Learning about wild animals and playing at the zoo!

We have been learning about animals and creatures of all kinds at school this year. We learned that every living thing lives in a certain habitat, and that a habitat has four things: water, food, shelter, and a place to raise babies. We have learned about the wild creatures that live around our preschool, and about birds, and farm animals, and insects and creepie crawlies. Recently we have been exploring wild animals in a variety of ways.

Building a zoo is always fun! Here a family comes to the zoo to visit the tigers.

The Orca class (4-5's) each slected an animal that lives at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. They all did some simple research about the animal's habitat, as well as something interesting about their animal. They shared this research with each other in class.

Here's another zoo. The zoo keepers give the animals TLC.

This zoo even has an animal hospital upstairs. Here comes the surgeon to care for an animal.

We went to the zoo. It was a fabulous day! Here we are watching the hippos. They were not very exciting, just sleeping.

The birds were amazing. Right above us the weaver birds were working on their nests and singing their hearts out!

We had marked maps of the zoo with our research animals. Following the map was a lot of fun. We had top plan which way we would go to see everyone's animal.

After our picnic lunch, we rode on the carousel.

And we ended that day with a roll down the hill. I am sure the animals were as fascinated watching us as we were watching them. Who is the wild animal?