Z is for Zebra

Today our read aloud was titled Zebras.  This book is one in a series of nonfiction books by Pebble Books.  We have enjoyed reading a few books from this series.  They give us facts about where the zoo animal live, they tell us what they eat, what the group that they live in is called, as well as provides us information on the animal's habitat.  I also taught the children a new song that they giggled over.  The title is "Elephants Have Wrinkles."
  Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles. 
Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

On their toes, (echo) No one knows, (echo) why yi yi yi yiih.

Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles. 
Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

Each time we sang a verse we added another part of the elephant's body that had wrinkles.

Today the children visited the two centers that they did not get to yesterday.  One of the centers had the children make a peacock.  They cut out a peacock's body and glued it to a piece of paper.  Next, they stuck green dot stickers all over their paper.  Then they used a black marker to connect their dot stickers and added details to make them look like feathers.  Lastly, they dipped the eraser end of a pencil in blue paint and stamped a circle inside each sticker to make it look like the eye of the feather.

At my center the children played a roll and dot peacock math game.  Some children worked on the numbers they need on their classroom assessments.  Some children worked on the numbers 15-20, some worked on 20-25, and some read a short story and played an ending sound word game.