In The Rainforest

We started learning in the rainforest last week! Our focus letter was Uu, and we used Jan Brett's The Umbrella to introduce some rainforest animal friends. Similar to her book The Mitten that we had so much fun with in January, this story has animals creep into an umbrella one by one, unseen by a boy that went in the rainforest just to find animals. After spending a couple of days with the book, we moved on to colorful rainforest frogs and the frog life cycle.

Here we are making our retelling story prop for The Umbrella. These came home last week with a story summary. As we read through the book, we found the corresponding animal card and slid it down our umbrella handle to join the others.

A big favorite this past week has been the rainforest animals story bucket. The children have been making their own stories and play scenes with small rainforest animals and trees. This was the assigned center originally only for one day, but has been requested every day since then as an extra choice!

The Frog Pond! The thick slimy water (Squishy Baff was added) hid a variety of colorful frogs, slippery water bead frog eggs, tadpoles and lily pads.

learning about life cycles

We've also been practicing our reading, sight words, and color words. We painted some frog cutouts, then wrote sentences using sight and color words. Some more color word practice happened by using clothes pins with letters on them to spell. At circle time, we built sight word sentences.