The Rainforest Grew All Around
Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back
down again, following the circle of life in
this clever adaptation of the song “The Green Grass Grew All Around." The jungle comes alive as
children
learn about a
wide variety of the animals (jaguars, emerald tree boas, leafcutter ants, sloths, poison dart frogs,
toucans, and bats)
and plants (kapok trees, liana vines, and bromeliads) living in the lush Amazon rainforest. Delve even
deeper into the
jungle using sidebars and the three-page “For Creative Minds" educational section.
This non-fiction picture book with a cuddle factor and rhyming text includes a
3-page For Creative Minds section in the
back of the book and a 23-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. The Rainforest Grew
All
Around is vetted
by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers
with
time-saving
lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based
learning to help
build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and
dual-language
programs. The
interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed
control
to promote oral
language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Tap animals and
other things that
make noise to hear their sounds.
Year 1: Seasons
Explore outside through nature hunts,
playing outside and painting the weather. Discover how all these activities and more meet the
standards set in the national curriculum and learn more about the world all around us.
Year 1: Tell Me A Story:
One
Within this topic your child can create
their own nature story walk through words and pictures. They can design their own spoon
characters and make a story through discussion cards, plus more. Plus much more in this 6
activity topic.
Year 2: Rainforest
Habitats
Create your own rainforest habitat based
off
the Amazon. Find out how chameleons camouflage themselves by creating your own chameleon
artwork.
Year 2: Tell Me A Story:
Two
Within this topic your child can use
story
card prompts and timelines to make their own imagination come to life. Use prompts, speech
bubbles and sliding puppets to help make literacy fun.
- Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
- Format: Paperback
- Print length: 32 pages
- Dimensions: 21.59 x 0.64 x 24.77 cm
- Reading age: 5 - 8 years old
- Publication date: June 2010
- ISBN: 9780977742387
Susan K. Mitchell
Susan is a children's author with many hats in her
collection: author, mom, wife, pre-school teacher, and Spanish teacher. Susan loves creating a
silly world of words for
kids. The idea of Kersplatypus quite literally came from a word she made up when her youngest
daughter fell down one
day. Surrounded by kids all day, every day, she has no shortage of story ideas. Susan is also
the author of two other
picture books: The Rainforest Grew All Around and Stone Pizza. She has also written more than
fourteen non-fiction
chapter books for older readers on topics ranging from entertainment. to architecture, to
animals. Susan, her husband,
and two wonderful daughters live outside of Houston with their dog and two crazy cats.
Connie McLennan
Award-winning illustrator Connie spent years as an advertising illustrator before venturing
into the world of
children's picture books. Before writing and illustrating The Forest in the Trees, she also
illustrated Mother Osprey:
Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; The Rainforest Grew All Around; River Beds: Sleeping in the
World's Rivers; Water
Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean; and Octavia and her Purple Ink Cloud for Arbordale Publishing. A
fine artist as well,
Connie is married with one grown son and lives in northern California.
