Sunday, May 4, 2014

T is for Tiger

We learned all about tigers this week and learned that they are very interesting animals!  We had a great time comparing weights and lengths of the kids in our class to a tiger.  We measured the length of a tiger using 12 x 12 paper and we compared our own weights to that of a tiger.  We also added the children's various weights to see how many children it took to get the approximate weight of a tiger.  Another interesting thing we did was see how many cans of food it would take to weigh as much as one average tigers meal.  We also talked about tigers camoflauge.  I made a grassy scene using green construction paper and then took orange paper with different patterns (spotted, plain, & striped).  Next I stuck the patterned paper behind the "grass" and we observed which pattern blended into a tigers habitat the best.  The kids favorite activity we did was pretend to be tigers crouching and pouncing on their prey. 


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