And the Rainforest grew all around, all around...

This was the beginning of a really fun unit. The kids really liked the theme book this month, and I did too. We never got tired of reading/singing it.

The learning box also had lots of fun ideas for rainforest themed snacks. We decided to make frozen bananas the first day.

These boys were super excited about this project.
Eisley not so much. Apparently she does not like bananas.

The kids got to make explorer hats and binoculars.

Then we turned on some jungle music and went exploring to see what we could find.
These guys have great imaginations and we had so much fun finding elephants, running from wild cats and ducking through all the dense green foliage.

The boys and I agreed the frozen bananas were fantastic.

Eisley enjoyed her chocolate dipped rice roller.

All the kids had pretty awesome chocolate faces by the end.

This is me trying to sneakily capture a picture of their amazing imagination play.
I am not even sure what the game was, but I know it involved dinosaurs.
They were so into this game and played for a solid 40 minutes, all of them getting along so nicely.
It was so fun to watch and listen to. I'm glad I thought we ended at 11, so they had so much extra time.

I love any excuse to make something fun, so this morning we decided to make the rainforest cookie recipe that we saw in the back of the book. The kids had lots of fun discovering how many ingredients in the cookies came from the rainforest.
Sugar, cocoa, coconut, cashews, and bananas.

They were all excellent helpers.

Then we talked about the shape of the month. An oval.

We all agreed the cookies were fantastic and had a hard time not having "just one more."
Who knew the rainforest could be so delicious?

Then we began a really fun art project that goes along with the book
that they will be working on over the next couple weeks.

This was a very art intensive day. First we talked about the letter R and rainbows.
The kids were really into coloring their rainbows and took a lot of time.
We even got out some cotton balls to make fluffy clouds.

I love how Ryan made his clouds rain clouds.Christopher took a lot of time to make sure no white was showing on his rainbow.
Eisley, of course, decided that their needed to be more pink in the rainbow.

 These boys were VERY into coloring their purple, green and brown books. They spent a lot of time on them, and Eisley was trying very hard to be patient waiting for them to come play with her. She loved that dinosaur pretend game from the other day and wanted to play again.

More and more crafts.

I always tell myself I will be better about writing down funny things the kids do and say during class, but then I don't. At least I got lots of pictures though. It really was a very fun week of school.