Zoo Animals

This week we began learning about zoo animals. We read about tigers. kangaroos, snakes and giraffes. We learned that giraffes are "unique" because they have long, blue tongues. We learned that tigers are carnivores and eat meat and giraffes are herbivores. Both are mammals, but snakes are reptiles. This is a high interest topic, so you might want to consider a trip to the zoo over Spring Break.  We did a lot of writing about animals...

We created tigers and snakes and added marble painted squares to our board...

We learned that kangaroos are marsupials - mother kangaroos have pouches for their "joeys". We like to add diagrams and details to our animal pictures. 

When Miss Marlowe came for music we sang some Dr. Seuss music...

She also helped us sing a song about our recess chart...

We have been working on being safe and respectful at recess, and have been practicing listening calmly to adults when they need to give us directions. When children run off or tell adults they don't need to listen to them, the problem gets larger. We are practicing these steps when an adult is speaking to us:
  Stop    Listen    Say OK    Do It. 

We had a great parent support group meeting the other night. One of the parents offered to organize a play date at a local park over spring break. If you would be interested in sharing your email/phone/contact info, please send it to me and I will pass it on to her.