Zebra Habitat

We started learning about zebras. Here are a couple of links for some ideas:

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/alpha/z/zebra.htm

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/alpha/z/zebra.htm

My favorite:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Zebra

To help Andrew learn about zebras, I read up on what they eat. We made a little "habitat" for the plastic zebra he has. Together, yesterday, we collected leaves, sticks, grass and bark for the habitat and we made it out of the bottom of a diaper box. We also added blue paper that we cut up to show water. Today my little scientist did a little exploring of his own. He found some leaves, some grass with roots and some tree "roots" for the zebra's habitat. He spent a good 30 minutes exploring and finding things for the habitat. We also checked out informational books from the library about zebras. Since he knows that cows eat grass, too, we made a little graph that shows what animals we know about that eat grass. We put up a picture of a zebra and a cow from our visits to the zoo and a local farm. In order to show that people don't eat grass, we also made a chart showing that and put a picture of our family on that one.

To make the charts: use two different colors of paper - one for "Who eats grass?" and another for "Who does not eat grass?" On the first chart, tape a little bit of grass to the top so they remember what the chart is for and have them help tape pictures of animals up. On the second chart, I put a picture of our family to show that people don't eat grass. Add to each chart as you learn about animals that do or do not eat grass.