The Zoo Tour

As the school year finally comes to an end, (4 more days) there are water days, reading days and end of the quarter programs or summatives, as they are called at our school.  Summatives are presentions in which the students share the incredible amount of  information  they've learned throughout the quarter, with their families.  

 Last quarter, Carson was a scientist, complete with the embroidered lab coat that said Dr. Gylling.  This quarter we attended a zoo in his classroom.

The tour begins now.

There was this trio of elephants.  

See the baby elephant, sooo cute.

Their teacher, Mrs. Patterson, was the tour guide and at each exhibit she interviewed the animals about their 

characteristics, habitats, and eating habits. 

These animals were very informative.

"What are your appendages?" she asked these large animals.

What's an appendage again???

Here's the caterpillar and the butterfly.

Look at the caterpillar legs and the antenna's.  

I had perma grin at this point.

If someone wasn't smiling before, these two little guys sure did the trick.

The frog and the tadpole.

The tadpole showed everyone how he got around by shimmying his body because he has no arms.

The small crowd of parents could not contain themselves at that point.

Then we moved on to the most dangerous exhibit of all.  

The shark tank.

He is dangerous, that's for sure.

But look at the sweet baby shark. 

 Did you ever see such a petite shark in your life?

 She is tiny.

The shark was busten' a move.

He must have been a "killa" shark.

(ahem) Okay, moving right along.

Sporting the side view of the dorsal fin.

The tour ended with these animated penguins.

Then we were all welcome to tour the zoo on our own and conduct our own interviews.

Shawn was fascinated with this shark in particular.

Carley had her eye on the penguins.

Do you see the sign on the wall, in the picture above, that says "WORD WALL?"

There are words like retrogress, chivalrous, and altruistic.

These children know the definitions of those words. 

Seriously, I have seen and heard them recite the definition when called upon.

Keep in mind this is Kindergarten people.

Kindergarten in the 21st century.

No Dick and Jane here.

Here is the leader of the pack.  

The person responsible for molding these little minds.  

Mrs. Patterson.

She has done an excellent job with these children and has whipped a couple of parents into shape as well.

She is quite the gestapo. 

 I might have called her that once or twice.  To her face.  

She just tunes me out.  I'm going to miss her. Really.

Tomorrow night, Carley becomes a weatherperson.

Stay tuned.