If there is a great book for young kids, this is it.

Fun, colorful and with a great video to go along with it, this book as been a favorite of mine for a while.

Come to mention it, pretty much all of the Barefoot Books are great, and they all include fun videos to go along with them.

Info

I chose to do this book with all of my classes. So I have actually done it with grades 1, 3 and 6.

Yes, it’s easy and fun enough for grade 1s to follow along and still cool for grades 6s if we just build in some slightly more testing activities to go along with it.

As usual, I planned this to go on for two lessons. As a side note, I’ve actually adapted this song to fit with our goodbye routine as follows:

Original:

Walking through the jungle,
Walking through the jungle.
What do you see?
What do you see?
I think I see a lion,
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Chasing after me,
Chasing after me.

I quite often use this variant for saying goodbye:

Walking out the classroom,
Walking out the classroom,
What do you see?
What do you see?
I think I see the teacher,
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Saying goodbye to me,
Saying goodbye to me.

And that gives them some smiles. Teachers are always going blah, blah, blah.

Preparation

Print these flashcards: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nqx9UtYXQiYT2K5vAsbOG9yWp10SINjqM7-StlOhlgM

Print these minicards (5 copies): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JZ8R7TZAvFB1mQSvKhl-aWCcy1eFXzsvmFrscAbqksg

The flashcards and minicards are needed for the first lesson and are resued in the second.

Lesson 1

The bulk of this class is introducing or practicing the words that they will encounter in the story.

The animals in the story include

• lion
• whale
• wolf
• crocodile
• snake
• polar bear

For the upper levels they should be familiar lion, wolf, snake and bear.

The places in the story are:

• jungle
• ocean
• mountain
• river
• desert
• iceberg

For upper levels, they already know mountain and river.

General overview:

1. Warmup with song / board writing for upper
2. Flashcard drilling
3. Hammer game
4. Matching
5. Reading

Document link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZIhZz05ghmKUvC6dVB1HXeZQ90R7ut1nv4TqpaKNFBA

Lesson 2

Practicing the material from last time.

Here is the overview:

1. Sing the song
2. Review the vocab
3. Matching / Listening
4. Game (tablet matching game)
5. Final reading

Document link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=13B4Jc29guSS_gIjf_7WZNMekntRwa_bVmrGmIkUhLN8

That should be more than enough to get you started.