South America- Amazon Rain Forest

I decided for the sake of my own thought process, to split South America into sections.

We started in the Amazon Rain Forest.
(we later moved to the Andes mountains)

The BYL curriculum has a lot of the stories we read when we focused on Central America listed for literature, so I wanted to find something else for the Amazon.

Here is what we did:

We LOVED Journey to the River Sea 

Which is a great story of an English orphan girl sent to live with a relatives in Menaus on the Amazon River.
I found this free discussion guide to go along with the book.


Read:
Magic Tree House Afternoon on the Amazon

Which was a great quick introduction to the layers of the rain forest and a few animals, but the storyline was meh.

Somewhere I learned that Pink River Dolphins are a think and only live in the Amazon, so we got some books from the library
Journey of the Pink Dolphins


Pink River Dolphins (Jungle Babies of the Amazon)

(this was a great simple book that my 4 year old preferred)

Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon


and found Mystery of the Pink Dolphin  video on Prime, which was really interesting.


For folk tales, we read
The Princess of the Springs


The How Birds Got Bright Feathers story from Usborne Stories from Around the World
and
the Jaguar story in Usborne Fables from Around the World 

We also read The Great Kapok Tree

(quite a few times)

We read Living in.... Brazil

Which was great a great addition to the rainforest books because it showed a Brazilian child's life which was not all about the rainforest.

We found a few documentaries on Prime including:
Seven Wonders of Brazil
and
4000 Miles on the Amazon

The best one I thought was Amazon Souls


And of course, we had to watch Rio

And I wish we would have watched Fern Gully!


For grammar I had found some worksheet pages in a workbook that were about snakes that we used during this time too, because why not? One was similar to this:


I also had a rainforest special edition of Kids magazine that we read and we labeled parts of the rainforest on a worksheet. We also checked out a few more books about the rainforest and Brazil specifically from the library.

I had grand ideas to build a rain forest diorama similar to this: 


but that did not happen yet (althought I did save some supplies so perhaps we still will).