Earth Week!

Welcome back for another fabulous week of school! This Friday is a special day called, “Earth Day”. To learn what we can do for Earth Day, we are going to spend this whole week learning about recycling and ways we can help our earth. Before we gathered into a circle, we enjoyed our usual morning free play time. Today, we had the wooden train set to play with! We worked together with our friends to connect the blocks to make a huge train railway! We then used the toy trains and let them run on the rails!

After we packed away and had our snacks we gathered in a circle and sang some songs together, like the Good Morning Song and The 7 Days of the Week song. Then Nimo read us a book called, “Stella: Fairy of the Forest” by Marie-Louise Gay.

T: Forest like Forest Animals
M: I go to Forest with a car
G: I go to a big jungle. I saw a happy tiger!
K: Me too! Tiger scary!
C: I saw a cheetah.
M: I saw a panda bear and a koala.
M: I see hippo and crocodile
Stella and Sam were on their way to the forest and noticed some animals on the way.
M: A butterfly
R: Maybe butterflies eat sandwiches.
T: Those aren’t clouds, they are sheeps, they can be scary…
K: Bees! Bzzzzzzzzzz
Nimo: Oh, look! Lots of trees! Where are Stella and Sam now?
E: They are in the forest.
M: Fairy over there?!
E: Mushrooms! Yummy!
T: Bark?
Nimo: Bark is the skin on the tree.
G: I have skin!
M: I see a red bird.
T: That is a cardinal.
C: I see a porcupine and a small one in the back. You can’t touch them because they are prickly.

The forest in the book was beautiful and all the birds, rabbits, porcupines, and foxes seemed so happy. At the end of the book Stella and Sam made a little house in the forest with branches and wished they could stay there forever.

Nimo: Do you like your house?
E: Yes.
C: Ya. I have a big house.
M: I have a big house too, when I go into elevator, so many numbers.
Nimo: How would you feel if someone broke your house?
T: We can call construction to fix it.
G: I don’t want to lose my home.
Nimo: What do you think happens to the animals if someone cuts down all the trees?
G: They go back home.
C: They can live in the museum. Someone will go and get all the animals and put them in the museum.
T: Someone fix tree and they can go back.
Nimo: If there are no trees there are no more fruits, what are the animals going to eat?
Petals: …hmm…
Nimo: What are these?
T: That is toilet paper.
G: Paper towel
R: Tissue
C: Kleenex.
Nimo: What do you think these are made from?
T: Tissue?
R: They come from the tissue box.
Nimo: Do toilet paper grow on trees?
Petals: No!
Nimo: Do apples grow on trees?
Petals: Yes!
R: Then you put apple in machine and spin spin spin then Apple juice!
Nimo: Exactly! So, what do you think we put inside the machine and spin spin spin to make paper?
E: Plastic?
R: Grass?
Nimo: We saw a lot of them in the book.. It’s this one…
T: Wood?
E: Trees!

We learned that people need to cut down trees to make paper. And when lots of trees get cut down, animals lose their homes.
R: Animals sad…
Nimo: Do you think it’s a good idea to use lots of paper?
Petals: No!!! Only one tissue to blow our nose, and one paper towel after washing hands!

Thank you friends, for another fun day of school! Have a wonderful evening and see you tomorrow!

Love,
Petals