We love animals! Do you? Pre school visits the Zoo

Field trips are a wonderful way of enhancing classroom learning by making real world connections. The trips give students the opportunity to observe a particular environment that reinforces experiential and contextual learning. As a part of ISA activity, the tiny explorers of Pre school were taken on an excursion to the National Zoological Park on 15th February 2017.

Located in the midst of burgeoning urbane Delhi, near the Old Fort, this 176-acre zoo contains a motley collection of bird and animal species living in an environment that in many ways resemble their natural habitat. The park also offers a home for some endangered species.

We hopped on the battery-operated carts that were provided for the Zoo tour as moving around on foot could have proved exhausting for our tiny tots. The little visitors were welcomed by a flock of ducks and beyond them by the jaguar, alligators, the Himalayan Black Bear, a hippopotamus and the Brow-Antlered Deer.

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The children were delighted to sight the majestic White Tiger, the gigantic African Elephant, and the Bengal Tigers in an open air enclosure separated by a water channel from where we gathered. The children were curious to know more about the animals and there was a seemingly unending stream of questions from the inquiring bunch!

The zoo also had several enclosures that house migratory birds like the Peafowl, and well as the Macaw amongst others. It was a sheer joy to watch these long-tailed pretty and colourful parrots. From the roar of the lion to the chirping of the parrots, all the sounds and sights of the natural world were very exciting to the little minds. The teachers took their share of photographs with the children to make the trip a memory.

The visit provided fascinating wildlife experience to our pre schoolers, as it gave them an opportunity to observe the animals movements, their habitat and nature in general. An out-of-the-classroom exercise such as this was an enriching experience reinforcing the concepts taught in the class in a fun way!

Ms. Kritika Negi.