This rainforest vocabulary matching activity helps Preschool to 1st grade children match eight rainforest pictures to their words, with helper cards, a practice page and an answer key included.
This rainforest patterns activity has preschool to 1st grade children extend toucan, frog, monkey and flower patterns in a fun spinner game. Answer key included.
These Desk Name Tags - Rainforest are a perfect way for your students to identify their desks and practice spelling their name with a rainforest theme.
Monkeys, frogs and rain, rain, rain!
Preschoolers learn that a rainforest is a warm, wet forest where it rains almost every day. It is home to more kinds of animals and plants than anywhere else: monkeys, sloths, toucans, tree frogs and jaguars! They learn that animals live at different levels, from the ground up to the tall treetops. They also pick up fun new words like canopy, vine and parrot. The click moment is when a child points to a sloth and says, "That one lives up high in the trees!"
The rainforest is full of color and sound. These moves bring it into your classroom.
Show big picture cards of rainforest animals and plants and say each name together. Then have kids match each picture to its word. Seeing and saying new words with a picture helps them stick.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withRainforest Vocabulary Matching ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Turn a wall or a big box into a rainforest with three layers: the forest floor, the middle and the treetop canopy. Kids add paper animals where they live. Putting the sloth up high and the frog down low builds the idea of layers.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withRainforest Patterns ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Make up a little song with animal sounds: "In the rainforest, the monkey goes ooh ooh ahh ahh!" Add a new animal each day. Kids love making the sounds and remember each animal.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withRainforest Desk Name TagsOpen it →Turn your room into a jungle full of fun.
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Tell them it is a big, warm forest where it rains almost every day, so lots of plants and animals live there. Show pictures and play rainforest sounds.
Monkeys, sloths, toucans, parrots, tree frogs, snakes and jaguars all live in the rainforest. Kids love learning which animals live up high and which live on the ground.
Build a rainforest wall with layers and have kids add animals where they live. A rainstorm sound game with clapping and stomping is a big hit too.
Rainforests are home to many animals and plants and help give us clean air. Preschoolers can learn that we take care of the rainforest so the animals have a home.
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