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Watch this video read aloud on How to Catch a Class Pet.
WARNING! The reader is really silly.
What would happen if all of the class pets escaped? What would we do?
How would you catch each of the different pets?
🦎Bearded dragon, 🐢turtle, 🕷spider,
🦀hermit crab, 🐇rabbit, 🐍snake, 🐸frog, 🐟fish, 🐁rat, 🐹guinea pig?
Mrs. Allard's Pet Escape Story
Listen to Mrs. Allard’s story about her missing snake
….many years ago when she taught 4th grade.
Thinking about the Story
Explain This Page
Can you explain what the students are doing on this page from the book?
What is this student doing?
What different pets were featured in the story?
What different plans did they try to catch the pets?
Which pet is he trying to catch and why is this funny?
Our Class Pet Activity for today!
- Which pet are you going to try to catch?
- How can you safely catch this pet and bring it back to the classroom?
- Draw your plan.
- Label parts of your plan to help explain.
- Build a model of a pet trap with Legos.
- Clean up – please don’t mix in the plastic animals with the Legos!
Note from Mrs. Allard: if you spend the entire time on making the plan and NOT doing the Lego build, that is fine!
Remember, we want to capture the pet safely!
A kindergartner's plan for catching a pet elephant. Click to see the image larger. This student spent the whole time on her plan and did not do Legos.
A kindergartener's model of how to recapture an escaped pet frog. Click to see the image larger.