Moving on with the animal vocabulary learning, the 1st Grade pupils prepared their zoo animals, which they then placed in the zoo. There was some discussion about what the zoo should be like, so they proposed the layout and the areas it should include.

Ofcourse, there should be a tree for the monkeys, lots of grass for the elephants and zebras and a pond for the hippos. Great concern arised with the birds, because they should be kept in a cage, “otherwise they will fly away, miss!”

With that in mind, I started browsing the internet for some easy cage craft ideas and frankly, I found so many brilliant ones! I was thrilled with this particular one -as well as the full site itself- at dltk-kids.com  because it looked so nice, easy and neat. That’s how it proved to be!

Apart from the activities suggested in the curriculum, we also learned simple animal related action verbs like “run, eat, sleep, fly, swim, etc”, which we used to play Simon Says and charades. Enjoy the zoo crafts the A1 and A2 classes have made!

a detail of the birds cage