All About the Rainforest is the ultimate resource for teaching children about a rainforest and for practicing important language and math skills that help children make cross-curricular connections. This wonderfully illustrated thematic unit has an easy-to-use format that makes it a must-have! The five rainforest themes explored are: Walk in the Rainforest, Up into the Rainforest, Rainforest Plants, Rainforest Animals, Rainforest Family, The five sections in this book are overflowing with fun stories and activities such as: storybooks: "Walk in the Rainforest"; "Up into the Rainforest"; "Plants, Plants, Plants"; "Rainforest Animals"; "Rainforest Family", full-color storyboard pieces that make it easy and fun to review concepts while you re-tell the story, art projects: Rainforest Rain-Shakers; Rainforest Layers; Rainforest Rubbings; Hummingbird Hideaway; Rainforest Armbands, cooking: Rainforest Treats; Worms and Dirt; Rainforest Trail Mix; Butterfly Treats; Leafy Wraps, story comprehension, language, and math activity pages that are engaging and offer essential skills practice, learning centers: Raindrops; What Lives Here?; Rainforest Puzzles; Animal Memory Match; Butterfly Shapes, outdoor: Weather Ride; Sleepy Bat; Dancing Trees; Flower, Flower, Honeybee; Leaping Tree Frogs!, music/dramatic play: "Rainforest Song"; "Here We Go Round the Rainforest Tree"; "Tree, Leaves, and Logs"; "Rainforest Workers"; "Study the Rainforest", alphabet cards: charmingly illustrated, full-color, theme-based, upper- and lowercase alphabet cards, Top The colorful All About- thematic series provides the busy teacher with full-color stories and ready-to-use activities that teach skills and concepts across the whole early childhood curriculum. Each thematic unit contains five sections that support reading readiness and beginning math skills such as: vocabulary and concept development, listening and comprehension, rhyming, letter and sound recognition, patterning, numeral recognition, beginning computation, geometric shapes, Each of the five sections focuses on a different aspect of the central theme. Each section contains: a full-color, wonderfully illustrated story that introduces the subject of each unit - perfect for circle time, a reproducible minibook of the same story, full-color storyboard pieces that include a teacher script, a story comprehension page, an art project that includes a photo and teacher directions, a cooking project that includes teacher directions and a parent letter with recipe, reproducible language and math activity pages that practice early childhood acquisition skills, a learning centerthat comes with instructions and materials, a music/dramatic play activity that includes teacher directions, an outdoor activity that includes teacher directions, Plus colorful alphabet cards, teacher scripts for stories and storyboard pieces, directions on creating a bulletin board, parent letters, and much more!