The kindergarteners and pre-k students from Thornwood went to the Houston Zoo for their spring field trip.
To prepare the students for the trip we watched various videos from the Houston Zoo YouTube channel. The students were able to share with the class which animals they were most excited to see.
April 12th finally came and it was definitely an adventure at the zoo! Our day started off quite cloudy with some sprinkles but thankfully the weather cleared up shortly after we arrived.
Our students had a blast seeing the animals that we read about in books and watched videos on. They especially loved the chimpanzees in the African Forest!
The next day at school we did some follow-up activities. For community circle the students talked about which animal was their favorite that they saw. During writing they wrote some sentences describing their favorite animal. They even created hats that they could wear, and some lions and giraffes made out of paper plates and paint!
During our visit at the zoo we asked the students to look at the features of the animals. For one of the follow-up activities we watched a video from Brainpop Jr. about classifying animals. We gathered them into whole group and sorted out toy animals by a certain characteristic (fly, walk, beak, mouth, sea creature, and etc.).
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