We learned where the rainforests are:
This is Amelia's, it isn't quite accurate. But we had fun looking on the map in the book and trying to locate the same area on our map.
And we talked about speech tags, that characters in the books don't always just "say" they "whisper," "squawk" and "murmur" to name a few. Each animal in the book approached the sleeping man in a different way and spoke differently.
As we read the book the girls found the correct word to match up with the picture of the animal.
We are also in the middle of making a Rain Forest Tree Pinata.
A book that we have been enjoying along with The Great Kapok Tree is
This is such a sweet little board book with lift the flaps. Unlike traditional lift a flap books the flap is not a small little flap in the middle of the page that you have to dig at to raise. The page actually folds out so the children can see the different animals that Toucan is saying hi to in the rainforest.
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That looks like a lot of fun. We really liked The Great Kapok Tree when we did a unit study of the rainforest a couple years ago and read it again recently to go along with a chocolate unit study. I'm sure the pinata is lots of fun.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! We love The Great Kapok Tree book. Thanks for joining WMCIR!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite books EVER!!! Great week!
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We love the Great Kapok Tree. We read it when we were getting ready for a chocolate tasting. I love your idea for a paper mache tree and how you focused on vocabulary from the book. Thanks for following me, I'm following you too!
ReplyDeleteMaking the pinata looks fun. I made one a while back for my dd bday. I bet she would enjoy making it again. Thanks for linking up to the NOBH!
ReplyDeletethe great kapok tree is one of my fave books! great activities here, as always!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking to the Sunday Showcase! Can't wait to see what you share with us this week.
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Great post I loved reading it
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