Fun facts about elephants:
- Elephants are the largest land animals in the world
- they can live to be over 70 years old
- they are the only mammal that can't jump
- Elephants purr like cats to communicate
- Elephants use their trunks to defend themselves, for digging water, and for lifting things
- Elephants can swim - they use their trunks like a snorkel in deep water
- Elephants hug by wrapping their trunks together
We read:
Ellie, by Mike Wu
Always, by Emma Dodd
The Thank You Book, by Willems
Little Nelly's Big Book, by Pippa Goodhart
Where's Eddie? by Daniel Nunn
A Nose Like a Hose, by Jenny Samuels
Hooray for Hat! by Brian Won
Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems
Hiding Phil, by Eric Barclay
The Thingamabob, by Il Sung Na
Soon, by Timothy Knapman
We sang:
One Elephant Went Out to Play
One elephant went out to play,
On a spider's web one day.
He had such ENORMOUS fun,
That he called another elephant to come.
Two elephants went out to play,
On a spider's web one day.
They had such ENORMOUS fun,
That they called another elephant to come.
Three, four ...
Five elephants went out to play,
On a spider's web one day.
Mama elephant said "Come on home,
That poor spider wants to roam!"
The Elephant's Trunk
The elephant has a great big trunk (pretend your arm is a trunk)
That goes swinging, swinging so (swing your arm back and forth)
He has tiny, tiny eyes that show him just where to go (point at eyes)
His huge long ears go flapping, flapping, flapping up and down (pretend your hands are ears)
His great big feet go stomping, stomping, stomping on the ground (stomp feet loudly)
For our craft, we made - you guessed it - elephants!
For snack, we had some juicy apples! Next up: frogs!
