Author Archives: Madison Valley

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.Continue reading “Additional Activities”

Giraffe’s Cant Dance by Giles Andreae 2. The Umbrella by Jan Brett 3. The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry 4. If I Ran the Rain Forest: All About Tropical Rain Forest’s by Bonnie Worth 5. Jungle Halloween by Maryann Cocca-Leffler 6. Slowly, Slowly, Slowly said the Sloth by Eric Carle 7. Rumble In theContinue reading “Jungle Children’s Books”

Orangutanka by Margarita Engle: This is a story in poems. This book can be used to talk about how poems look different and it is a fun little read aloud book. 2. 5 Little Jungle Critters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9drOXTzV0&feature=youtu.be This is a video of a felt board story. This is a good alternative story to listen toContinue reading “Poems, Songs, and Finger Plays”

Math: Play-do jungle number mats Standard/Rational: K.1.1.2 Understand the relationship between quantities and whole numbers up to 31. Benchmark: Read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 31. Representations may include numerals, pictures, real objects and picture graphs, spoken words, and manipulative’s such as connecting cubes. The students will get the opportunityContinue reading “Center Activities”

Paper Plate Snake Art Standard/Rationale 0.2.1.5.1 Create original two- and three- dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories. Students will be able to create snakes out of paper plates. They will be using bubble wrap to create a print on a paper plate. They will be using different media to print and will alsoContinue reading “Art Project”

Class Pet! Ellie the Elephant (Homework Bag) Rational: 0.6.3.3 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Our stuffed animal class pet, Ellie the Elephant, will getContinue reading “Communication Tool”

Rumble in the Jungle, by Gileas Andreae Rationale: This activity should be done over the course of a week, maybe 2. We will read the book as a group and revisit the book over the course of the week and learn about all of the different animals. Pointing out the big animal words and providingContinue reading “Literacy and Vocabulary Project”

Standards: 0.10.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Print many upper- and lowercase letters. Rationale: This activity can be used as a small group activity, during small group workshop time, or as a center game. This game can be varied for many different things such as word-families,Continue reading “Crocodile SNAP! Letter Recognition”

Standards: 0.3.0.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). Recognize and produce rhyming words. Rationale: For this chart project, the poem I chose has rhyming words. My main focus for this chart and for the activity following the chart is based on rhyming words to build their phonemic awareness. The activity could beContinue reading “Chart Project”

Standards: K.1.1.1 Numbers and Operations: Understand the relationship between quantities and whole numbers up to 31. Benchmark: Recognize that a number can be used to represent how many objects are in a set or to represent the position of an object in a sequence. K.1.2.1 Number and Operation: Use objects and pictures to represent situationsContinue reading “Math Lesson”