Books

• 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
• I Have a Pet by Shari Halpern
• Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
• I Heard a Little Baa by Elizabeth MacLeod
• Cats, Cats, Cats by Leslea Newman
• Bath Day by Julia Noonan
• Breakfast Time by Julia Noonan

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
• "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!