Alligators

We started off our alligator day from Mother Goose Time by introducing the global friend from Australia.  We talked about how crocodiles live in Australia an alligators live in the USA.

Elli made a letter A alligator.  We also came up with some other words that started with A.

 

I drew an alligator on a rock with sidewalk chalk.  Elli collected smaller rocks and drew different animals, like fish and turtles, on them and then she fed to the alligator.  She had so much fun doing this that she wanted me to draw other animals on all the big rocks in our yard so she could feed them different foods. 

The numbers of the month are 17 and 18.  Elli worked on pulling out 17 "alligator teeth" and putting them on the counting cards.  She did this a bunch of times and then tried making alligators out of the play dough.  

It started raining so the girls couldn't make rubbings of bark.  We found other items inside that were textured for them to make rubbings with.  Once they were done they turned them into pictures of alligators with textured skin.  

The girls completed the diamond shape in their my little journals.

They had fun playing alligator freeze.  We talked about how alligators stay very still.  The girls had to freeze while counting to 20, and then they were able to crawl around like alligators and find food.  I also hid a stuffed alligator around the house and they would race to find it before they got bit.  They had a great time with today's lesson.