Our Trip to the Rain Forest

We have been in the rainforest over the last few weeks, and I have to say that we have had a very enjoyable time.

We began our journey by reading The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry.

We then began the construction of a rainforest lapbook. Homeschool Share

has a wonderful unit to be used with The Great Kapok Tree. It has many of the elements that we used to make our lapbook available for free. It is a wonderful site. Everyone that homeschools should check it out.

Another book we have enjoyed very much is The Rainforest Grew All Around.
We enjoyed singing the words to this book to the tune of The Green Grass Grew All Around.

They included a recipe for Rainforest Cookies in the back of this book. It included many ingredients that are found in the rainforest.

A few of the books we enjoyed are below:

Welcome to the Greenhouse

At Home in the Rainforest
To end our unit I read the chapter book, Capyboppy.
We all enjoyed this story about the world's largest rodent.