Next week, our school will celebrate Read Across America Week with an animal-themed focus on literacy, learning, and family fun. Students in Pre-K and Kindergarten will participate in engaging activities that connect reading with math, science, movement, and social-emotional learning.
In Pre-K, students will explore stories through conversations about emotions and pets, using rich feeling words and AAC supports to share their ideas. They will graph who has a pet, sort and classify animals by features, and count animals from the story. Science learning will focus on animal needs and habitats, while animal yoga, movement games, and preposition play will keep students active and engaged.
Kindergarten students will enjoy a Dear Zoo read-aloud, identify story elements, and respond through writing with “Dear Zoo, please send me a pet ___.” They will graph favorite animals, sort and classify animals, explore habitats, read Ribbit in the Rain, and use animal movement brain breaks throughout the day.
The highlight of the week will be “Zoo-per” Family Literacy & Math Night on Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30 PM. Families will rotate through hands-on stations including estimation, attendance bar graphs, roll-and-record games, weighing animals with balance pans, measuring a giraffe’s neck with connecting cubes, syllable sorts, letter matching, drawing and labeling a lion, and animal-themed read-alouds.
To build excitement all week long, students and staff will also participate in schoolwide zoo-themed spirit days, encouraging everyone to dress up and show their wild school spirit!
We can’t wait for a week full of reading, learning, and roaring fun! 🦁📖✨