Discover the Colombian rainforest through a presentation that follows a young girl named Chayo. Chayo describes her daily life, exploring the rainforest filled with plants and animals. After getting to know Chayo, scholars go on a nature walk to discover the shapes and colors that make up the plants around them, collect a variety of leaves, and create a design using found materials.    

Concepts

leaves, responding to reading, compare and contrast, rainforests, crafts, shapes, colors, colombia

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Introduce a Venn diagram by comparing and contrasting leaves
• Create shapes necklaces in small group rotations 
• Take "I Spy" brain breaks to reinforce the shapes game from the lesson

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson is the first of six from the Rainforest Alliance early childhood activities
• To speed up the necklace process, die-cut shapes, or create a shape necklace master by tracing figures on a sheet of construction paper
• Outlines of leaf shapes are required prior to teaching the lesson 

Pros

• The lesson plan is written clearly and in detail 
• The presentation uses real-world picture examples and offers interactive questions to enhance pupil engagement  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.K.1 RI.K.10 SL.K.1.a SL.K.2 K.G.A.1 K.G.A.2