"Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth" by Eric Carle

January 5, 2015

It was our first day back at school after a two week vacation.  As we were eating lunch I decided to read "Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth" by Eric Carle.  
I had not mentioned that I am going to Costa Rica and began reading the story.  
After I finished I posed the question, "Where do you think the story took place?"  

There were a variety of responses, a forest, a park, the woods, the jungle and 
finally the rain forest. Well where are the rainforests?   
We looked at another book by Allan Fowler called "Living in the Rain Forest"  which 
had a map of the world and the rainforests shaded in green.  We discovered that rainforests are located in South America, Africa and parts of Asia.

I told my students about my impending trip to Costa Rica and some of the things

I would be doing while there.  They were very excited and told me to watch out for  
bats that suck your blood,  monkeys that throw things at you from high up in the trees, 
and the bugs. They were also very interested in the blog.

Even though sloths spend most of their life in the trees eating and sleeping they move on the ground slowly approximately 6.5 feet per minute.