Mrs. Brownd's 2nd Grade Class enjoyed learning all about Costa Rica and the tropical rainforest after they read "Fernando's Gift" from their McGraw-Hill reader. They learned more facts from library books like "Costa Rica Book of Pictures", "Tropical Rain Forests", and "Stop That Noise!". The 2nd Graders really enjoyed a picture presentation from Mr. Cox, our high school science teacher, whose wife is from Costa Rica.

It has all kinds of trees. (Riley)

Costa Rica is a good place, and they have a lot of trees. There is fish. (Estefan)

They grow bananas. They live in a house. They have fish and there are ponds there. (Amber)

Costa Rica has a rainforest and it is very huge. (Matthew)

I loved the bananas they got from the rainforest. (Mark)

They wrap their tamales in leaves and they would use the leaves as their plate. (Faith)

Costa Rica is a good place and has a lot of poisonous snakes. (Adrian T.)

It's a beautiful place that has a really nice family who enjoy fooling everybody with a pig head. (Hannah)

Costa Rica is a good place to live in because they have all kinds of fruits. (Adrian B.)

Costa Rica is in the forest on Central America. There was a big waterfall. (Gabriel)

There were millions of butterfly cocoons that Mr. Cox's family enjoyed watching hatch. (Traytan)