Today is Tuesday!!!  The closer we get to school starting, the faster the days are flying by!! Don't you  think??  Did you read to your child yesterday?  Did you spend some quality time?  Quality time can just be talking to your child.  The more LANGUAGE experiences a child has, the better they will understand language, the better readers and writers they will be!
ABC's - Are you ready??  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINZKA5rbvE
       
                                              http://www.youtube.com/watc?v=EOPCkVmNaBU&feature=relatedh            
                      
                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k521GcBOYw&feature=relmfu

Numbers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiAJO0HfNdU

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jxzZMw89qY
GIRAFFES:

An adult giraffe’s heart is 2 feet long and weighs about 20 pounds.

Giraffe’s tongue is almost 2 feet long.

Male giraffes weigh 3,000-4,000 lbs. and can reach 20 feet height; female giraffes weigh 1,500-2,500 lbs. and are about 14 feet tall; baby giraffes are 6 feet tall.

Giraffes’ life span is 20-28 years.

Giraffes spread their front legs in order to reach the water on ground level to drink—their tall necks are shorter than their legs.

Giraffes use their markings to camouflage themselves among trees. Like human fingerprints, each giraffe marking is like no other one.

Giraffes’ mouth has a hard inner surface making it easy to eat thorny plants.

Giraffes cannot cough.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/mammals-kids/giraffe-kids/

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/giraffe/

LIVE  WEB  GIRAFFE  CAM:
http://www.houstonzoo.org/webcam/giraffes/platform-cam/

To do with Mom or Dad:
Paint your hand yellow, press on paper with fingers pointing down.  Use brush to paint neck and face. then paint brown spots with brush.  Also paint (or draw) hooves, eyes, etc.


Let your child make up his OWN giraffe story or decide what he would name his giraffe.  Where would your child let her giraffe sleep?  What would she feed it?

HAVE FUN!!