Elephants!

Elephants, elephants, elephants!

Preschool was awesome on Thursday. We learned so much about elephants and the places they live. We watched a few minutes of Life of Mammals and Planet Earth. On Planet Earth we watched desert elephants in the Sahara dig up roots of grasses to eat. Desert elephants only have to drink every five days! The Life of Mammals segment showed elephants actually knocking acacia trees over to eat the leaves at the top where there are few if any spines.

We read two books based on a real life elephant: Nosey. My Aunt was a child in Fresno when the children raised money through bake sales and collecting their coins to purchase Nosey for their zoo. Our preschoolers thought it was really neat to read a book about a "real" elephant!

We reviewed our digraphs: ch, wh, th and sh, reviewed and practiced writing letter "p" and did some cute elephant puzzles and finally assembled an elephant flip book.

For snack time the kids got their very own elephant trunks: bananas and ate peanuts just like elephants do! We practiced holding tails like a baby elephant does with his Mommy and curled our trunks (arms) to greet each other. Super fun, super cute day.

























The cutest elephant: