Colin's First Zoo Class

Colin was very excited about his zoo class. Kevin had two this summer, one in May and one in June. Colin had to wait until September 11 for his class. He was very patient. By the time his class came he talked about it for days, and even told his teachers about it.

The class was called "Romp And Stomp." In it, they talked about different animals and how they move. When he first entered the room, they had animal puppets matched with real animal parts. While all the other children were nervous and clinging to parents, Colin was comfortably moving from table to table. He started to feed some of the animals, and made their sounds.

Colin feeding the snake saying "hissssss." Then he told me it was "thirsty" and was "going over to the waterfall over there." (The waterfall was pretend.)

Putting the turtle "in his home." "Safe now."

All the kids sat around a rug on the floor to listen to stories. When the teacher would ask questions, he would shout the answer without any help from me. Afterwards the teacher brought around several animals to touch. (Frog, chinchilla, snake, bird, etc.) Colin was brave and touched some, but not all of them. Then it was art time, so Colin and I both made dragonflies.

Sitting in my lap with a penguin.

Touching the snake.

Coloring his dragonfly. I love his "working hard" face!