Tuesday, April 22, 2008

If Our Earth Could Talk


Today we read a book called, If a Tree Could Talk by Rozanne Lanczak Williams. It reminded us how we should protect earth and that human exploitation has damaged its resources. We wrote what we thought the trees, animals, rivers, and the earth would say if they could talk. Here are a few of their thoughts:

If a river could talk it would say, “Don’t throw garbage into me. I’m going to get sick.” – Alex

If a tree could talk it would say, Please don’t stab nails into me. It would hurt.” – Ben

If animals could talk they would say, Put your campfires out. Don’t burn my home.” – Sophie

We also used recycled cans from home to use as planters for our sweet basil. Hopefully we will have as much luck with our basil as we did with our lima beans a couple of months ago!

In science we learned where on our earth the natural resources needed to make a pencil come from. Did you know the wood comes from cedar trees in California? The graphite is mined in Mexico? The eraser comes from latex found in trees in South America? The aluminum from China?
During library, I challenged the kids to check out a fiction or non-fiction book about an animal of their choice. Ask your child which animal he/she picked out.

We ended our day watching a National Geographic movie called, Save the Panda...a heart whelming story of China's living treasure in its struggle for survival.

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