- Feed the monkey counting game:
- This math activity allows the students to “feed” the monkey the bananas. There are number cards that tell the student how many bananas to feed the monkey. Using a plastic tweezers, the students pick up the bananas and feed them to the monkey, counting out loud as as they go.
- Wild Animal Pattern Block Safari
- Using Pattern Blocks, the students will be matching the shapes to create the projected image of jungle animals during a center time.
- https://www.prekinders.com/pattern-block-safari/
- Jungle Animal “write the room” math activity.
- In this activity, there will be animal number cards spread out throughout the room. The students will take the recording sheet and walk around the room and record the number of animals on the recording sheet.
- Who Lives in the Jungle? Build a word book.
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Who-Lives-in-the-Jungle-An-Interactive-Build-A-Word-Book-for-K-1-2983351?item_group_id=PG_2983351
- This is an activity that has the student using letter sounds and pictures to write a book on who lives in the jungle. This can be done as a whole group lesson or a center on phonics.
- Jungle and Safari Kids Yoga
- This gives the students a movement activity to correlate with the vocab of different animals that live in the jungle. This can be used to help with the instruction of vocabulary words in a fun and engaging way.
- https://shop.pinkoatmeal.com/product/jungle-kids-yoga/
- Elephant Toothpaste Science Activity
- Pinterest https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/make-elephant-toothpaste/
- This is a fun science activity that allows students to see chemical reactions first hand, all while playing out the idea of elephants brushing their teeth with elephant “toothpaste”
- Match the Fur to the Animal Science Exploration Center
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Match-the-Fur-to-the-Zoo-Animal-Visual-Discrimination-Science-Activity-3504287
- With this center, students are able to look at a close up picture of a jungle animal and match it to a full animal picture.
- Elephant Newspaper Craft
- https://buggyandbuddy.com/elephant-craft-newspaper/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_tribes&utm_content=tribes&utm_term=421407036_14264630_270753
- This is a fun art project that uses crumpled newspaper to make the face of an elephant. The students get to crumple the newspaper themselves and then create their elephants.
- Giraffe Neck Counting
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Giraffe-Neck-Stack-Fine-Motor-Counting-4523454
- This can be done as a partner activity or a center activity. The students will choose a card that has a number on it, which is the shape of a giraffe head. They will then take the stacking counting blocks and match the number on the head. The total number is how long the neck of the giraffe will be.
- Rainforest read, build, and write sight word practice
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Math-and-Literacy-Centers-for-Preschool-Pre-K-and-Kindergarten-2411218
- This activity can be used to practice their sight words. The students need to be able to read the sight word out loud, build it with magnetic letters, and then write the word. This is good practice for the students to correlate reading the words to writing the words.
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