We have been jungle explorers over the past couple of weeks!
We read a book called “Who am I?”
I am furry, big and strong.
My teeth are sharp.
My tail is long…
Who am I?
Caterpillar class looked at a video about jungle animals and
then sorted a group of animals in to hoops to show which ones live in the
jungle and which ones don’t. Can you think of some jungle animals? Where does a
polar bear live?
We turned our role play in to a travel agents, but our
teachers noticed we didn’t play with it very much, so they suggested we changed
it in to a jungle!
We came up with lots of ideas of what we would need in a
jungle:
Lots of trees
Logs
Bark
Waterfall
Animals
Birds
Nests
Leaves
River
Mud
People
Twigs
Stick houses
Crocodile
Paint some trees
Put in a den
Elephant – grey
Green
Brown
Pink and blue butterflies
Real sticks with leaves stuck on
Tissue paper
We gathered lots of different green and brown paper and
materials and we were very busy creating our own jungle! We found different
coloured pieces of fabric to make grass, a waterfall and a river. Some of us
created other things for our jungle, such as painted butterflies and paper
plate snakes.
Now we can play in our jungle!
Which animal will you be? Why? How can you move like your
favourite animal? What sound will it make?
We watched the Jungle Boogie to give us some ideas….
Then we listened really carefully to the beat in the music,
clapping 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. We really enjoyed dancing and playing
instruments to the music.
Here is the link to the video if you want to watch it at
home!
