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Animal Trackers Table of Contents
Go back to the Animal Trackers ProgramChapter Index:
Chapter 1: Lenny the Lizard
Lenny the Lizard will help your kids develop the motor skills of creeping and crawling, both cross-lateral movements. This type of activity helps their right brains communicate with their left. They’ll also be introduced to reading and writing skills, develop the fine motor skill of tracing and coloring, learn to identify the letter L, gain sequencing skills by identifying parts of a story involving Lenny, practice counting from 5-10 and gain some practice identifying and sorting colors and shapes!
Chapter 1: Crawling and Creeping with “Lenny the Lizard”
Activity 1: “The Lenny Crawl”
Activity 2: Lenny’s Adventure
Activity 3: “Lenny Gets Lost”
Activity 4: “A Creep, Creep Here & a Creep, Creep There”
Activity 5: Let’s Creep!
Activity 6: Creepy-Crawly Things!Chapter 2: Dara the Duck
With Dara the Duck, imagery and music are used to help encourage your children to work on their walking skills and later, marching all with a focus on proper posture and foot alignment. They’ll also reinforce their recognition of the ABC’s by recitation and identifying various items beginning with different letters, will learn to identify opposites aiding the development of their vocabulary, and explore their environment and identify seasonal activities while combining this with walking!
Chapter 2: Walking & Marching with “Dara the Duck”
Activity 1: Dara Walks
Activity 2: Follow that Duck!
Activity 3: Feeling Ducky
Activity 4: Marching Along
Activity 5: “When Dara Comes Marching Home”
Activity 6: The Beat Goes OnChapter 3: Chuck the Cheetah
With Chuck the Cheetah, your kids will start running! While still keeping an emphasis on proper posture and foot alignment and with limbs in opposition, they’ll also learn to identify various shapes and colors, develop the ability to reason and make logical connections, learn to follow rules, take turns, and interact positively with one another, and also get an introduction to U.S. Geography!
Chapter 3: Running with “Chuck the Cheetah”
Activity 1: “Like the Wind”
Activity 2: On the Run
Activity 3: “Now We’re Running”
Activity 4: The Track Meet
Activity 5: Run Across America
Activity 6: Forward, Ho!Chapter 4: Kate the Kangaroo
Kate the Kangaroo will teach your children how to jump, hop, and land safely by keeping proper body alignment. They’ll also practice beginning writing skills by tracing and coloring, and develop vocabular and math via various quantitative concepts.
Chapter 4: Jumping & Hopping with “Kate the Kangaroo”
Activity 1: “What Kangaroos Do”
Activity 2: Rabbits and ‘Roos
Activity 3: Let’s Jump!
Activity 4: Up and Over
Activity 5: Let’s Hop!
Activity 6: “Hopping, Hopping All Around”Chapter 5: Harry the Horse
Harry the Horse will introduce your kids to galloping, with both their dominant and non-dominant foot. They’ll develop the skills to sequence events by identifying parts of a story and identify various shapes, and learn to count and sort objects into various groups.
Chapter 5: Galloping with “Harry the Horse”
Activity 1: Look at Him Gallop
Activity 2: Being Horses
Activity 3: “A Horse Story”
Activity 4: The Riding Demonstration
Activity 5: “Harry Gallops”
Activity 6: Two’s Company, Three’s a HerdChapter 6: Maria the Monkey
With Maria the Monkey, your children will refine the motor skills of throwing and catching while developing hand-eye coordination and focusing skills. They’ll also learn to explore and express a variety of feelings in a positive way.
Chapter 6: Throwing and Catching with “Maria the Monkey”
Activity 1: “Maria Throws”
Activity 2: Taking Aim!
Activity 3: Bounce & Catch
Activity 4: “Maria Had to Catch a Ball”
Activity 5: Toss Across
Activity 6: What Goes Up Must Come DownChapter 7: Marty the Mule
Marty the Mule will help your kids develop eye-foot coordination as well as refine the skills of kicking and dribbling. They’ll also have an opportunity to reinforce color recognition by identifying a variety of factors.
Chapter 7: Kicking and Dribbling with “Marty the Mule”
Activity 1: Getting a Kick out of Marty
Activity 2: Boot It, Baby!
Activity 3: Put the Ball to the Wall
Activity 4: Dribble, Dribble
Activity 5: The Real Dribble
Activity 6: An Obstacle Course, Of Course!Chapter 8: Danny the Dog
Danny the Dog will help your children develop the gymnastic skill of rolling. It also continues to develop beginning reading and writing skills by learning to distingue same and different pictures of Danny. They’ll also have more opportunities to learn how to follow rules, take turns, and interact positively with each other.
Chapter 8: Rolling with “Danny the Dog”
Activity 1: Do As Danny Does
Activity 2: Get It Straight
Activity 3: Puppy Dog Rolls
Activity 4: Doggie Partners
Activity 5: Footsie Rolls
Activity 6: Forward, Ho!Chapter 9: Buddy the Bear
Buddy the Bear will help your child develop the skill of transferring weight and balancing. They’ll also learn how to identify opposites which will help them develop their vocabular and logic skills.
Chapter 9: Transferring Weight & Balancing with “Buddy the Bear”
Activity 1: Buddy Says…
Activity 2: Buddy’s Body Weight
Activity 3: Buddy Balances
Activity 4: Buddy Balances Again
Activity 5: Counting Buddy’s Body Parts
Activity 6: Balancing BuddiesChapter 10: Animals on Parade
Animals on Parade, the last chapter in Animal Trackers, gives your children an opportunity to review all of the concepts in previous chapters with additional activities to practice. They’ll also experience smooth execution of sequences of skills, learn to place various parts of a poem in sequential order, learn to better identify colors, sizes, and shapes, make comparisons between small and large animals, recognize numbers and number words, and even learn about traffic safety!
Chapter 10: Animals on Parade
Activity 1: “Animals on Parade”
Activity 2: Animal Association
Activity 3: Traffic Lights
Activity 4: Station Rotation Continued
Activity 5: “Sing a Song of Movement”
Activity 6: The Ultimate Obstacle CourseGo back to the Animal Trackers Program
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