Transition Song: Five Little Ghosts
Materials: pictures of different animals/birds/bugs with /g/ in their name.
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: jungle, animals, birds, bugs, loud/quiet, gopher, grasshopper, seagull, eagle, penguin, dog, goat, goldfish, gecko, glow worm, gazelle, grouse, earwig, grison, sea slug, wart hog, gorilla, pig, frog, flamingo, I like/don’t like, Where questions, What questions.
Pre-Literacy: we skipped drawing the letter G this week in order to have enough time for the main activity.
This week in Large Group, Miss Carrie introduced a new game called Out In The Jungle. It's based off one of her favorite songs called Safari Song from Preschool Of Rock - Everything Makes A Sound. Miss Carrie adapted it to the large group goals.
Miss Carrie put up pictures around the room of animals we knew and animals we did not know.
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| Clockwise from top left: grouse, dog, frog, gazelle, earwig, gorilla |
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| clockwise from top left: eagle, goat, pig, flamingo, penguin, sea slugs |
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| clockwise from top: wart hog, seagull, gold fish, grasshopper, glow worm. Missing: grison, gecko, gopher. |
Out in the jungle,
what did I see?
(then everyone drummed on their legs while chanting)
Then Miss Carrie would call out a classmate's name. That person would point to an animal and name it. Everyone came to look. Miss Carrie would ask What is it? Where does it live? What does it move like? What does it sound like? Every took turns naming the animal/bird/bug. We looked at the animal to determine what it moved like : fins to swim, four legs, two legs, wings, no legs? We tried to figure out what the animal/bird/bug sounded like. We talked about if the animal/bird/bug lived on a farm, in the jungle, in the water, in the air, underground, or in caves.
Last was the fun part: WE ACTED LIKE THE ANIMAL! Everyone, even the teachers! We crawled, hopped, flew, walked on four legs, slithered, and swam. We barked, grunted, chirped, oinked, blurped (apparently that is what goldfish do according to preschoolers in the know), and chittered. We balanced on one leg like flamingos. At the end, Miss Carrie had a turn and said "I....Saw....A....HUMAN!" Wait. What is a human? Hmmm. Every class figured out that we are all humans so we walked like humans back to the rug.
DO THIS AT HOME: Use a book of animals and take turn pretending to be the animals. Get on the ground with your child and follow their lead. Where do they live? What do they sound like? What do they move like? Go to the library and find more books about animals and where they live. Go see live animals if you are near them. If you have a favorite animal do some research together to learn more about that animal.
Look at what else happened this week:
