MORE LORAX AND RECYCLING

To keep working on the Lorax and preserving Nature we read a few books related to this topic:

 

 We started with this amazing book, its explains how we can help the world with very simple pictures and text. (highly recomendable)

After reading it, the kids gave their own ideas and we stuck them on our truffula trees to later on complete a simple activity to decorate our bulletin board.

in relation to the lorax we also compared real trees and truffula trees:

MORE RECYCLING BOOKS:

 

My kiddos loved this book, superheroes are always great to catch their attention.

This is a very simple book explaining the importance of reuse, reduce and recycle.

With this book we saw all the things plastic can turn into.

We have been playing a recycling game from the BBC at the computers' room

we did some waste sorting activities

 we complete a chart explaining the concepts of reuse, reduce and recycle from tunstalltimes

 After seeing how we can reuse plastic and bricks kids completed this activity that i adapted from tunstalltimes

We had a residues art workshop in class. A really nice girl from the recycling center in PAmplona came to show us how to change plastic residues in art:
HAVE A LOOK AT OUR BEAUTIFUL RIVER:

SOLIDARITY TOMBOLA

These past weeks have been crazy but the tombola was a blast, lots of work but we had a great time and managed to earn some money for a school in Kenia.

Have a look at our party:

https://picasaweb.google.com/114013338120579262267/TOMBOLASOLIDARIA2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCNHvr9aL677C0AE

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HOW THINGS ARE GOING IN OUR COUNTRY

I think this video is the best example of how public education is vital to our society, and how necessary it is for us to fight for it.

CLICK TO WATCH

WORKING WITH THE LORAX

So finally we started working with THE LORAX. We were beyond excited, most of the kids had watched the movie and now they are learning about the original lorax story.



We started watching the clip and then we read the story:

 When we finished telling the story we analyzed it and we described the Lorax using the poem in the book:

 They were very interested in how the once-ler would look like so we completed this activity using our imagination. They were still a bit mad because they don't understand why Seuss decided not to show this character.

Through a poster we analyzed cause and effect in the story and we then completed this activity:

 And today we decided to show the end of the story, were the kid with our help would replant the forest and all the animals and the lorax would come back. It ended up really well, they even wrote simple sentences describing what had changed compared to the town with no Truffula trees.

NExt week we will keep working on preserving nature and we will start working on recycling ideas.

Tomorrow it's going to be a hard day because we are hosting a solidarity fair at school were we intend to reach money for school in kenya( lots of hard work). We have been working on all these concepts these days too so i will tell you how it went.


Wish us luck....

TAKING CARE OF OUR PLANTS and READING GAMES

Our plants have  really long hair so... it is time to cut their hair.

 

 

They look lovely with their haircuts

We have also been playing to fun reading games:

in the first one we read words using magnifying glasses. It was real fun

In the second game we had to throw two dice, read the word and crossed it out. If we landed in a square that had already been crossed out we lost one point and the person that crossed it out earned one point.

BOOK APPRECIATION WEEK

LAST WEEK WAS BOOK APPRECIATION WEEK AT SCHOOL and these are the things we have been doing.

Teacher's and students recommended books and the schools' front door was decorated with pictures of us with our favorite books.I recommended "alice through the looking glass" I loove this book.

Parents came to school to read books and represent stories. We are very thankful to them for coming :) so we gave each of them a diploma.

One of my little ones even tried to tell them "the cat in the hat" in english, and two of the kiddos made diplomas for him...

we read and watched "the cat in a hat". THe kiddos loooved the story, and we made hats and two rhyming activities from www.homeschoolshare.com and from www.fun-in-first.blogspot.com.

From Ms. Larremore I got this idea for a bulletin board: Where do readers read?

During the whole week kids have been bringing books to do a book exchange with their classmates so if they brought 3 books they could take 3 books from the table:

And as we are such great reader we won  super readers necklaces