Squirrels

The squirrels on the playground have really peeked the interest of the Ganon children. Many lunch conversations have focused around the squirrels running around the playground and climbing the trees.  I set up a Squirrel and Chipmunk Provocation due to the children's interest.  The children enjoyed time exploring and playing with the materials on the provocation table.

This morning at our Morning Meeting, the children shared what they know about squirrels.  Then a child suggested we read to learn more about squirrels.  :)  Of course, that is exactly what we did...we read the book Squirrels.  The children then added the information that they discovered during reading  to our list about squirrels.

The children drew pictures of squirrels.

We continued the squirrel fun during Story Time, when we read Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping.  We discussed that this book was pretend/fiction.  As we read the book, we discussed all the ways that we could tell that the book was pretend.