Dancing Turtles

 We continued our adventure through Brazil today by reading the book The Dancing Turtle by Pleasant DeSpain. A Brazilian Folktale that tells the tale of a flute playing and dancing turtle who tries to escape his captors.

After reading we made our own dancing turtles. The book and activity was great for making prediction, connecting texts to illustration, making inferences,   reinforcing color recognition, color mixing, fine motor control, sequencing, and following directions.

To make our turtles we painted two sides of our shells.

Then we used paper to twist our arms and legs, as well as the turtle's tail.

We added a balloon for the head...

We staples them all together (with help from Mrs. Burns and Miss Sarah).

They turned our great but we thought they were missing something...

...like a bow...

 ...and a top hat! Our Dancing Turtles are complete!

Snapshots of the Amazon

We have been having so much fun learning about Brazil! Today we talked about the Amazon River. We took a virtual tour of the river and made observations about it. We even learned that the Amazon has real pink river dolphins! We talked about the different water life that live in the Amazon River compared to what may live in the rivers in America. 

Since we took our virtual tour we made a "snapshot" of our trip. The activity helped us with fine motor control, creative expression, color recognition, and making personal connections. 

Later we had some fun catching up on a project we missed!