Story time with the elephants

Book Suggestions:
The Elephant and Piggie Series by Mo Willems
  I especially like I Broke My Trunk and There is a Bird on Your Head
Little Elephant Runs Away  by Wolfram Hanel
j599.67 Face to Face with Elephants  by Joubert has great photos.
Bk & CD – Ella the Elegant Elephant  by Caramela D’Amico
Never Ride Your Elephant to School  by Doug Johnson
Right Number of Elephants  by Jeff Sheppard
Elmer  by David McKee

Synopsis of How the Elephant Got His Trunk  (reader’s theater style)

Songs & Rhymes:

An elephant walks like this and that,
He's terribly tall and he's terribly fat.
He has no fingers,
He has no toes,
But goodness gracious
What a long, long nose!
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Right foot, left foot, see me go.
I am gray and big and slow.

I come walking down the street
with my trunk and four big feet.
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One elephant went out to play, upon a spider web one day.
He had such enormous fun, that he called for another elephant to come.

Two elephants went out to play, upon a spider web one day.
He had such enormous fun, that he called for another elephant to come.

Five elephants… They had such enormous  fun
That they all had a picnic in the sun!

OR  But there were no more elephants to come.

Elephant
A circus elephant I went to see.  
(Hold hand over eyes.)
He had 4 legs and was bigger than me. 
(Hold up 4 fingers and point to self.)
He had two ears big and round. 
(Show two fingers and make a circle with hands.)
And one long nose that made a sound.   /eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/
(Put arm like trunk and make elephant noise.)

Suggested Activities: 

>See how many peanuts each child can toss into a cup or bag in 30 seconds.
-- See how many peanuts each child can toss up in the air and catch in a bag or cup in 30 seconds.
--See who can throw a packing peanut the farthest. Elephant Fact Cards - The kids always love these!

Elephant coloring pages 

Elephant cutout (color, cut out and slide finger into the hole for the trunk)