Chronicles of Summertime: Day 12

Day 12:
Today, we did a lot of indoor play. Snugglepuppy helped me put together an Elmo floor puzzle that was almost as big as him!

Snugglepuppy and I engaged in some dramatic play with food. We cooked some burgers and hot dogs and even baked a cake. All pretend of course. Being the cashier, he rang me up and gave me a total which, of course, I paid for with coins (or sometimes pickles, they look almost the same in our set, lol.)

Then I suggested we get out his little animals and some blocks to make a zoo as we haven't had the animals out in a while. We sorted the animals by water, insects, animals that fly, and all the rest we classified as animals with 4 legs. We also made a tree for the monkeys and gorillas with Megabloks. The snake didn't really have a home, so he kinda roamed free.

(Yes, he is sitting on a potty chair, lol)

After a while, the lion got a little naughty and started attacking other animals and biting them. They had to go to the doctor and rest for a while. Some of them needed bandages or surgery. But in the end, we just had to separate the lion into his own enclosure. 

We checked our seeds that we planted a few days ago, but they haven't started growing yet.

Storytime Sunday: Veterinarians

Here are the books we read last week. If you want to see previous posts on our veterinarian study, click here for set up or here for photos of the kids carrying out the activities.

This book is short and simple and goes over basic responsibilities of being a veterinarian.

This book show different tools the veterinarian uses and explains what they are used for. Very informative.

This book talks about just what the title say, A Day in the Life... from arriving at work to leaving for the day and why this person wanted to be a vet.

Sesame Street. All our kids know about Ernie! This book is great because it tells about different aspects of being a vet including going to farms to care for sick animals. The kids really enjoyed it even though it was a little long.

I'm linking up to:

Animals from Recycled Materials and More!

Here is what we did to set up our vet and continue our pets/animals study. 

First we made signs and hung them up.

 Then we pretended to be vets and fix up the animals.

 In the sensory table, we added cotton balls, bandaids made from felt, tweezers, and tongue depressors to take care of sick animals as well.

 We painted a box as a dog house.

 But, in the end, we decided we needed it more than the dog...

To extend the pet store that we have been working on the past several weeks, we put price tags on the animals that were for sale and used the cash register and play money to buy them.

And, for our last project, we painted and decorated recycled materials to make animal sculptures.

TIGER

TURTLE

LADYBUG

BIRD

SNAKES

I love this one, the little boy was determined to get the legs to stay on, but school glue just wasn't cutting it, so I got out the hot glue gun :)

Prep for Vet Study

Here are some of the things I got ready for this week's study on vets.

First, I made my own pretend bandages using felt and velcro.

 Next, I made an Open/Closed sign for the kids to color and decorate and hang in the vet's office and the actual office sign below. Or if they are so inclined, to make a sign by themselves.

 Next is an Animal Scavenger Hunt. They will take this out with them at outdoor time and circle any animal they see. Each child will also take an extra sheet home to do as homework with their families. They are also encouraged to count and write how many animals they found and where they found each animal.

Here are some tags I got ready for the children to write prices on and attach them to some of the items for sale at the pet store (We still have pet store set up in block area)

 For our sensory table, I added things a vet might use, including cotton balls, tweezers, tongue depressors, and the homemade bandages.

Our word wall words for the week.

 Our morning message for the week.

I'm pretty sure the kids are ready for this lesson as they have been "fixing up" injured and sick animals for a while now!