March 21- March 25

This past week we talked about the letters S and T and learned all about zoo's and zoo animals! We had a zookeeper station set up, where students could dress like zookeepers, go bird watching, catch fish, and feed the animals. The students could wear animals stickers and then act like the animal that they had. We did several fingerplays and songs about different animals and read the stories "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?", "The Baby Beebee Bird," "I am Pangoo the Penguin," and "Good Night Gorilla." (which we read about 6 or 7 times because all the kids liked it so much!). We talked and made a list of all the things that a zookeeper is responsible for, we talked about the different kinds of habitats the animals in the zoo live in, and we made lions, monkeys, hippos, and drew zoo animal in cages.

We talked about what an adjective is and the kids listed adjectives for several different zoo animals. They practiced counting how many eyes, noses, mouths, legs, tails, horns, and wings different animals have, and then they practiced writing their numbers. We sorted zoo animals based on characteristics they have in common and we saw how tall we all were next to an Emperor Penguin.

We talked about ordinal numbers, by moving an elephant through different rings. We worked on our number recognition skills by rolling a die and coloring the number on our zoo worksheet page. We also "painted" animal crackers with corn syrup and food coloring.

We really had a fun week pretending to be zookeepers!

This week we'll be talking about Texas and the letters U and V. We are also going to be learning about pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters!


Don't forget that the Book Fair is going on this week! Be sure to stop by!


Stephanie Ray