We had some very exciting visitors in school recently!
We were lucky enough to have a mobile animal workshop which all the children in Early Years were able to enjoy.
The close encounters the children enjoyed with tree frogs, rabbits, giant snails, a skunk, some snakes and many other creatures provided the stimulus for some amazing talk opportunities. We were thrilled to hear the children really building up their vocabulary and talking animatedly about what they had seen, touched and experienced.
Later there was a lot of animal based role play going on and the children particularly enjoyed finding stories about some of the animals they had seen!
As well as being a fun experience the two educators who brought the mobile zoo with them were also able to talk to the children about the dierent animals, where they came from, what they ate and any important inormation or example we learned that we needed wet hands to handle the tree frog and the lady sprayed our hands with water before we stroked her!
