ZOO

 Legos are always a favorite activity! 


Brainstorming zoo. We knew a lot of animals that live at the zoo. 


JOURNALS:
Our favorite zoo animals. 



Spring has sprung! 

Math number lines 1-20

Cuties in a connector frame! 



MUSIC:



Letter A and B review 

"Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?" 

Zebra finger puppets

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SECOND STEPS: Inviting friends to play


ABC line up


ART:
We finished our border pictures, played with sand, legos, beaded bracelets and enjoyed the light table. 



 

RHINO ART PROJECT



RECESS and FIRE DRILL 






You'll see throughout the blog pictures, we are trying out different ways to sit on the carpet, getting ready for kindergarten! 
Play dough and chain link fun! 



Writing/tracing practice 




Brown Bear Sequence





Concepts we brainstormed and learned about zoo animals:
What zoo animals eat and drink
Herbivore/Carnivore
How they survive 
How zoo animals move
Animal Sounds
How some animals have feathers, fur, breaks, paws, or feet
Predators/Prey

We created cages for our zoo animals.

Today Ms. Amy brought in a special show-n-tell, a snake! Don't worry it wasn't alive =) 
We asked Ms. Amy questions to try and guess what it was. 
 




Fun with paint!





We're not monkeying around in the Fish room! We did really well this following directions monkey activity. 











POLICE CAR VISIT: 






ZOO PUZZLES

We played police in the big room after the police car visit. 







Making tigers with paint and glue. 

Zoo animals play 



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The geese were making so much noise! We loved observing the geese and the sounds they were making. We couldn't figure out what they were honking about, though. 





Zoo puzzles

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Giraffe measuring and painting. "Who is taller?" "Who is shorter?" 

San Diego Zoo Cameras were really cool! We got to see lots of different animals live in action! 
Zoo animals play 



SHOW-n-TELL:

Shawn brought a lego dragon and Ryan brought a truck. 


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