Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree…the story.
My preschoolers love those naughty little monkeys who boast: “You can’t catch me!” So do you think you can capture the attention of a group of preschoolers for the second day of Five Little Monkeys Pre-K speech therapy? Oh yeah. You bet.
We talked about Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed in my last post and I shared a cute FREE little monkey dot marker activity. (free download for subscribers!) Be sure to take a peek. We had lots of fun, and my sweeties were definitely up for more.
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Day two was all about Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree.
Here are the fingerplay motions:
This puppet gives me story-telling super powers!
I’m pretty much always in the preschool frame of mind. Love, love my littles!
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Five Little Monkeys activities my kids totally loved.
Five Little Monkeys Craft
How do I fit in all these activities?
I have centers set up in my preschool therapy program, and our “art” center is one stop. You may not use my delivery model, but if you do in-class therapy you could do each activity as a center, or simply use the activities over several sessions in a traditional pull-out setting. Boy, does that make planning easy! Plus the repetition is fantastic for comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and story retelling.
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The Perfect Five Little Monkeys Game
In our “activity” center, we played this fun game. Say your words and you get a monkey to put in the tree! Be careful though, because the “tree top” is attached with a magnet and will fall if you don’t balance those monkeys. And down below? There is a hungry crocodile of course!
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The perfect game to go with Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree. |
This game is called the “Monkeying Around Game”, and I see it online available from several sources if you are looking for it. (I am not affiliated in any way with this game, and get no compensation for the recommendation- I just think it’s way fun!)
FREE Home Practice Activities
I always like sending something home for carryover practice, so I created these activities. It’s a freebie available in my Teachers pay teacher’s store. This fun little collection of 6 activities (color by number, mystery squares, friendly faces and more) coordinates with my Mixed Group Magic and Quick List sets.
What that means is that there is a box on each activity where you can paste a custom list for each child, whether it’s s-blends, initial /m/, wh questions or other goals. Head over and download this Freebie for yourself and pretty please leave me feedback in my store when you do. I really appreciate it!
Find this freebie here: Five Little Monkeys Quick List Activities.
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Five Little Monkeys Quick List Activities for Speech & Language |