Once Upon A Book~Pet Show!

 

Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats 

Book Summary~Everyone is talking about the neighborhood pet show, and Archie can't wait. His friends are bringing dogs and birds, and he is going to enter the cat who lives near by. But when it's time to go, the cat is nowhere to be found. The contest is about to start. What can Archie do?

Bible Verse

And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. (Genesis 1:24)

Math

Using our Education Cubes and Animal Counters, we played the Pets Grid Game from PreKinders.

 

We then used the Animal Countersto practice patterns.

Reading

 

I pulled out a Beginning Sounds file folder game from my Kindergarten teaching days and was pleasantly surprised to find out Jonah could do it independently. (The file folder game came from a pack of pre-made games that only required laminating and cutting~bought several years ago. I can't find the exact set this game is from on Amazon, but it is similar to this set.)

 

Field Trip/Vocabulary

Visit the local pet store! This was a fun little outing for Jonah. We looked at the adorable animals, but also walked through the pet care items and introduced a TON of vocabulary!  (For sanity reasons, I set the ground rules before entering about whining when leaving, asking for pets, etc. with the promise that if he did a good job, we would come back in the future.) My favorite part about this little "field trip" was that it was FREE! I only wish I had taken my camera!

 

Once we returned from the pet store, we used our experience to help sort animals into two categories~Pets or Zoo Animals. I used the Pets Theme Cards and the Safari Theme Cards from PreKinders. Later, I found Jonah practicing with his stuffed animals.

Glitter Germs~

 

In the book, Archie can't find the cat when it is time for the Pet Show to begin. He improvises, takes an empty jar and says his pet is a germ. It was a perfect time to do the "Glitter Germs" Activity and talk about germs! (Forgive me for not taking a picture, but glitter and a 4-year-old required lots of mommy supervision!)