a habitat that resembles the homes from where the animals would naturally live. Show some animals that may be seen at the zoo and ask the children what types of habitats a zookeeper would create for them.



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