Rainforest Math Centers

Last week we learned about the rainforest. Here are our math centers.

Monkey Addition- 

The students fed the monkey's "bananas." They were actually craft foam that I cut on the Ellison press.

Blue Morpho Butterfly-

Yes, I know this isn't math but I had to fit this in and it's an easy independent activity. The kids covered the butterfly with blue tissue squares and I hung them on the window.

Macaw Subtraction-

The students used feathers (construction paper) on the Macaw.

Measuring Rainforest Trees-

The students used unifix cubes to measure trees and then they measured with paper clips.

Order Frogs by 5's-

The students cut out frogs that had numbers on them and then but them in order by 5's.

-Stephanie

Rainforest Activities

For the past 2 weeks we have been studying the rainforest and all of the cool animals that live there. We have turned our classroom into a rainforest and have created lots of animals. Here are a few of our projects.

Tree Frog

 The kids colored the frog and then added a tongue with bugs and wrote a math fact on the back.

Cool Crocodiles 

A teacher friend of mine was inspired by Mrs. Jump and created this crocodile. Check out the sharp teeth!

We also made snakes, toucans, and blue morpho butterflies. Here is our rainforest of vines. I bought brown and green fabric from JoAnn's and twisted it to make vines. 

Rainforest Pop-Up Book

The students were all given a piece of green paper that was already cut. They were instructed to write about their favorite rainforest animal. Then, they created a background and their animal to go on the center cut. I then glued all of these pages together to make a class pop-up book.

-Stephanie