We learned how to play a new game for centers this week! Alphabet Tic-Tac-Toe! Just like regular tic-tac-toe, except that in order to draw your X or O, you have to name the letter that is covering the space you want to use. I think we will be doing this again soon and maybe we will branch out and use other letters besides X and O to give us some practice writing.
Our group activities this week all focused on animals that live in the rain forest. It was fun to learn some of their crazy names and see all the beautiful colors of the rain forest!
On Monday we read "The Umbrella" by Jan Brett. It is just as good as all of her other books! In the story, a group of rain forest animals all float down a river in an upside down umbrella. So we painted animals and put them in our own umbrellas. I loved the things that the kids remembered from the story as they were working on this. Some even remembered where some of the animals were sitting in the umbrella.
We also practiced our counting with the Monkey Grid Game, following the same rules as the Reindeer Grid Game we played last month.
Wednesday was all about snakes! We read about different kinds of snakes and had fun looking for similarities and differences. We also made our own snakes out of cardboard tubes.
Friday was our field trip to the zoo! It was so much fun to see the animals that we've learned about! I have to say though, that I was pretty bummed that the coyotes weren't out, so next time you see a coyote running down the side of the street, make sure you point it out to your preschooler! (Maybe it's just me, put I see them pretty often!)
These were some of the kids' favorite Arizona animals.
Did you get a chance to see the tiger?
Or these adorable monkeys?I love how close you can get to them!
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