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Books
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Derek’s Dog Days by Nancy Charlton
Calico Cat’s Year by Donald Charles
Over in the Meadow by Jane Cabrera
Cat’s Colors by Jane Cabrera
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
Four Black Puppies by Sally Grindley
I Have a Pet by Shari Halpern
Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill
I Heard a Little Baa by Elizabeth MacLeod
Just Me and My Puppy by Mercer Mayer
Emma’s Pet by David McPhail
Cats, Cats, Cats by Leslea Newman
Bath Day by Julia Noonan
Breakfast Time by Julia Noonan
My Dog by Judy Taylor
Poems/Fingerplays
Five Little Fishes
Kitten Fingers
Kitty Kitty
Love Your Pets (Tune: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Puppy Dogs
Ten Little Doggies
Two Little Blue Birds
Songs
"How much is that doggy in the window?" from Old MacDonald had a Farm by the Countdown Kids
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Where, oh where has my little dog gone?" from Singable Nursery Rhymes by Dennis Buck
"My kitty cat" from
Animal Antics by Hap Palmer
"Three little kittens" from
Mainly Mother Goose by Sharon, Lois & Bram
'You might like a pet" from Wiggly Safari by the Wiggles
Activities
- Kitty Collage
Need: Old Cards, Magazines, paper, Glue, Scissors
Directions: Let Children find and cut or tear out pictures of cats from greeting cards and magazines. Paste their cats on pieces of constructions paper.
- Copy Cat
Have one child be the CAT and clap a rhythm for the group. The other children listen and then be the COPY CATS. They clap the same rhythm as he CAT did. Another child now becomes the CAT and creates a rhythm for the COPY CATS to imitate.
- Dog bone dig
Get some dog biscuits, shaped like bones. Bury them in to a plastic tub filled with beans. The students can take turns digging them up. You can also divided up in teams, and each team has 1 minute to dig up as many as they can. The kids love acting like dogs!
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