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The Great Kapok Tree
Author: Lynne Cherry
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
& Co.
2nd grade TEKS SOCAIL STUDIES 113.4 6) C, 7) B & 8) A LA & READING 110.4 3) C & D, 17) B & 20) B ART & THEATER 117.8 1) A, 3) A, 2) A & 4) B
Lynn Cherry’s story, The Great Kapok Tree lets us experience the rainforest from the point of view of the things that live there. The story helps us to understand the importance of the world’s rainforests and of the useful products that are found there. It is a story of home, community, and of the dependence that all living things have on one another.
In the art center color and
put together the Layers of the
Rainforest stand up display.
Include at least two animals
or insects in each layer.
Choose your animals or
insects from the Rainforest
Animal pages or draw your
own, color them, and paste
them in the layers that they
live in. Put your name on the
display and put it in the social
studies center.
Choose your favorite animal from the
rainforest. In the writing center write a
paragraph telling how that animal’s life
would be changed if the animal’s
rainforest home was destroyed. Write
at least five well formed sentences with
correct punctuation. Use our classroom
resources (story books, text books,
word wall, and dictionary) for spelling.
Include a picture of your animal. You
can draw a picture, use a magazine
picture, or a picture from the computer.
Websites to visit for great animal
pictures! www.rainforesteducation.com/
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/
In the story a bee tells the sleeping man
that “ all living things depend on one
another.” In the science center on a
rainforest note paper list at least three
products you and your family depend on
that come from the rainforest. Use our
rainforest product board. Stick your list on
our rainforest map in the social studies
center. Be sure your name is on the list.
With your rainforest community work up a short 5 minute play
about what the man with the ax might have said to the animals and
boy when he left the rainforest. All the students in each community
must have a part in the plays. Your plays will be presented to the
class Friday afternoon. See Mrs. Craig for rehearsal schedules.
In the computer center record a
message telling what you think
the most important resource is
that the world would loose if the
rainforests are destroyed. Include
in your message an idea about
how the world can use the
resources of the rainforests
without destroying them. Be sure
to include your name and the date
of your message. Here’s a super
rainforest resources website to
explore! www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources
Write a short story including at least three paragraphs about two things you would most
like to see and to touch if you could visit a rainforest. Tell why you would want to see
and to touch these things. Be sure your story has an opening paragraph, and one
paragraph about each thing you want to see and touch. Each paragraph should include at
least three well formed sentences with correct punctuation. Use our classroom resources
for spelling. The stories will be due for editing Thursday afternoon. We choose book
jackets on Monday, and will work on publication all week. Friday we will share our
books with the class.
Cherry, Lynn. The Great Kapok Tree. New York
Harcourt brace & Co., 1990.
<http://www.enchantedleaning.com/subjects/rain
forest/
<http//www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources
<http//www.rainforesteducation.com/