Rumble in the Jungle Day 1

Finally, the day we have all been waiting for, Rumble in the Jungle Camp! Today I will blog our first session, the 9-12 class, tomorrow, I will feature the second session, the 1-4 group.  

 We started out this morning on safari, looking for jungle animals in our special tree.  We saw a macaw, monkeys, beetles, butterflies, a spider, and 2 snakes.  

Later we spotted a tiger, a leopard, and a zebra!

You will not believe what we found in our sensory table... reptiles!  

These girls are not afraid of anything!

We did a DIY snack today of Rain forest Pizza.  Each child topped an English muffin with items that originate from or grow in the rain forest.  We had chocolate chips, bananas, pineapple, and coconut.  

Our safari guide and scientist working at the "SDS Jungle Research Station".

One of our stories today was The Umbrella.  Several jungle creatures end up floating in an umbrella down a river.  We extended our story outside with our new "river" table. 

The childred loaded the boats up with all kinds of creatures, like these salamanders and frogs!  

The river table was just as cool as I had hoped it would be.  They loved it, behaved responsibly, and even stayed dry!!!

Finally, we read Caps for Sale, a silly book about a peddler who has caps for sale.  He stops under a tree to take a nap and some mischevious moneys take all  of his hats.  When he wakes up, he finds his hats missing and feels very angry.  We decided to act the story out.  Each child colored their own hat to use as props.

Here the peddler is napping under the tree.  The monkeys are sneaking up to take her caps.  

The pedder was so angy that she shook her finger at the monkeys, and what do you know, they shook their fingers right back at her.  This continued on through arm waving, feet stomping, and finally cap throwing.  Once the peddler through her hat down, so did the monkeys!  After all, monkey see, monkey do!

 For our math lesson today, we used geo boards to play Monkey See, Monkey Do math.

The children worked in pairs.  Each had a geo board and a supply of rubber bands.  Their job was to create a design or shape, and then let their partner try to recreate it.  

Look at these ts, how cool?!?

We has a super morning and a super afternoon.  Tomorrow I look forward to sharing with you how our afternoon session enjoyed "Feeling Froggy" on Day 2!