Slowly goes the Sloth

Continuing on in our study of the rain forest.  We spent a day learning about the slow moving sloth. 


How slow does a sloth move?  Well much slower then the boys do. We read that it can take a sloth up to one hour to move 15 feet. To give the boys a visual, I taped off 15 feet and asked them to walk it as slowly as they could. Bryce managed to last about 60 seconds, Derek had to work really hard to last 2 mins. 

Slow, Slow, Slowly goes the sloth but not the boys.

Then we spent time making Sloth Notebook pages. All the boys drew and colored their own sloth. Next, they wrote about what we had read. I am amazed at how different the details can be and how well they are able to draw when drawing from an example.