Create a rainforest in a shoebox!

Use bits of recycling, paper, card, straws, leaves etc. to create a jungle scene.

Create a rainforest shopping basket!

Research what we can buy in the shops that it is grown in the rainforest.

Here’s a useful website to get you started:

https://www.ehow.co.uk/info_7839573_plants-food-products-

rainforest.html

Have a go at growing your own plant! Try to grow a quick sprouting plant like mustard, cress

or mung beans from seeds. Take pictures of them as they grow and describe the changes you

can see.

Spend 10 minutes listening to the sounds of the rainforest (there are many examples on

youtube). What can you hear? Draw a picture or write a description.

What is deforestation and how does it affect the rainforest?

Here’s some useful websites to help get you started:

https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-facts-kids

https://www.oddizzi.com/teachers/explore-the-world/physical-features/

ecosystems/rainforests/deforestation/

Leaf identification.Can you collect, research and identify as many different leaves as possible?

Who lives here?Research the people who live in the rainforest. Find out about their homes, food and diet plus

any other interesting information.

Camouflage! Find out how animals living in the jungle camouflage themselves from predators.

Write a story about some children who go on an adventure in the rainforest. See if

you can include some lovely figurative language like similes, onomatopoeia,

fronted adverbials, adjectives and powers of three.

Research an animal that lives in the Rainforest and draw it/make a model of it/write some information about it.

How is it adapted to survive there?

Write a rainforest acrostic poem – use each letter of the word RAINFOREST

How would you survive in the rainforest? Watch this short video by Lonely Planet kids and draw or

write a list of things you would need. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?

v=9D14IdTJg4E

Homework Menu Year 4 Term 4 – Rainforests