Kindergarten Zoo Week!

Kindergarten students have been hard at work preparing for their exciting field trip to the Zoo this week! The students have learned all about various animals they might see at the zoo. Each subject area focused on these zoo animals in some way as an engaging way to learn new things before going on our trip. 

In reading, the students learned about a few new animals each day, listened to a story about that animal to find out some facts about where they live, what they eat, about their young, and fun facts. Then, the students learned how to create their own image of the animal, adding in the details they learned from the read-aloud. 

In math, the students completed stations each day that were hands-on and used our math manipulatives from this year. We also had a few zoo animal games, such as Addition BUMP and Memory! 

In phonics, the students did a write-the-room of our digraph words, played Zoo BINGO, and created a fun animal craft to display in our classroom. 

For writing, the students wrote opinion pieces on which animal they would like to play with. At the end of the week, the students also wrote about what their favorite animal is or which they hope to visit on our field trip. 

It has been such a fun week learning all about these animals, and the students are definitely excited to go on their field trip tomorrow and meet these animals in real life at the Brookfield Zoo!