Let's Save Our Ocean!

The “long” wait is over! We have been waiting to start working on our very own Pete the Cat storybook. Z, Ch, K, and Ky started making their own story about Pete the Cat. They also drew and painted their pictures with watercolor. Drawing with watercolor is something new to us and we made sure to remember how to do it because we just love Pete the Cat. We like to make it the best book ever! Other friends could not wait to start theirs as well! Please keep your ideas, for your turn will be so soon😊

            Few more days and we will say bye to February and hello to March. Y had been counting the days till March because “My birthday is March. D, and Ch and Vieda, too! Y was very happy when he realized that the birthday crowns for March birthday celebrants were on the table. We also made their birthday cards as well. We hope that they will like them!

CIRCLE TIME

            Did we forget to mention that we love Pete the Cat😊 After our Hello Song, Vieda read us Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. We enjoyed counting and the process of taking away number or what we call subtraction. Of course, we love the song “My buttons, my buttons. My four groovy buttons!” and the part where we laughed so hard was when Pete had only his belly button left! Ky quickly noticed that Pete the Cat was at the beach in this book. He said, “Look this one! Beach and here (shore), no plastic and no gomi!”. It’ s lovely to see a clean beach, isn’t it?

            D and Y were so eager to read our question of the day. They said, “Do you put plastic bags in the ocean?”. While Be counted all her friends who said NO, D asked if he could say their names. He read all his friends very well! Way to go!

            Today’s question of the day left us wondering about all a picture that showed all the plastic trash in the ocean.

            Za: Danger, danger! That means the sea animals are in trouble.

            B: There is plastic in the ocean.

            K: When sea animals eat it, they can choke and they will not be able to breathe. Some plastic can also go around their necks.

            Ky: Don’t throw Mac Donald’s plastic in the ocean.

            Za: After you done with it (drinks or food), take it home and throw it in the bin.

            D: Shark bite plastic. Bad.

 If we do not throw plastic in the ocean, how come there is lot of plastic garbage in it? We had some ideas.

            Ch: Other people throw it.

            B: Some people think the ocean is a bin.

            Ky: People eat the stuff inside plastic, then people throw it. Then, whoosh! Into the ocean.

            Beatrice: Wind blows it in the ocean.

            D: Shark eat plastic. Not good.

            Ky: Shark eat nama maguro (fresh tuna) and meat.

            Da: Shark eat fish.

  Absolutely! Sharks eat fish but not plastic, which led us to another idea that Ch shared. He said, “Bags like this (plastic), it’s like a fish (showed how a bag can move like a fish) so they think it’s fish. Sharks then eat them! And yes, plastic can be blown away by the wind and could eventually end in the rivers and then the oceans.

  As our snack/lunch chant goes, “No more plastic. Save our ocean!”, we (our moms and dads!) always try to bring reusable food boxes to school. We love the ocean and would like to help save it. Just as we were thinking of other ways to help, Be brought a book that could enlighten us about this topic. Thank you so much, Be!

STORY TIME: Clean Up by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola

            Be excitedly said, “This book is about clean up!”. She continued to say, “A mommy had her arm bitten (by a shark), but she still held her baby with her other arm”. Ky noticed that “I find plastic lots here (in the beach)”. Rocket, the boy in the book, felt sad to see what was happening in the island beach. We feel the same way, too when we heard that the oceans have lots of trash in them. We love the animals that live in them, and we could not just help but to think of ways to help save our ocean.

            We learned that Rocket’s grandparents used to hold tours for whale-watching, but recently they do not spot any whales. Why is that?

            Be: Because there’s so many plastics.

            K: Whales eat plastic, and they choke. Because they can’t breathe, they die.

 Then, we looked carefully at the picture of the beach. We felt sad to see lots of garbage around the beach. Vieda said that the garbage in the ocean mostly come from the land (where we live). We saw PET bottles, tires, plastic bags around the beach. How can we help? For now, we all agreed that we should try our best to use eco bag when we’re shopping instead of plastic bags. Since there’s only a little amount of plastic materials that can be recycled, we thought that it would be a great idea if we could think of other ways to help our oceans.

  At the end of the storybook, we heard that Theresa’s mom is an artist and could be making something creative with the trash they collected. Guess what? We didn’t read the ending yet. Let’s see if we could think of something that we could make from plastic trash. There goes tomorrow’s homework. Please share your ideas and if it’s possible, we would love to do it as our project in Flowers.

  Please enjoy the rest of day! See you tomorrow!

 Love,

Flowers