India and Tigers!

In Kindergarten, this morning’s focus was an introduction to India!  We talked about how India has the second largest population, at over 1 billion people!  We found India on the map in Asia, jutting out into the Indian Ocean.  Then we chose our favorite color and colored a map of India!  When I told the students that the capital is New Delhi, they all laughed at the silly name! 

India’s flag is a deep orange, white, and a dark green, with a blue wheel in the middle.  All of my friends thought the wheel looked like a flower!  As in other flags, each color means something.  In India’s flag the orange means courage, the white peace, and the green faith.  The blue means sky or water, and the wheel represents continued progress or growth.  We really enjoy learning about the flags of each country, and what they mean!  We did our best job coloring our own flags of India! 

This afternoon our focus was on tigers.  The tiger is one of the most well known animals in India.  We looked at pictures of many different tigers on the Internet, while going over some interesting tiger facts!  We also had a tiger drawing lesson!  We drew our own tigers following step-by-step directions and a model on the board.  We thought that this was a little tough, but we all did a great job!  All of our tigers turned out to be wonderfully made!  Here are a few samples of our great work!