Junior Infants have gone to the jungle for the month of February and they had so much fun exploring this new world!
We read lots of books all about the jungle and the animals that live there. We loved learning about lots of different animals and the snake was a firm favorite. We learned about lots of different types of snakes and do you know that if we line up one behind the other we can stretch to 9 meters which is the same length as the green anaconda? That’s the longest snake in the world and they live in the jungle!
Junior Infants worked really hard to complete this shared writing piece on some to share some of the information we learned about snakes!
We created a jungle safari sociodramatic play area in our classroom and we used this area to explore what it might be like to go on a safari through the jungle. We needed a safari driver and tour guide, a ticket sales person and of course lots of keen tourists to go on the adventures. We were busy animal spotting, taking pictures and creating all sorts of adventures in our imagination.
We looked at the different layers of the jungle and the animals that live in some of the different parts! Did you know that there are four layers to the jungle?
We turned the area outside our classroom into a jungle, complete with our paper snakes and some of our work!
We explored clay as part of our art this month and, because we loved snakes so much, we used this opportunity to make our own snakes from clay! We had to role them, shape them, let them dry and then paint them! Luckily they are very friendly and don’t bite!
