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ANIMAL BOOK
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DR.’S BAG
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Give your child a bag that he can use as a Dr.’s bag (black if possible). |
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Using some white or red tape, make a Dr.’s cross on the bag for decoration. |
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Provide your child with strips of material to roll up for bandages, some large bandaids, a craft stick themometer, a box of raisins for medicine, etc. |
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VET’S OFFICE PLAY CENTER
Create a nice dramatic play area for your child to pretend to be a veterinarian. Stock the area with:
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The Doctor’s Bag |
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Small Animal carrier (could be created out of a box). |
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Toy animals |
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White shirt (roll up sleeves) |
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Play stethoscope |
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Doll furniture (pet beds) |
Have your child pretend to give pets, check-ups, bandages, and other treatments. |
REAL VETS OFFICE
Arrange to take your child or group on a trip to a local veterinarian’s office.
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Before your visit, discuss reasons why animals need to visit a vet. |
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Have children who have already been to a vet’s office describe their experience. |
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At the vet’s office, have children notice the kinds of animals in the waiting room, the different treatment rooms, and the recovery areas for pet patients. |
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Ask the vet to show how to correctly handle pets and to tell what owners can do to keep their pets healthy and safe. |
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After the visit, help the children make thank-you cards to send to the vet and his or her staff. |
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TYPES OF VETERINARIANS
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Explain to your children that veterinarians usually decide to treat pets in one or two categories; such as, farm vet, pet vet or zoo vet. |
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Set out a number of small plastic animals. |
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Set out three pieces of paper. Write, Farm on one, Zoo on another and Pets on the third. |
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Have your children take turns sorting the animals into the three catagories. |
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Ask the children which group of animals they would like to treat if they were a vet. |
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AT THE VETERINARIAN’S
Tune: “Down By The Station”
At the veterinarian’s
Early in the morning,
See the little puppies
Waiting in a row.
See the veterinarian
Give the puppies checkups.
Arf! Arf! Arf!
Now, home they go.
At the veterinarian’s
Early in the morning,
See the little bunnies
Waiting in a row.
See the veterinarian
Give the bunnies checkups.
Hop! Hop! Hop!
Now, home they go.
Heather McPhail
Continue with verses about other animals and their sounds or actions:
“Kitties – Mew, mew, mew; Turtles – Crawl, crawl, crawl” and so on. |
BRING YOUR DOGS
Tune: “Oh, My Darling”
Bring your dogs, bring your cats,
Bring your hamsters, one by one.
I take care of the animals,
I’m a veterinarian.
Jean Warren |
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