Desert Animals

Today we learned about desert animals. We read Stellaluna, and looked at pictures of desert animals. We liked the bats, and road runner, and the tortoise.


For art, we made a big cactus with thorns, and a rattlesnake resting under the cactus.
Gross motor was quite fun today. The children placed a ball between their legs and walked like a penguin. (The arctic is a desert.) And then I put a blue blanket on the ground to symbolize water. I had the blanket folded thin, and then had the children broad jump over it. The water would gradually get wider and wider. The children did really well with the challenge of still broad jumping over a wide river.

We ended with a fun matching game of all the desert animals. We even had to play it twice. They were much faster the second time through, they learned they had to remember where all the pictures were.