The Amazon Rainforest!

We travelled to South America in March and as we have a beautiful pull up book describing the animal and plant life of the Amazon river, we decided to study these animals.Once again there was great excitement as the children picked an animal to find out about.Anna was first in with her beautiful pink river dolphin project and excitedly told us that her Mummy had swam with them in the amazon river. She proudly told us all about him and that he even has 50 teeth!Saibh also did a very nice arty project on him telling us that he is endangered due to pollution and fishing nets!Lula did the howler monkey and did all the beautiful writing herself.Cara s project was on the armadillo,a most unusual mammal with a hard shell. She had a great series of pictures showing how his shell fits together when he rolls into a ball!Rian did a very colourful project on the red eyed tree frog and brought in a beautiful book all about the rainforest. Both Ceola and Moss did the jaguar ! Ceola described how he hunted and even kills caiman,snakes and deer  and Moss told us he is the 3rd biggest cat in the world and that his spots are called rosettes.Harry 3 proudly told us that the harpy eagle is one of largest bird of prey in the world  diving down from the top of the canopy to kill monkeys,sloths and snakes!Lara had an interesting project,the paca as S.America has some very unusual rodents. He seems a very cute little guy living on the forest floor and eating at night.Lana Maye had a lovely drawing of the speckled caiman for her project and she, too ,did the writing herself.We have learned so much from these projects and there is great excitement when a child brings in his project and proudly tells us about it.Thank you Mums and Dads!