Whose Prints Are Those?

July 1, 2024

Happy Monday! We’re happy to start the 3rd week of summer school! We have a lot of friends in Flowers class today and it’s been fun catching up and playing with them!

CIRCLE TIME

With so many returning friends and some new faces, we began our circle with our ‘hello song’ so that we can keep learning everyone’s name!

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Our spy-training theme is finished, and we’re onto a new one! The question of the day might help us understand what the theme is…

L started reading the question of the day before getting a bit of help from M who took us half way through the question, before calling on H to take us home.

L, M, and H: Do animals have prints?

Most of us are unsure what prints are. Do we have any ideas?

M: It’s something like spots or stripes.

T: It’s like printing on a computer. Animals can print on the computer!?

R: Like indoor feet.

H: If you stand in the sand, it makes footprints.

We looked at some different animal prints with spots and stripes and tried to guess which animal they were from!

Print 1

A: Tiger stripes?

M: Tiger

K: Cheetah

W: Tiger

Y: Tiger

S: Tiger

 

Print 2

L: Cheetah

R: Cheetah

R: Cheetah

O: Lion

M: Lion

 

Print 3

H: Giraffe

Y: Giraffe

Y: Giraffe

 

Print 4

H: Snake

T: A sweater or a snake!

Y: A kind of bird

 

Print 5

A: Zebra

T: Zebra

R: Zebra

K: Zebra

 

Print 6

M: I think it’s a white tree.

M: A wolf

H: A owl

L: Bird

S: A tree in snow and a tree in summer.

R: Owl or bird.

T: That one is a woodpecker and that one is a snow owl!

 

Print 7

R: A lion

H: A bear or a beast!

M: I think this is a lion.

We laid all the prints out on the floor and noticed their differences. Why are they different?

T: Because the DNA is different! It’s like bio luminescent! It glows in the dark because of the DNA.

M: Maybe some of them are the same but some are different. Cheetah and tiger are similar.

GUESSING GAME

We played a guessing game where one person had to guess which animal they were based on the hints the rest of the class gave them!

R – tiger

hints

T: You live in the jungle and have black stripes.

 

S – zebra

hints

K- It’s brown one.

M: White and black stripes with four legs.

R: It starts with “z”

 

R – snake

hints

R: I think it start with “s” and the color is green, yellow, and brown.

 

T – giraffe

hints

M: It has orange and brown spots.

 

M – lion

hints

R: The color is orange.

H: It looks like a bear.

T: It lives in Africa and eats meat.

 

T – owl

hints

H: When you spell the name it starts with “O”

T: Orangutan!?

H: No, other!

T Owl!

It was fun to guess which animal we were! When we were finished, we took turns looking at butterfly prints on our science viewer!

Who else’s prints will we discover this week?

See you again tomorrow!

Love,

Flowers XOXO