Adaptation

To end the week our centers and read alouds focused on how animals survive in winter.  Today's story was titled Animals in Winter.  Have you ever seen a butterfly in the snow?  Probably not. Butterflies can't survive cold weather, so when winter comes, many butterflies fly to warmer places. They migrate. Woodchucks don't like cold weather either but they don't migrate; they hibernate. Woodchucks sleep in their dens all winter long.   Some animals like snowshoe hares and squirrels have to adapt to winter by storing food.  Other animals like deer adapt to winter by eating the berries and bark on bushes.


During today's centers the children played a number recognition spinner game.  They each took a turn spinning. They identified the number the spinner landed on and dotted it on their squirrel recording sheet.  The first squirrel to collect all of its nuts for the winter won.  The children also cut out a tree trunk.  Glued it onto a piece of paper, and added a squirrel and nuts inside.  The tree provided the squirrel with shelter and a food storage space for winter.

Today the children also voted on their favorite animal from the story The Hat.  The animal that received the most votes was the pig.  Receiving the fewest votes was the goose and the hen.

 

Today the weather was on our side.  The sun came out just as we were getting ready to go outside.  This was great news, for we were able to go sledding as a reward for filling up our warm fuzzy jar as a class.