All about the Farm and Zoo.

 ANIMALS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

The last couple of week's the Pre-Primaries have been learning about animals on the farm and at the zoo. These themes have provided the foundation for many rich early literacy and numeracy experiences.

I  went to the mv. by   Jaz 
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HOLIDAY RECOUNTS:

At the beginning of term we discussed all about the places we visited on the Holidays. Sharing these experiences together, supported the children in remembering their own events that they later had a go at writing their information down. The children were exposed to some everyday words and they had a go at sounding out new words. They weren't to know how to spell all the exciting places but I am always so proud of the children when they have a go at sounding out on their own. Ice-skating in Fremantle was a popular place to visit.






To begin to learn how to be a good writer, the children learnt to make labels for their pictures. The class played a "label what you see around the room" game.  They had to sound out the words on their own.











It was lots of fun labelling farm pictures that the children made from a variety of collage materials. There are so many items on a farm, which are easy to  label. Learning to hear and blend  CVC words helped the children with this activity.
Fox, hen, pig, pen, sun, dog, cat, duck, frog, mud, dig etc.
















Writing for a purpose also helps the children to see that writing can be fun but there is a reason why we do it. The children made animals out of salt dough and later they labelled their animals using some of our sight words being taught this term.

You can see them at the back of our classroom.







This is a deer.

This is a giraffe.

The children learnt many interesting facts about what pigs and cows do on a farm.  The children wrote down a fact that they could remember about the two animals. Did you know that a pig can have 14 piglets at one time? 

 

The children are learning that we can make a sentence with our words... but we can't forget the big letter at the start and a full stop at the end. 

The Pizza's we made were delicious. We talked about many food items that are grown from a farm and end up on our plates.

The children wrote and illustrated their recipe so they could make their own pizza's at home.  

The class recorded their favourite farm animals as a picture graph. There was just too much information to remember! The children worked out that more people loved the sheepdog ( a tally of 7). The fox and the sheep were not so popular ( a tally of  1 each).

This is our Writing Centre. The children can go into the area independently during the day to experiment with their writing and create their masterpieces. This term, we are focusing on labels, lists, cards and recipes.    

We love learning about different animals. Next week we are looking at our Australian bush animals.

From PPH.