In Kitten Class, we learned about zookeepers and decided to pretend to be a zookeeper in our lessons for Literacy Play. Literacy Play is one of the students' favorite lessons.
First, we read some books about zookeepers to know more about them. Then, we had an opportunity to “interview” zookeepers about their jobs when we went to the zoo as our field trip. Students were so excited to ask lots of questions such as “ Do they (animals) sleep outside at night?” “How many times do they eat?” This experience has helped students to understand the theme of zookeepers more deeply.
After coming back from the field trip, we started to brainstorm our ideas to make our zoo in the classroom. It was so amazing because many ideas actually came from them! We decided to make signs and animal “houses”(cages) for meerkats, cheetahs, and camels in our Art Time.
When they saw our pretend zoo for the very first time, they were amazed, “Wow! We’ve really made our zoo in our own classroom!”
After learning about some phrases, students were ready to be zookeepers. We divided into three groups and took turns to be visitors and zookeepers. Because we also provided them Q&A time in their conversation, visitors (students) enjoyed asking zookeeper's questions freely and zookeepers (students) were proud of answering the questions! Students also enjoyed pretending to be zookeepers and taking care of our animal dolls in Free Play.
Throughout our one month long project, students really loved learning about zookeepers. They enjoyed communicating with friends in English, thinking by themselves and reflecting their ideas on our project! Let's see what we will be learning about in the next Literacy Play time.
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