Stage Two: Wild Animals Activity Plan
Practical Activities
Using Sound:
- Do the children have ideas of what noises these animals make? If you have access to the internet, you can find examples of animal sounds on programmes such as You Tube. For example, type in ‘Kangaroo sounds’. Such videos are also good for getting ideas for movement.
- Gibber like monkeys, roar like tigers, make munching sounds of giraffes eating, call out like gorillas, grunt like kangaroos, trumpet like elephants.
| To begin | Get the children to be quiet, then call out an animal name and let them make the appropriate sound. |
| Activity | To encourage them to start and stop making the noises when you want, hold up a stick and act as if you are the conductor of an orchestra with a baton. When you raise the baton, they make the noise, when you let it fall, they stop. You can add other ‘orchestral instructions’ in this way, encouraging them to grow louder, quieter, go faster or slower. |