This week we did a jungle theme for both Totschool and Preschool. I came up with this J is for Jungle letter craft using craft foam. The animal heads were from a stick puppet kit I got on clearance from Joann’s Fabric.
Then the little girls played with jungle animals that I picked up from the Target Dollar Spot.
We also counted the animals, named them, and arranged them by size.
Each day my preschooler had a different jungle animal scissor practice page from her Kumon
I also picked up this 3-part jungle puzzle from the Target Dollar Spot (though it was $2.50) My tot had fun doing this puzzle. It was a fun addition to our unit.
At the beginning of the week we did our letter J cut and paste page, do-a-dot page, and picture cards.
I pulled out our Jungle Puzzles lapbook I made for Homeschool Share (Homeschool Share doesn’t let me direct-link, so you’ll have to scroll down to the middle of the page to find the download links)
And I made some jungle word cards to go along with our unit. You can download the word cards here: Jungle Word Cards.
And with the extra craft pieces we made stick puppets.
A monkey for my little monkey 
Books:
The Umbrella by Jan Brett
The Umbrella Unit-free download from Homeschool Share
Roar!
Touch and Feel Jungle Animals
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Looks like ya'll had a great J-Jungle week!! I'm stopping by from the Preschool Corner link up.
I love the J is for Jungle!!!! So great
Ahhhhh- this will add so much to our J study when we get there! Thank you for sharing!
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These are great hands on learning activities!
Great theme!!!
Thanks for the tip off that Target changed their bins! I ran out that day and picked up those cute 3-part puzzles and about $20 dollars worth of other stuff they had there lol
I love Target's Dollar Spot!
LOVE the J is for Jungle!
Looks like a great week! I love all of the resources that you gathered together.
Awesome ideas! We are getting ready to work on J next and I have been having the hardest time deciding what the theme would be. Love the Jungle ideas!