For our week of
Elmer we focused on colors, squares, and elephants. One of the songs we sang a lot was
this one and since the children really enjoyed it, I set up this invitation to play.
We sang the song up to five elephants and then the children tried placing all ten elephants onto the web. The elephants were purchased from
Amazon and I am very happy with them. They connect trunk to tail and the children loved connecting them and playing with them. I often found them in the dollhouse.
One child connected the grouping on the left and told me he made a big circle. He then connected the four on the right and told me he made a little circle. We were joined by another child who said "That's a square! That's a square of elephants". She then leaned over and read out the numbers and told me that there were ten elephants. It was really awesome.
I often send the children home with their own mystery bag (more on mystery bags later). During our week of
Elmer, they had their very own assortment of elephants and a small spider's web to play with. We had a lot of fun.
