We finished up our rainforest unit. Highlights included:
* Science words - camouflage, habitat
* water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation
* evaporation experiment with the aqua mat - one inside & one outside to see how the one outside had the water evaporate faster
* camouflage experiment where green toothpicks in grass were harder to find than the red toothpicks in the grass
* 4 layers of rainforest, animal facts
* Spanish song - "Yo fui a la selva tropical" mariposa, mono, vibora, hormiga
* art - made mardi gras bird masks, made monkey masks, made sock snakes using AB patterns with shapes, made ants painting paper towel rolls and adding eyes, feet, and antennae
* colored rainforest books, colored and painted rain forest mural, made coffee filter butterflies
* tasted rainforest products (mango, coffee, cinnamon, coconut, macadamia nut, chocolate, banana, pineapple) and graphed results of taste taste
* made homemade "rainforest oatmeal cookies"
* made a layered cup to eat of the layers of the rainforest
* assembled a huge floor puzzle of the rainforest
* played animals ABC lotto game
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