its a zoo...

at first i thought "hey daycare is like a zoo"

and then i realized nope 

its not

its more like a jungle

all let lose into one space

fending for themselves

will do whatever it takes 

to get what they want!

so now i dream about my daycare being a zoo

each child

in their own space

doing their own thing!

but what fun would that be?

ANIMALS CHILDREN, LET LOOSE DOING AS THEY PLEASE IS MUCH MORE FUN!!

anways...

today when i got done cleaning breakfast up

the kids were playing tigers

and they needed a zoo keeper!

so myself and another child 

fed them, put them to sleep, gave them shots

(duh, jill tigers need shots to! when i questioned why a tiger needs a shot)

played ball, and went for walks 

(walking is healthy even for tigers)
also, tigers behave much better than children!  I was amazed!

so i decided that we would do a tiger craft!

what would we do without the internet!

i love that i can google "printable tiger"

and i get all sorts of goodies!

i found this one HERE

only the older kiddos did this project!

i am trying to get better about only doing things the kids are capable of

because otherwise im stuck doing all the work

and that doesn't show what they are able to do

only shows what I am able to do with very little time!

of course my daughter was all "im not making a tiger, 

im making a cheetah!"

you would my little stubborn child that likes to do things your way!

 super impressed with how everyone's cutting skills are coming along!

only had to help a few kiddos!

otherwise they were on their own!!

they are sooo serious when they are working!  

some of the finished products!

i knew that if i had the younger kids do this i would be cutting out their pieces

and then helping them glue them together!

so of course when you want something easier

you use a paper plate and make a paper plate tiger!

paint the paper plate orange

 suck on the paint brush
(adds a little extra to the finished product)

 add, eyes, nose, and stripes

and then take a photo of cute boy saying

"look jill i did it!"

WAY TO GO BUDDY!!!

Then i found this giraffe head printable HERE

made a neck for it added some brown spots

 and then we took different toys and measured to see how long the neck was

with the different items around the daycare!

12 blocks

16 people

(notice the paper we also did milk lids which was 15 lids)

we wrote down how many of everything we measured with

people was the most

microphones was the least!

they LOVED this activity and stayed busy forever

finding different things to measure with.

it was a GREAT activity for counting, one to one correspondence,

measuring, more or less, number recognition, and even reading

  (they liked "reading" what i was writing) 

overall it was a fun day at the zoo!

we will continue on with zoo activities the rest of the week!

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