A Great Start to our Rainforest Inquiry!

It's a Jungle in Here!

We've been having so much fun learning about the animals in the rainforests of South America. Here is a peek at what we've been doing...

                                          

I was so excited to find a box of binoculars tucked away in a storage closet.  The students used them to look at the rainforest animals in our classroom.  Then they drew pictures and wrote about what they saw…

"I found a snake in a tree. It is big and blue."
A great example of how a beginner writer stretches out the word for writing.
Proper spelling is not the goal of beginner writers, rather writing the sounds that are heard. 

Our expectation here, was to have students write words and/or sentences that relate to the picture they have drawn. 

Every few days, we talk about a different animal.  So far we have studied the Sloth, the Blue Morpho Butterfly and the Anaconda snake!

Our life-sized Anaconda snake in the making.  Just need to add some paint and it's ready to go!

Blue Morpho Butterflies and grow to be 20 cm across!

Soon our bulletin board will be filled with Rainforest animals and animal facts.

Stay tuned for more about what we are learning in Room 112 in the coming weeks...