Who can remember what we are learning about? The JUNGLE! I wonder what animal we are learning about this week? 

Let’s use out listening ears, what animal do you think you can hear?

Animal sounds

An elephant! This week we are learning all about elephants.

We can chant this lovely chant to help us count up to number 5. 

Elephant chant

Let’s find 5 blocks and see if we can build a tower 5 blocks high.

Let’s count the blocks as we add them to the tower. 

If we do manage to build it, let’s have some fun and knock it all down again! 

Which Jungle animal are we learning all about? Elephants! 

We have some fun elephant songs that we can share together!

Elephant Dance

Elephants Have Wrinkles

Monkey Dance

The Elephant

Today we are going to make our very own elephants using a paper plate! 

Our first job is to choose a colour. Then we can use a big sponge and paint our plate to make our beautiful elephants.

What animal are we learning about? Elephants!

We can read all about elephants.

Elephants

Let’s play this fun Guess the Jungle Animal game.

I wonder what animals you all know?

Do you remember yesterday when we painted our paper plate a different colour? What colour did you paint it? 

We have turned the paper plate into an elephant. Hmmm what is our elephant missing...it's eyes!

 Can you help?

Now that our paper plate is dry it is time to stick the trunk onto the plate, do you think it looks like an elephant yet?

What’s missing?

The eyes! Let’s all stick eyes on our elephants.

Sing 'Everybody Listen' Song

Wow everyone you used great listening ears for that song, let’s share a story together about an elephant that uses its listening ears.

Little Elephant Listens

Wasn’t Little Elephant good at listening! Maybe his ears help him! I wonder if we put on our Elephant ears can we hear where the sounds are coming from?

Close your eyes and listen...

Who do you think was shaking the shaker?  

Miss Pu? 

Miss Naiya?

Now we have our shakers out, shall we use them in our songs? 

Can we play them loudly? Can we play them quietly? 

Loud and Quiet Song

Shake-a-my-egg Song

Let’s head to our Eco Garden and see what we can hear, we need to use our ‘elephant’ listening ears and listen really carefully. Did we hear the rooster, birds, Ruby? What else can you hear?

What Can You Hear?

We have loved learning all about the different animals and the sounds that they make, let’s play this game and see if we can guess which animal is making each sound!

Animal Sound Game

Let’s check out our Makaton Signs for the week: Walking Through the Jungle Song

Makaton Signs of the Week

Let’s take a look at this week's preparation for writing programme - Wiggle me into Squiggle. This week's action is:

Wiggle (1)

Wriggle me into a Squiggle Song Sheet

Our 'Sound Song' this week is for the letter 'T'

To build using a variety of resources.