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Joy Delgado invites children of the world to join her this summer for Virtual Zoo Summer Camp and the best part is it’s FREE! Many zoos offer camps and it can be extremely hot to be at an outdoor camp in Arizona during the summer heat. Now there’s a nice alternative. Zebee the zebra has been talking about it quite a bit over the past several months in his blog.
Here’s the planned schedule for eight weeks of zoo animal fun,
July 6-12 Meerkat Mania
July 13-17 Leaping Lizards
July 20-24 Virtuous Vultures
July 27-31 Fascinating Frogs
August 3-7 Observant Okapis
August 10-14 Playful Penguins
August 17-21 Slithery Snakes
August 24-28 Amazing Antelope
Also FREE prizes will be awarded.
What else will this summer camp have? There will be Games, Animal Trivia, Arts and Crafts and all kinds of Puzzles. You can join today with your first name, email address and location.
Camp begins this week and there will be updates on Monday and Wednesday each week for the next eight weeks. Monday will be basic and fun facts about the animal/species for the week, videos, puzzles and some language arts stuff. Example, this week children are asked to write and submit a poem about meerkats. Then on Wednesday Joy will have arts and crafts. She’s also working on creating a coloring mural that will span the full eight weeks which at the end kids can cut out and make their own virtual zoo. Please join in the fun and Sign up now.
Joy says, “I hope it's as much fun for the children who participate as it’s been for me to create it all."0 The animal books featured are published by Laughing Zebra.

If you live with a reluctant reader, please check out Margot Finke’s website with books to catch and hold the attention of little ones, especially boys. Rattlesnake Jam is especially good and gooey, perfect for little cowboys in Arizona.