"It's a Jungle In Here!"

When Mrs. Oliker agreed to come back to our class and give us more drawing lessons, we had no idea what a catalyst for exploration her visit would be. The last time Mrs. Oliker taught the children how to draw all kinds of aquatic life since our class' interest was the ocean. Last week the children requested to draw elephants and lions. It was so exciting that the children begged Mrs. Oliker to come again and teach us how to draw more jungle animals.

That same day the KDH ocean in our block area had to be taken down to be scanned into a poster for the Auction. Now we had wall space to put up new artwork. The children's elephant and lion drawings were so amazing, we just had to have them up in a rain forest.  We put up green and yellow streamers. and started to put up the drawings.

Over the next few days we did two different kinds of ice painting. The children experimented with mixing colors. Blue + Yellow makes Green. Blue + Yellow + Red makes brown. We used the children's paintings to give depth to the rainforest.

Collage giraffes and tigers, animals made from recycled toilet paper rolls moved into the forest too. Jungle animals were added to the block center. Animal masks for Purim are of a jungle theme too.

 Because of the cold weather, we could only go outside for short amounts of time. Elephants, snakes and frogs could be seen moving about the classroom.

Jungle Show and Tell gave us more to discuss, books to read, lots of animals to talk about, especially the many monkeys!

An I Spy type of game was added to the rainforest.

Purim animal masks are of a rain forest theme too!

So for now KDH has left the ocean and come onto exciting dry land, the rainforest!

Morah Ruth