<strong><span style="color: #339966;">IF I RAN THE RAINFOREST  <span style="color: #000000;">Week One</span></span></strong>

Before we ventured into the rainforest, each camper was given a cardboard star.  On each point of the star they listed or drew something special about themselves.  Then they glued a picture of themselves into the middle of the star.  We now have a sky full of stars (Futurestars, that is) in our Hollywood room!

The youngest campers experienced the rainforest by listening to The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell.  Starting from the fluffiest seed on the ground and going up to the highest pod in the tree, the DUCKS learned that the rainforest is full of all different types of plants and animals.  Eventually we went from listening to the story to performing in our own rainforest theatre.

The older campers participated in a readers theatre version of "A Rumpus in the Rainforest" by Ron Fink and John Heath. The DRAGONS, HAWKS, GOPHERS, and GATORS portrayed various animals living in the Amazon.  The musical play is about a frog who has never seen the sky.  He asks several friends to take him to the top of the canopy.  The Boas, Sloths, Monkeys, Army Ants, and Jaguars all turn him down.  Eventually his friend the Toucan is able to fly him up to the sky.  At the end of the story, all the animals join together and Rumpus in the Rainforest!!

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