Saturday, May 12, 2012

Monkeys in the Emergent Layer

We spent this week talking about the emergent layer of the rain forest.  This is the very tippy top of the tallest trees in the rain forest.  There aren't many animals up that high.  There are lots of tiny birds and a few spider monkeys.  Since we talked a lot about birds last week, this week we focused on monkeys. 

We read monkey stories and sang monkey songs.  Then, we used these cute monkeys to make monkey patterns.  
We called them "cheerleader" monkeys and "sniffer" monkeys.  Everyone seemed to think those titles were funny and there was a lot of giggling that happened at the monkey pattern table.  There's nothing cuter than preschool giggles while working.  

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