In honor of Earth Day, we planted a tree outside our classroom. We have been studying how plants are created as well as the benefits of recycling in our science class!
If your student comes home on a recycling kick today, it is because we talked about all the amazing reasons we recycle! The students brainstormed better ways to help the earth. We started a classroom project to make sure we recycle plastics, and papers!
The students are SO excited about Earth Day! Today we each wrote this poem and decorated it with our own ideas about what we should do to preserve the Earth. Make sure to ask your student about it when they get home!
Earth Day BY JANE YOLEN I am the Earth And the Earth is me. Each blade of grass, Each honey tree, Each bit of mud, And stick and stone Is blood and muscle, Skin and bone. And just as I Need every bit Of me to make My body fit, So Earth needs Grass and stone and tree And things that grow here Naturally. That’s why we Celebrate this day. That’s why across The world we say: As long as life, As dear, as free, I am the Earth And the Earth is me. Jane Yolen, "Earth Day" from The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Book. Copyright © 1995 by Jane Yolen. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Source: The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Book (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241884 Today- we worked on reading Limerick poems to conclude our poetry unit! Check out http://www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/mstar-guenther.htm if you want more fun Limericks to read with your student!
Hey Parents!
Just a reminder that Parent- Teacher Conferences are Friday, April 10th starting from 5:30 p.m. and ending at 8:30 p.m. If you have a conflict at this time and would still like to meet with me. Please contact me and we can set up a time. Look forward to speaking with you all! |
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