5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Five Little Monkeys - D'Nealian

Five Little Monkeys - Zaner-Bloser

How to use this teaching resource

• Role play by using our five little monkeys masks – great for retelling the little song.
• Play around with the song – make the number of monkeys larger and practice subtraction by making more than one monkey fall out at a time eg.  10 little monkeys jumping on the bed, 4 fell off and bumped their heads, ……….
• Print the A4 size for each child to pop into their nursery rhymes, poems and songs scrapbook – children ‘play with the words, letters and sounds’.
• Another great way to use these is to hand out the cut out sections (be it the phrases, or the words) and in groups children have to work together to place the rhyme back in order – or similarly – as a whole group start with the title – then whoever has the next section – comes forward and adds the next piece until the song is complete.
• Print (bigger onto A3 if prefer), pop onto coloured backing card, laminate and keep up on display to refer to often as a class.
• Print (larger onto A3 if you like, laminate, and cut up ready for children to reconstruct – pop into your song / poem box
• Don’t forget to really make the most of these poems / songs and put your detective hats on to search for rhyming words, circle phonic sounds, play ‘find the word’ games, look for question marks and other structures, lots of ‘playing with words’– it’s great fun to find all the word/letter patterns in poems and nursery rhymes.
• Please share your ideas with other teachers and parents in COMMENTS – below…