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:

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....