When an animal is unfamiliar ask the students for their best guess and then turn to the last pages of the book to find the animal and its name.Īfter you finish reading, or somewhere in the middle ask the students about what it feels like to move like a sloth. Follow the energy, mood and direction of the group. Pause on each page, what is there? What do you see? The poses that you do will not necessarily follow the words, just look, listen, act out and each time go back into sloth pose and move slowly, slowly, slowly when you hear the word sloth – or perhaps not. This is not a book to squeeze in a 15 min break – leave lots of time for student led discovery. Can you move so slowly that I cannot even see you move? Ever so slowly move your arms and legs back and forth as if you were slowly moving along the branch. Start with the back cover to set the stage for this book.Īs you flip over to the front cover introduce the sloth and sloth pose (lying on your back with arms and legs in the air, hanging onto a tree limb). Rain-forest class based on: Slowly Slowly Slowly said the Sloth Here are a few tips to creating a class and learn to enjoy the slow lackadaisical side of life through the eyes of the sloth.
The other wonderful thing about this book is it works well for all ages from preschoolers through to grade 6. This fabulous book by Eric Carle is a wonderful way to explore the rain-forest through yoga poses with a quiet grounded pose to keep coming back to.
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