Jungle Song-Angela McKenzie

Jungle Song

I chose to read Jungle Song because I really like music and I think music is great to use in the classroom. This is a children's book about a little tapir who goes on an adventure through the jungle listening to the beat of the jungle. The entire book except for the begging and end are in song.

I enjoyed reading this book. This book is a great opportunity for children to learn about all the different creatures in the jungle or rainforest. Making learning into a song and adventure allows children to learn without even realizing they are learning. I thought that the illustrator also did a great job at including pictures of each animal on every page. The illustrations were fun to look at and try to find each animal the song is talking about. Another thing I really enjoyed about this book was that it had an underlying moral that we should not wonder away from our parents and also that our mothers love us very much.

You could do so many activities with this book. It would be easy to create a unit around this book. You could teach the class the song. Use the book to introduce different creatures in the jungle. You could find all kinds of crafts to go with the book. You could even have the children write a song about what the song of their “jungle” sounds like. Overall, I think this would be an excellent book for the classroom but it would have to be read as a group because there are a lot of semi-complicated words and children may not understand the the book is a song unless you explain it to them or sing them the book.

Moss, Miriam. Jungle song . New ed. London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. Print.