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Rainforest Theme Ideas
By Krissy

*Hang vines (brown paper rolled up) all around your room with giant green paper leaves on them. Get a couple of stuffed or paper monkeys to hang around

*Classroom Jobs: "Hopping in to help out!" With little frogs with
students names and leaves with jobs on them.
*Classroom Events Timeline: Call it the "Swing of Things" and put a little monkey for the graphic. OR "Hopping Through the Year" with a little frog.
*Student of the Week: "Look WHO's top student this week..." with a big owl; OR "Top Toucan" with a giant toucan to display
*Word Wall: "Word Waterfall" Put up a large sheet of white paper

coming down from your ceiling, draw/scribble or paint blue lines flowing down. and keep a pile of paper fish to write important words on. Glue them on throughout the year.

*Classroom Management:
Use these layers of the rainforest...
· Forest Floor and Understory -- Margay
· Understory -- Bat, Monkey
· Understory and Canopy -- Opossums
· Canopy -- Emerald Tree Boa, Harpy Eagle, Sloth
Give each student a small animal and have every student start the day in the Canopy layer, they move their animal down a layer as they need to.

*Classroom Reward Coupons: Call them "Rainforest Rewards!" and give them out for various good reasons.

*Window Clings: Print out pictures of different rainforest animals to put all over the windows.

Also, take a look at the pictures on this page. It shows the inside of some GREAT classrooms. It makes me want to have a rainforest theme. Maybe next year...
http://www.ran.org/kids_action/kids_doing.html