K is for Kangaroo

Today the children learned all about kangaroos.  One of our favorite books was Marsupial Sue.  Marsupials are animals that have a pouch.  During centers today the children made a kangaroo of their own.  They also played the kangaroo hop game.  For this game they stood behind a red line.  They then tried to hop as far as they could.  When they landed they were on a kangaroo that had a number on it.  The children identified the number they landed on and then recorded it on a recoding sheet.

The favorite center for today was making a zoo.  I brought in a bunch of zoo animals from home.  The children used our classroom blocks to make a zoo for the animals.  This seems like an easy learning activity, but it teaches one of life's most important skills, which is how to get along with others.  The children tried to worked as a team to make their zoo.  They had to communicate with one another what part of the project they we working on.  They had to share resources, and when their zoo was done they had to communicate to the rest of the class what part of the project they worked on.  The sharing aspect of this project was done to provide the children with the opportunity to become more comfortable speaking in front of others.