The children in the classroom have
been very interested in animals and how they move. Several of the children are excited about the
pretend animals we have in the room and how they look. They have started moving them around on
various surfaces as well. We wanted to
give them the opportunity to see some animals up close and see their movements
first-hand.
Ms. Kurtjian recently got gerbils in
her classroom. Her children have been
excited about them so we decided to bring them into our classroom so we could
see how they moved.
For
safety reasons, we placed them in their ball so they could move on the ground
and the children couldn’t touch them.
The children would be able to see them and how they move in the clear
ball, but everyone would be able to stay safe.
At first the children did not know
what to make of the gerbils. They seemed
confused at first and weren’t sure what they were. I provided them with the name, gerbil, and
after that we started to focus on the movements. The children seemed surprised when the
gerbils began to roll around the classroom in their ball. The children were trying to predict where
they would go.
