Week 8: African
Safari
This is our last week of the Summer Reading
Club, so since we have been learning about animals all summer, we decided to go
on a safari! To start things off I asked the kids to tell me what types of
animals they would find in an African savanna. Some of the answers they came up
with were lions, hippos, zebras, giraffes and so much more, we also discussed
how you wouldn't find any unicorns there because they live in rain forests! ;)
After we were done talking we read our first book:
Then we sang a song about zebras, this one was
called "I'm a Little Zebra":
I'm a little zebra, white and black,
With a bushy mane running down my back.
I like to gallop and run and play
In the jungle, every day.
After that we read our second book:
Then we sang another song! The Itsy Bitsy
Monkey:
The itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the
coconut tree
Down came a coconut and hit him on his knee -
OWWWWW
Out came a lion a hanging his mighty mane -
ANNNNND -
The itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the tree again.
The last book we read was:
Then after finishing our story about elephants,
we decided to make some of our own! Here's how you can too:
Materials:
- Paper plates
- Googly
eyes
- Grey knee-high
socks
- White construction
paper
- Markers
- Hot glue
gun
- Scissors
- Glue / hot
glue
Directions:
1. Take your paper plate and cut a large hole in the middle.
2. Take your construction paper and cut out two large elephant ear
shapes. (I used this stencil).
3. Allow the kids to decorate their paper plates and ears.
4. Pull the sock through the hole until there’s about an inch
poking out of the inside. Line around the hole with hot glue and put some on the
sock as well – press firmly together until it is dry (do not let the kids do
this part).
5. Glue googly eyes on the front and glue each ear to both
sides of the plate.
Thank you to everyone that came and got wild
with me this summer! I loved every minute of it and hope you guys did too!
:)
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