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A Visit to the Rain Forest Lesson PlanA Visit to the Rain Forest Lesson Plan
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A Visit to the Rain Forest

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First graders preview "The Great Kapok Tree" by discussing the cover and the tree. They read the book and acknowledge the animals. They play a sequencing game in groups to identify the order the animals appeared in the book.

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the great kapok tree, children's literature, the amazon rainforest

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