This week our theme was the zoo.
We started off the week by taking our train to our pretend zoo. I put some animals in shoe boxes and used yarn to make a zoo and I placed the animals around the room. We lined the chairs up like a train and pretended we were on a train driving around the zoo and looking at the different animals. I had the children try to guess the animals and what noises they make.
I took a regular paper plate and drew a lion's face then let the children color the face with markers. The older children put the glue on by themselves while I helped the younger children then they glued tissue paper around the face to make lions.
We made peacocks by coloring long rectangles from cardstock with markers then the children glued feathers on it. Then we used watercolors to paint the body, which was a long oval made from cardstock and glued that on top of the peacock's tail. We had tiny triangles for the beak and circles for the eyes and the children glued those on as well. We talked about the different shapes we used as we were making the peacock.
We colored pictures of zoo animals and posted them up in the room.
We painted paper towel rolls then once that dried I cut them to make it resemble a snake. Then the children glued eyes and a tongue on them.
We read several books about the zoo and talked about what a zoo is and what animals were in a zoo.
We talked about the sounds animals make and played with our Little People toy zoo, which also makes animal sounds.
We built a zoo with our legos.
The older children practiced their writing skills by writing the animals names while the younger children colored pictures of animals in their zoo books we made.
We started off the week by taking our train to our pretend zoo. I put some animals in shoe boxes and used yarn to make a zoo and I placed the animals around the room. We lined the chairs up like a train and pretended we were on a train driving around the zoo and looking at the different animals. I had the children try to guess the animals and what noises they make.
I took a regular paper plate and drew a lion's face then let the children color the face with markers. The older children put the glue on by themselves while I helped the younger children then they glued tissue paper around the face to make lions.
We made peacocks by coloring long rectangles from cardstock with markers then the children glued feathers on it. Then we used watercolors to paint the body, which was a long oval made from cardstock and glued that on top of the peacock's tail. We had tiny triangles for the beak and circles for the eyes and the children glued those on as well. We talked about the different shapes we used as we were making the peacock.
We colored pictures of zoo animals and posted them up in the room.
We painted paper towel rolls then once that dried I cut them to make it resemble a snake. Then the children glued eyes and a tongue on them.
We read several books about the zoo and talked about what a zoo is and what animals were in a zoo.
We talked about the sounds animals make and played with our Little People toy zoo, which also makes animal sounds.
We built a zoo with our legos.
The older children practiced their writing skills by writing the animals names while the younger children colored pictures of animals in their zoo books we made.
