Extend the Learning: Virtual Field Trip to the San Diego Zoo
Take a Trip to the Zoo with Peppa!Posted by NOGGIN on Sunday, April 26, 2020
Peppa goes on a class trip to the zoo! Watch the full episode now in the Noggin app and visit the penguins, butterflies, and tortoises along with Peppa, and learn a few fun animal facts from Mr. Lion and Madame Gazelle!
💡Skill: Moving your body like an animal builds muscles. Guessing builds cognitive skills.
Description
Animals stretch, leap, hop, and climb. Pretend to be amazing animals, and see if someone can guess who you are!
Materials
- Printables (optional)
Steps
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
- Animals move in all different ways. Snakes like to slither, kangaroos love to hop, and birds fly through the sky!
- Let’s play an animal guessing game. I’ll run super fast or flap my wings or pretend to be another amazing animal — and you try to guess what I am.
- Now it’s your turn. Can you pretend to be an animal? I’ll guess your animal!
- Let’s play again!
Extend the Learning
Play an animal movement game with our printable masks! Simply cut out the eyes from each animal mask; place the masks face down on the table; and when a player picks and holds up a mask, the other players give clues by making sounds and moving like that animal until the player can guess what animal mask they are wearing! Have more fun by learning to dance like Chickaletta and discovering weird but wonderful animals.
Words to Use
- Flap – To move up and down
- Leap – To jump in the air
- Slither – To slide on your stomach
Pro Tip
Help your child by adding the sounds an animal might make so guessing is a little easier. If your child is ready for a challenge, make up an animal dance for each animal!
💡Skill: Imagining animals helps build children’s creative thinking and problem solving skills. Doing art projects builds the small muscles in their wrists, hands, and fingers.
Description
Real life animals can do amazing things. Work with your child to imagine superpowers for his or her own imaginary animal and then create a drawing or illustrated story about it.
Materials
☑ Printable coloring sheets (optional)
☑ Printable puppets (optional)
☑ Paper
☑ Crayons/markers
Steps
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
- Real animals can do incredible things! Giraffes can clean their ears with their tongues. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t float apart.
- Let’s make up our own super animal and imagine its amazing powers. Can it glow in the dark? Can it fly? Can it eat only chocolate chip cookies?
- Let’s draw a picture of our imaginary animal and write some words about it.
Extend the Learning
Meet Shine’s tiger friend, Rainbow. This tiger is a colorful example of how kids can use their imaginations to transform real animals into imaginary ones! Then create puppets by simply cutting the printable and gluing the top and side edges. Once dry, use to put on a puppet show! Print the coloring sheets and help kids draw their own unicorn.
Words to Use
- Creative – From someone’s imagination
- Creature – An Animal
- Imaginary – Not real
- Incredible – Very exciting
- Sea Otter – An animal that lives in the water and likes to float on its back
Pro Tip
If your little artist wants, help him or her put paper together to make a book about the imaginary animal. If your child needs help, start with a real animal, like a dog, and add some fun features like wings or the ability to speak!
💡Skill: Pretending to protect animals helps children learn to care for others and begin to understand how to keep animals safe.
Description
There are a lot of animals with awesome powers who are endangered and need our help! When animals are endangered there are not many left on Earth, and they could become extinct. Work with your child to save the animals!
Materials
☑ Printables (optional)
☑ Toy animals
Steps
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
- Diego rescues animals in the jungle — like gorillas and tigers — who need help. Let’s help him rescue animals by pretending with our toy animals.
- It’s very hot out today. Your animals need water to drink! Let’s bring them some.
- Oh no! One of your animals has hurt his leg. How can we help?
- How else can we pretend to help our animals? You are an animal hero!
Extend the Learning
Print our fun fact coloring book for your kids; check out the World Wildlife Fund to learn how to help animals; and meet some really cool gorillas with Diego!
Words to Use
- Endangered – In trouble
- Extinct – No longer alive
- Jungle – A warm area with lots of trees and animals
- Rescue – To save
- Safe – Not in trouble
Pro Tip
You can help your little hero choose one animal to help. For a challenge, ask your child to write a story about saving an endangered animal.
💡Skill: Learning about animals builds language skills and observational powers. It also builds children’s knowledge about the world.
Description
Learn about animal powers with a virtual field trip to see the koalas, elephants, tigers, and butterflies! YOU and your child will be explorers and learn about some of the most incredible animals on Earth.
Materials
☑ Printable (optional)
☑ Crayons/Markers (optional)
Steps
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
- Let’s visit some amazing animals on a virtual field trip to the San Diego Zoo. First, let’s print or download our explorer’s notebook.
- Now, let’s follow along by clicking on these links to see the amazing animals:
🐾 Koalas
🐾 Tigers
Extend the Learning
Don’t forget to print an explorer’s pack before your virtual trip to the zoo! The printable pack contains a map, binoculars, and activities kids can complete as they visit each animal. Kids can watch as Peppa and her class visit the zoo, and play an animal-identify game with Molly from Bubble Guppies.
Words to Use
- Explorer – A person who visits an area that is new to him or her
- Herd – A group of animals
- Incredible – Amazing
- Observe – To watch and notice
- Virtual – On a computer, not live and in person
- Zoo – A place where you can go to see wild animals that are taken care of by people
- Zoologist – Someone who knows all about animals
Pro Tip
Some of the animals might wander off screen, so watch for a while or check back later. If your child wants a challenge, work together to research and learn more about his or her favorite animals; write about what the animals can do!
💡Skill: This activity helps children express themselves and take turns, which builds self-control.
End the day with animal stories!
Steps
There are so many amazing animals — from giraffes that grow taller than trees to cheetahs that run faster than cars!
- Let’s take turns making up stories about amazing animals.
- Once upon a time there was an animal who….
- It’s your turn! Tell me what the animal looks like and what it can do. What is its super animal power? Let’s go back and forth as we tell our animal tale!
Words to Use
- Amazing – Wonderful
- Cheetah – A big, long-legged, fast cat with yellow fur and black spots
- Tail – The back part of an animal; cats, dogs, and other animals have them
- Tale – A Story
- Turn – Move in a direction
💡Skill: Moving and stretching builds the big muscles in the legs, back, core, and arms.
Practice Cobra Pose with GilPosted by NOGGIN on Sunday, April 26, 2020
Start the day by practicing Cobra Pose with Gil, and then try moving like other amazing animals!
Steps
Have you ever seen animals wake up? They stretch their bodies to get ready to move. Let’s try!
- Cobras wake up with cobra pose! Let’s lie down on our stomachs. Now let’s put our hands flat on the ground, pull our shoulders back, and lift our chests off the ground. Hiss like a cobra! Can we hold the pose for 5 seconds?
- Cats wake up with the cat pose! Let’s put our hands and knees on the ground, arch our backs up like cats, and meow! Can we hold the pose for 5 seconds?
- Dogs wake up with the downward dog! Let’s put our hands and knees on the ground. Now, let’s lift our knees up, keeping our feet on the ground, and stick our bottoms up in the air. Say woof! Can we hold the pose for 5 seconds?
Words to Use
- Awaken – To wake up
- Hold – To keep
- Stretch – To straighten your body to help your muscles
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💡Skills: Throwing and catching a ball can help your child learn about how the Earth goes around, or orbits, the Sun — and build his or her muscles.
Description
The Earth makes one big circle, or orbit, around the Sun each year. Every day, the Earth turns around; when it faces the Sun, it is daytime and when it faces away from the Sun, it is nighttime. Play a game with your child to use your bodies to learn how this works!
Materials
☑ Reusable paper or plastic bag
☑ Old papers
☑ Tape
Set Up
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
- Did you know the Earth is spinning underneath us every day? Let’s play a game to be like the Earth!
- First, let’s make a ball using recycled materials. We can use a bag and fill it with a shirt or used paper, and tape or tie it shut. It’s a recycled ball!
- Now, let’s play our game! I am going to stand in the middle of the room and pretend to be the Sun.
- You hold the ball and pretend to be the Earth. Throw the ball to me: it is daytime! Now turn in a circle, take a step to the side, and I will throw the ball back to you! That is one whole day!
- You can keep circling around me, spinning, and passing the ball…until you make a whole orbit around me. Wow! That was a whole year. Let’s switch places. You can be the Sun and I’ll be the Earth!
Pro Tip:
If your Earth hero is ready to do more, see how many times you can throw and catch the ball without dropping it! Can you get up to 10? Try moving farther away from each other. If your child needs a simpler activity, try rolling the ball back and forth from the Sun to the Earth while sitting on the ground. The child can scoot in an orbit, while sitting down.
Extend the Learning
Kids can learn more by watching Blaze fight a fire and creating a booklet with facts about fire dogs — dalmatians like Marshall, and creating a helmet they can wear during their pretend play time.
Words to Use
- Rotate– to go around in a circle
- Spin – to go around in a circle
- Orbit – when something in space goes around something else, in a circle-like shape
Recycled Masterpiece
Skills: Creating art from recyclable materials builds your little artist’s creativity and helps him or her think about how to take care of our Earth.
Skills: Creating art from recyclable materials builds your little artist’s creativity and helps him or her think about how to take care of our Earth.
Description
Famous artists create art from recyclable materials like bottle caps, car parts, paper tubes, and old magazines. You and your child can be artists who care about the Earth and create a masterpiece from things you find in your recycling bins.
Materials
Recyclable materials, like empty egg cartons or cereal boxes
Craft materials you have at home like paint, glue, tape, and string
Set Up
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
Peppa Pig loves to create her own artistic masterpieces. Today, we’re going to create something beautiful — and we’re going to do it with things we find in our recycling bin so we are protecting the Earth!
First, let’s collect items (like empty egg cartons, cereal boxes, oatmeal containers, and toilet paper tubes). YOU can turn almost anything into art!
What should we create? Let’s use tape or glue and other craft supplies we have at home to create our own Earth-friendly recycled masterpieces!
Tell me about your art! What else can we make?
Pro Tip
If this is too easy, have your little artist make a gallery of his or her art created using recyclable objects. Write down an explanation of each masterpiece! If you want to take a simpler approach, try having your child pick one object — like an empty egg carton — and color it with markers or crayons!
Extend the Learning
Watch as Madame Gazelle assigns an eco-friendly art project to Peppa’s class, and then learn to create one with cereal boxes and other household objects!
Words to Use
Masterpiece – a very special work of art
Artists – someone who makes art
Create – to make
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