• Learning Colors: blue, green, yellow, red, pink, purple, brown
• Learning Words: library, zoo, bus, monkey, elephant, giraffe, zebra, tiger, lion
• Understanding emotions: happy, sad, angry
• Practicing Counting (1 to 10), and Learning Shapes (circle, square, triangle
• Practicing movements
• Learning Social Skills: “Thank you”, “You’re welcome”
• Doing Things in Order (“Sequencing”): the steps necessary for going on a trip
• Practicing with pencils, crayons, scissors

• Help children set up cushions, mats or cardboard boxes in rows like seats on a bus. Or just pretend.
• Help children use crayons to color the blue, green, yellow, red, pink, purple, and brown circles on the Colors page.
• Show children the Animal Pictures. Help children name each animal.

• Animal Pictures.
• Colors page.
• Pretend Money.
• Faces: Happy, Sad, Angry.
• Shapes: Circle, Square, Triangle.

• Cushions, mats or cardboard boxes for making pretend seats of the bus.
• Paper and crayons.
• Clay or Play Doh (for Activities).

Tell the Story:
A little brown monkey is lost. He misses his animal friends who live in the zoo: the elephants, tigers, lions, giraffes and zebras. The monkey is very sad. Let’s help the monkey get back home to the zoo.

Play the Game:

1. Pretend you are getting on a bus to go to the zoo.
2. Use ten “Pretend Pennies” to pay the bus driver. Count them out loud: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. The bus driver says, “Thank you”. You say, “You’re welcome”.
3. Look! You see a little brown monkey along the way. He is lost and very sad. Show me a sad face. Let’s bring the little brown monkey back to the zoo on the bus. How many pennies does the monkey have to pay the driver when he gets on the bus? (Ten pennies)
4. What color is the bus? What shapes are the wheels? Are they round, like a circle? (Shapes & Colors pages.)
5. Look out the window of the bus. We see the library. What do we do in the library?
6. Look! A traffic light. Red lights mean the bus has to “stop”. Green lights mean “go”. (Use Colors page.)
7. You arrive at the zoo. You see a lady selling colorful balloons. Ask children to point to and name the color of each balloon. (Colors page.)
8. You go inside the zoo with the monkey. Who does the monkey see at the zoo? His friends the elephants, tigers, lions, giraffes and the zebras! Now the monkey is happy. Show me his happy face.
9. We want to feed the animals. The zookeeper is angry, and says: “Don’t feed the animals!” (Show me his angry face.)
10. But the monkey is happy. He says, “Thank you for taking me home. Come back and visit me!” Wave “good-bye”, jump back on the bus and go home.

• Show children the Animal Pictures. Ask them to name each animal and pretend to be the animals - to move like each animal and make its sounds.
• Help children draw the zoo animals or make animals with clay or Play Doh.
• Ask children to draw and color a picture of a bus with round wheels and square windows.
• Now, play other Travel Games or make up your own!