SCIENCE After reading the book, Why Are Animals Yellow (Stewart), we talked about camouflage and how animals protect themselves against prey. When learning about zebras, words like herd, habitat, hooves, grasslands, foal, mane, etc...
SOCIAL STUDIES Continuing with the book Why Are Animals Yellow, we used the maps at the end of the book that showed what part of the world each animal lives. Individually, each child examined the maps and asked questions. We spotted Africa on the map when exploring zebras. We talked about the climate and geographical features.
CIRCLE/LANGUAGE Using Handwriting Without Tears, the letters Y and Z were introduced. Using yellow yarn each child "built" a letter when the sound was given. They are progressing beautifully. Individually, we worked completed a portfolio page about foods that are yummy and yucky.
ART We decorated Y's with all things yellow like tissue, yarn, and pom-poms. We served up a plate of egg yolks. A marbled painted zebra was used in our zebra habitat project. Our Shabbat Breakfast costumes were very time consuming but so worthwhile. They thoroughly enjoyed creating their family trees.
BOOKS/SONGS "Make A Y", The Yak Who Yelled Yuck (Martin), Go Track a Yak (Johnston), "Zip Zap Zing", What If Zebras Lost Their Stripes (Haines), Zebras (Wilsdon), A Bad Case of Stripes (Shannon)
CELEBRATIONS A huge thank you goes out to Becky Goldberg (Yael's Grandma) for visiting our classroom and donating Build A Bear sewing cards for our room. She shared her sewing talents with all of us. Thank you all for attending Shabbat Breakfast. To say the least, it is a very special day for all of us and the children were so proud to share their accomplishments.
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