Thursday or "little Friday!!"  I don't seem to have alot of people viewing and using these posts and links.  If you have any suggestions, please message me or leave a comment.  I would really like to give something to parents who want to help their child. Any suggestions would be helpful.
ABC's - ALWAYS!!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75p-N9YKqNo

It is not too early to start writing the ABC's if your child is holding a pencil or crayon (even markers are great.)  I will always print the letters in light, light blue or orange and have the children trace over them with a darker marker.  Try it - just a few letters a day and remember to do capital and lowercase letters together:
Print Aa  5 - 6 times and have her trace those.  If she is ready, do several letters.  The letters of her name are good to start with.  (The little a is just a circle with a short line - not the way shown here in type.)


We have talked about several zoo animals and they are so fun to watch on the live video cam - remember San Diego zoo is 3 hrs. behind most of us.  Atlanta zoo has several other animal cams. Check those out.


Let's talk TIGERS!
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9GoVEGGb8U    Counting tiger!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL5SAm90HK8   Tiger teaching colors!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxYNseMvCoc

TIGER CAM:
http://www.palmbeachzoo.org/tiger-cam.html



You can hear a tiger roar over a mile away!
A tiger can eat 100 pounds of meat a night! Compare that to 400 hamburgers! They need a lot of food because they go days between meals.
Tigers have been called man eaters, yet they eat frogs, monkeys, porcupines  fowl, and tortoises, especially  when a good deer is hard to find.
Tigers have eyes that are the brightest of any other animal in the world. At dusk, or in the beam of a torch, they blaze back the ambient light with awe-inspiring intensity.
Tigers are the biggest cats in the world. They live in steamy hot jungles as well as icy cold forests.
Depending on the subspecies, the head-body length of a tiger is about 41/2 to 9 feet (1.4-2.8 m). The length of the tail is 3 to 4 feet (90-120 cm). The foot pads vary in size with age, resulting in inaccurate estimates when used in censuring wild populations.

Siberian tigers are the heaviest subspecies at 500 or more pounds (225 kg), with males heavier than females. 
Although tigers usually live alone, tiger territories can overlap. A male tiger's territory usually overlaps those of several female tigers.Tigers mark their territories by spraying bushes and trees with a special mixture of urine and scent gland secretions. They also leave scratch marks on trees.
Tigers can see in the dark six times better than humans can. They can also see in color.
The heaviest tiger recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records is a 1,025-pound male Siberian tiger.
Young tigers live with their mother until they are two to three years old, then they find their own territories.
Unlike some big cats like lions, adult tigers like to live alone (except for mother tigers with cubs). This is partly because in the forest, a single tiger can sneak up and surprise its prey better than a group of tigers can.
Most tigers have an orange coat with dark brown or black stripes accented with white. Tigers that live in cold climates (Siberian tigers) have thicker fur than tigers that live in warm climates.
A tiger's tail is 3 to 4 feet long, about half as long as its body. Tigers use their tails for balance when they run through fast turns. They also use their tails to communicate with other tigers.
 Tiger stripes are like human fingerprints; no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.
A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.

Like domestic cats, tiger claws are retractable. Tiger scratches on trees serve as territorial markers.

The life span of tigers in the wild is thought to be about 10 years. Tigers in zoos live twice as long.
Tiger cubs are born blind and weigh only about 2 to 3 pounds (1 kg), depending on the subspecies. They live on milk for 6-8 weeks before the female begins taking them to kills to feed. Tigers have fully developed canines by 16 months of age, but they do not begin making their own kills until about 18 months of age.


Tiger craft:
Color or paint a paper plate orange.  Color and cut out objects below, then cut and glue.  EASY - FUN!!!