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Social and emotional learning · ages 3 to 8
A child who can name a feeling no longer has to scream it out.
Five jungle animals give children the words for what they feel. Around those characters we built a complete method, for the classroom, the therapy room and the living room.
What it is
One shared language for feelings, at school and at home
Social and emotional skills do not come naturally to young children. An ordinary school day is full of tension, and that tension looks for a way out.
Jungle Buddies gives children aged 3 to 8 the words and the strategies to deal with it, step by step. Parrot, Lion, Monkey, Crocodile and Elephant each have their own character, with talents and pitfalls. Every child recognises itself in one of them.
Around those five characters sits a fully developed learning line: lesson cards, picture stories, audio stories, play material and an online platform. The teacher, the therapist and the parent all use the same language, so the message survives when the child changes context.
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LionSelf-image
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CrocodileBig emotions
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ElephantCalm
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MonkeyPlaying together
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ParrotTalking
Choose your way in
What do you want to work with?
The same method, three different ways of using it.
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For schools
Whole-school, from toddler to second grade
A continuous learning line with ready-to-teach lesson cards, classroom material and training for the entire team.
- 175+ prepared lesson ideas
- Linked to curriculum goals
- Training usable as a staff development day
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For therapists
A full year programme for group therapy
More intensive, with more repetition and an explicit focus on transfer to school and home.
- 270+ therapy cards
- Six themes with a grounded learning line
- Material for parent evenings
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For parents
Using the same words at home
Parent boxes per theme, free exercises and background on what you see happening at home.
- Ready-to-use exercises
- Parent boxes per theme
- Free game cards and downloads
In numbers
Grown with schools, not on a drawing board
- 6years developed with schools and therapists
- 100+schools in Belgium
- 1,000+teachers trained
- 3languages: Dutch, French and English
How it works
Three steps and your class is off
There is nothing you need to prepare that is not already there. The material arrives, the lesson cards are waiting online and the characters get a place in the classroom.
Getting to know them
The class meets the five Jungle Buddies. Each character stands for a skill, and children pick their favourite all by themselves.
Theme by theme
A picture story opens the theme, the lesson cards work it out. Basics or depth, you choose what your class needs.
Taking it outside
Playground posters, letters home and exercises for the living room keep the language from staying inside the classroom.
From the classroom
They already started
Clear activities, written up short and to the point. It is a relief that there is hardly any extra work involved, everything has been prepared. The children took to the characters straight away and keep comparing themselves to them. It comes alive from the very first moment.
EvelineSecond year of nursery schoolWe bought this method because we were running into a lot of difficulties in one particular class. It is such rewarding material: ready to use and well grounded. The children cannot wait to go to the Jungle class. I can really see the effect, there are far fewer conflicts.
KatrienLearning support teacherWe started this school year in the second and third year of nursery school. The method is very easy to work with. The children welcomed the Jungle Buddies with real enthusiasm. We are looking forward to discovering the rest.
ElienThird year of nursery schoolGetting started
Want to see it for yourself?
Request a free sample pack, digital or by post. You will see straight away what a lesson card looks like and what is in the box.
Or call Karolien on +32 474 80 00 24
