The Gan Preschool Gets Class Pets
Last week, a parent in our community asked if we would be interested in re-homing her pet parakeets to our preschool classroom. Ever since they joined us, the birds have been a source of curiosity, fascination and excitement in our daily life!
Parents helped us find an ideal location for our bird home and put it up on the wall. It hangs in our art studio, a calmer center in our classroom, within the children's eyesight but out of their reach.
The Gan students love to start the morning by checking in on our new friends. They feel a real sense of responsibility for the birds' well-being. We check their water and food levels and see if their cage needs to be cleaned as part of the morning routine.
To choose our new pets' names, children first created a brainstorm list of all the names they could think of for the two birds. Afterward, teachers helped narrow it down to three favorites for our class to vote on.
The children love to draw the birds or make art as gifts for the birds in the art studio.
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