Song: Go to the Zoo - Children's Music CDs

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Like Down on the Farm, this is a simple concept-development song. Many of our youngest learners, especially those with developmental or communication disabilities, need to have songs that target the basics and can be sung slowly. Although the lyrics are simple, they still address the concept of categorization (zoo animals) and the association of sounds with the corresponding animals. The concept of "zoo" is repeated several times, and there is ample time for the children to contribute their own animal sounds.

Lyrics
by Melinda Chalfonte-Evans
Let's go to the zoo
Let's go to the zoo
There's a lot we can do
When we go to the zoo

Oh we can hear the monkeys
We can hear the lions roar
We can hear the elephants
All these animals and many more

Bears and snakes and seals and owls
Birds that sit in the trees
Tigers prowling through the grass
Giraffes and ants and bees

Let's go to the zoo
Let's go to the zoo
There's a lot we can do
When we go to the zoo
Let's go to the zoo

Tips for Parents

Ask your child, "Can you think of any animals that live at the zoo?" and "Can you sound like a monkey (lion, elephant, snake, seal, owl, tiger, bee)?”
Use the internet to learn the ASL signs for some of the animals, and help your child make the signs as you sing the words together.
Encourage your child to act out the song and swing their "trunk," flap their “wings,” slither, or crawl as they move in time to the music.
Zoo Friends - Play this song in the background or actively sing as your child plays with a toy zoo and manipulate the animal figures.
Who Am I? - Have your child produce a zoo animal sound and guess the animal.

Books to Read With Children
Going to the Zoo by Tom Paxton and Karen Lee Schmidt
Zoo Animals (DK Finders) by DK Publishing
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Rod Campbell

This song is part of our Music in My Mouth series (created in collaboration with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Speech Pathology) which consists of the following thirteen song titles:
Ask Me
Down on the Farm
Food, It's O.K.!
Go to the Zoo
Hello, Neighbor, I'm a Farmer
Licking Lollipops
Music in my Mouth
Now You're Dressed
Randy the Orangutan
Suzie the Snake
Tip of My Tongue
Turtle Talk/Bouncing Bunny
Word Makin' Machine

This song is available in the following formats:

Download this song in MP3 format
Download all 13 Music in My Mouth songs
Receive the CD and accompanying manual via Mail (shipping/handling charges apply)
Includes 13 BONUS tracks- Friends, Hands, My Family, I've Got Two, I Can Do It, I'm Gonna Find a Way, Let's Play, Breathe, Emotion, I Get Angry, Self Control, Stop and Think, and Three Rules

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