🤸 Animal Walk Safari
Safari de Animales
🤸 Motor Skills
PE.K.1WL.K.1
Objective: Child practices gross motor coordination and locomotor patterns by imitating animal movements on command.
🧺 Materials
- open floor space
- optional animal picture cards
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Clear a path across the room or yard so your child can move freely.
- Call out an animal in Spanish and act it out together (hop like a frog, stomp like an elephant).
- Switch animals every 20-30 seconds to keep the body moving in new ways.
- Let your child pick the last animal and be the leader while you copy them.
- Cool down by walking slowly like a sleepy turtle back to the start.
➕ Extension ideas
- Add a sound for each animal so your child says the noise as they move.
- Play music and freeze like a statue every time it stops.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Hoy vamos a un safari, mi amor. Cuando yo diga un animal, lo hacemos con todo el cuerpo: brinca como la rana, camina lento como la tortuga y corre como el caballo. ¡Salta, gira y ruge bien fuerte conmigo!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Qué animal salta más alto, la rana o el conejo?
- ¿Cómo camina el elefante, rápido o despacio?
- ¿Qué animal quieres ser tú ahora?
- ¿Puedes rugir como el león bien fuerte?
🔑 Vocabulary
- salta — jump
- corre — run
- camina — walk
- gira — turn
- brinca — hop
- ruge — roar
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Pick just three animals and do each one twice while you call 'salta', 'corre', 'gira'.
🚗 Car version
Play 'name that animal' in Spanish and wiggle hands or shoulders to act it out in the seat.
😴 No-energy version
Sit on the floor and only move arms like a slow elephant trunk or flapping bird while saying the Spanish words.
🎯 California standards covered
| PE.K.1 | Moving My Body “I can run, jump, hop, and balance while I move my body.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |