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The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
These activities are designed to help you learn about the rainforest and test your knowledge of the book The Great Kapok Tree.
Please complete two of the following activities. When you are finished with each one, print it out on paper and hand it into your teacher to show that you completed the assignment.
Have fun!
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| Amazon | Rain forest |
| Kapok | tree |
| Senhor | man |
| boa constrictor | "Senhor, this tree is a tree of miracles. It is my home, where generations of my ancestors have lived." |
| bee | "Senhor, my hive is in this Kapok tree, and I fly from tree to tree and flower to flower collecting pollen." |
| monkeys | "Senhor, we have seen the ways of man. You chop down one tree, then come back for another and another." |
| toucan | "Senhor, you must not cut down this tree. We have flown over the rain forest and seen what happens once you begin to chop down the trees. Only ruins remain." |
| tree frog | "Senhor, a ruined rain forest means ruined lives...many ruined lives." |
| jaguar | "Senhor, the Kapok tree is home to many birds and animals." |
| tree porcupines | "Senhor, do you know what we animals and humans need in order to live? Oxygen." |
| anteaters | "Senhor, the big man tells you to chop down a beautiful tree. He does not think of his own children, who tomorrow must live in a world without trees." |
| three-toed sloth | "Senhor, how much is beauty worth? If you destroy the beauty of the rain forest, on what would you feast your eyes?" |
| child | "Senhor, when you awake, please look upon us all with new eyes." |
| forest floor | 1st layer |
| understory | 2nd layer |
| canopy | 3rd layer |
| emergent | 4th layer |
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Fourth Grade Teacher |
East Dale Elementary |
| Fairmont, WV |
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