Overview
The children will feed the letter G to a greedy gorilla as they recognize and name the letter G.

Literacy Activities
Greedy gorilla

• Write the letter G on a whiteboard, name the letter, and have the children write the G in the air with their fingers.
• Show the children the greedy gorilla puppet and explain that a greedy gorilla is a type of monkey who wants a lot of food.
• Have the children choose a letter card one at a time.
• Identify the letter on the card together.
  • If the letter on the card is a G, have the children say, “Greedy Gorilla likes G!” while they pretend to feed the card to the gorilla.
  • If the letter on the card is not a G, have the children say, “Greedy gorilla doesn’t like ___” while they put the letter card in the garbage pile.
• Allow the children to take turns holding and feeding the gorilla puppet.

More Practice
Identify the target letter

• Write a T-chart on the whiteboard. Label one column “Gobble” and place the gorilla puppet by this column. Label the other column “Garbage” and place a garbage can by this column.
• Hold up the letter cards one at a time. Have the children name the letter on the card.
  • If the letter is a G, tape the card to the whiteboard in the “Gobble” column.
  • If letter is not a G, tape the card in the “Garbage” column.
• At the end of the activity let the greedy gorilla gobble all of the G letter cards and throw the other cards into the garbage can.

Write the target letter

• Have the children write the letter G on small pieces of paper to create their own letter cards (provide support as needed).
• Let the children feed their G letter cards to the greedy gorilla.