The Lorax, by Dr Seuss

We all enjoyed the story of the Lorax and how he spoke for the Truffula Trees.
On the last day of term we watched the Lorax movie and shared some food
together, eating Brown Barbaloots.

However I was disappointed in how far the movie had departed from the original story. I found a version identical to the book by Dr Seuss and have included the link here if you would like to watch it with your family.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V06ZOQuo0k

Adventure in the Native Bush

After learning about how to care for our landscapes, and especially the native bush, we turned a corner of our classroom into a little piece of forest, where the children can go to read poems about the land and the features found there. We have some native birds living in our little  forest and these help us with our reading. Here is one of the poems the children can read with their puppet friends. See if they can still read it to you.

Adventure in the Native Bush.

Over the river and under the branches

Slower and slower we go

Where are the insects and the forest animals?

Slower, slower, slow.

Cheep, cheep, cheep

the birds are calling

Green leaves rustling

Off we go!

Enviro Kids in Action

At the end of our Environment Inquiry we were very daring and engaged in some social action, which was very relevant to us all... On a breezy afternoon a few weeks ago we were in the playground when some dreadful smelly smoke drifted over us and left large pieces of ash falling down on our clothes and our hair.The children commented on how their eyes stung and their throats were sore and it made some of them cough. Remember this was just as we were finishing our landscapes and Environment study so was quite a real-life situation for us to deal with. The next morning we wrote some very polite but concerned letters to all the neighbours down our road who may have been the fire-lighters. Then we delivered them to letterboxes along the way. We have had no response but we felt we had done something good in pointing out our concerns!

We walked down the road to deliver them.

 We were proud of our letters to our neighbours.