Our Rainforest is Growing

We have been putting our new knowledge about the layers of the rainforest to good use and have started building a mini rainforest right in Room 3! We read a book called The Great Kapok Tree so we started with a Kapok Tree for the EMERGENT LAYER.

Teamwork has been a huge part of Room 3 recently. You might wonder what we're doing here...










We're making bark rubbings to make the trunk of the Kapok Tree look really interesting.









Cairo & Mykee are hard at work.













So are Kaylee, Kelli & Briah.














The trunk and branches of the Kapok Tree is in the background and another group are hard at work to create the leaves. We discovered that a Kapok Tree has COMPOUND LEAVES. This means one large leaf is made up of 5 to 9 leaflets. So if you come and visit Room 3 you will see that our tree has compound leaves too!










And here we all are in front of our EMERGENT Kapok Tree.







The next layers of our mini Rainforest are already under construction. Come back soon and see what they are and what they look like...