Studying Brazil-The Rain Forest

Today we "traveled" deeper into Brazil to learn more about the Amazon Rain Forest! We read the book The Great Kapok Tree where we learned about the importance of preserving the rain forest as well as kind of animals we would see if we took a trip there. After we read the book we made our very own Monkeys! We used all different shapes to make our monkey, including circles, and even a heart!

After the faces were finished we began working on the bodies. We used recycled shredding to stuff our bags we used for the bodies. 

To made the arms, legs, and tail we used a long piece of paper and crumbled it long ways.

Celebrating with Lady Liberty

We can't believe it is the end of our second week already! We had some fun with our friends today and made a Statue of Liberty in celebration of our Nation's Birthday tomorrow.

To add a twist to our project we used poms and clothes pins as a paint brush for our Statues of Liberty, as well as a stencil Mrs. Burns made us. We worked on fine motor control while holding our poms and clothes pins. We practiced making our paint jump lightly on the page to get a fun sponge painted look. We also talked about what happens when you mix red and blue! This project's end result gave us three pictures each! One of the stencil, around the stencil, and in the inside cut out of the Statue of Liberty. We had a lot of fun with this project!

Here is an example of our work before we separated the stencil from the paper.

Here is one aspect of our project - after the stencil was removed.

4th of July Fun

We are getting ready to celebrate one of our favorite summer holidays, the 4th of July! Today we spent some time on patterns, comparisons, fine motor control, concepts such as small, medium, and large, as well as fine motor control.  We used fun straws and left over Holiday decoration to compare sizes and make a necklace after our lesson.