Letter to the Once-ler

                                                             Dear Onceler,

I am the Lorax…And I speak for the trees.

My trees help the animals live, and all people including you, by making the oxygen you're

breathing more fresh.The gas from your factory is slowly polluting the air. If you cut down all the of the truffula trees that you please, the animals that enjoy living here will sadly have no choice but to leave. If you cut all these trees this entire place will be nothing but dark and emptiness, I promise you.

My suggestion to you is that you try something a bit new and maybe only take the truffula fluff? There is no need for you to cut down these trees if all that you need is only the truffula fluff. This is only one of my ideas that I can think of for you and you can still make your thneeds. The trunks of the trees will be able to grow back their fluff. To and for the animals, every fruit you see before taking the fluff off a truffula tree give it to them in offer for there these are their homes and their trees too. With all the unwanted thneeds that you receive you can reuse it or recycle it as furniture, clothes, a perfume scent, carpets or small houses for the animals?

The gas from your factory is un needed, but if you can lower the amount of trees that you take the truffula fluff off to 20 or 30?Please just stop destroying nature.

This is your choice but I hope you choose the right decision…

Regards

The Lorax

L.I: To persuade using reduce, reuse, and recycle arguments

I learnt to think about the reduce, reuse, recycle in this case for nature especially the trees.

We got into pairs and thought about the issue in the Lorax.

Then we created a google doc and did some planning. We got it checked then moved onto a different doc and started to write. We had to be really convincing and persuade the Once-ler to stop, as if we were the actual Lorax. In the letter we had to include the words of reduce, reuse, recycle and the different ways he can do those 3 things. After doing all that digital work, I wrote it all down on a sheet of paper as my partner did some other work.

Setting Description - Beach(Sunset)/Carnival

L.I: To write a setting description
I learnt to describe a setting in writing with using the 5 senses, Feels, Tastes,
Looks, Hears and Smells. We picked one of the setting out of 6 that we put on a google slide. They had to
be labeled for reuse, then we would link in the attribution. We made a show description
of the photo and a tell description as a comparison

QAR Posters

                     Predicting

Predicting is your expectation of what you are about to

read, you can use your ideas or others to guess it.

You can skim and scan through the text which quickly searches through the book

find the main sentences that you think tells you what the text is

about.                                                                                 

Keys   

We Use The -

1. Title
2. Cover
3. Pictures On The Pages

     To Predict What We Are Reading.

Steps

How To Predict -

1. To predict you can’t have read the book, or you are predicting what will happen next.
2. Predicting is using your knowledge and sometimes others on what you think your going to read.
3. We use the (Keys) to predict.
4. Sometimes predict includes of questioning. We make question based off the(Keys) we looked at, then read the book and answer the questions. You can also see if your prediction was right.

 Predicting is a good way to share your thinking/ideas/expectation of the book with the          

                                                          group or teacher.

                                                         

                                                         

                                                  Questioning  

                      Questioning is using the 5 W’s and the H or using question

                                                             mark.

                 Either before reading a story, after reading a story or sometimes

                                        during a story. It sometimes includes   

                                                         Clarifying

Keys                   

We Use -                        

1. Who - (Who Are The Characters?)
2. What - (What Is Currently Happening?)
3. When - (When Did This Event Take Place?)
4. Where - (Where Did This Event Take Place?)
5. Why - (Why Did This Happen?)
6. How - (How Did This Happen / How Many Times Has This Happened?)
7. Question Marks - [To show what we know and think]

     To Question What We Are Reading

Steps

How To Question -

1. To Question you can have read the book or not read the book.
2. We use the (Keys) to question.
3. We make questions based off the (Keys), then read the book and

      answer them.

     4.    We question why things happened and think about how it can change.

                                         

L.I: To pose questions of a shared text
I Learnt to share my understanding of QAR and Questioning & Predicting
posters by making posters with my group.
As a reading group we made our understandings of the 4 types f question/QAR by
making a new title for it, a different definition, and our own logos. Me and Nyjah
Worked On the Questioning and Predicting posters while Jack and Alex worked on
the QAR, and Fau would help out on each poster.

Garbage Dreams & Schoolyard Recycling

    Play Schoolyard Recycling!                                                           Play Garbage Dreams!

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L.I: To get an understand of how to sort/order out waste.

I Learnt to properly sort waste throughout playing garbage dreams and Schoolyard Recycling

We played 2 games called (Garbage Dreams) and (Schoolyard Recycling). These games includes of sorting waste. Garbage Dreams Had options of Plastic Waste, Organic Waste, Auliamun Waste, Glass Waste, Paper Waste And Tin Waste, but to get them we had to earn money and pay. If it doesn’t go in any it would go in landfill, Sometimes you had to buy education, workers or awareness campaigns to get rid of the waste. For schoolyard recycling you had 3 options, recycling, compost or trash. To get money you had to wait for it to fall down the tub then click on it to collect it.

Mabel Pines - Character Description

L.I: To Write A Character Description
I Learnt to use figurative language to describe a character and the differences
between a literal description and figurative description.

We made a google slide and embeded  6 characters/people that were labeled for reuse and did the attribution, which was the license link, author’s page link, photo by link, and CC. We picked one of the characters/people, embedded who it is, then made a description of them and filled in their personality and look. Then made a figurative description and literal description of them.

What Is Waste?

L.I: To Understand What Is Waste
I Learnt more of waste like, the types of waste, sources of waste and what waste is itself.
We got into groups and went on a sight to get information on waste then write down our understanding of waste and the answers to - What Is Waste?, The Sources Of Waste, and the different types of waste. We made a poster of our work and inserted some photos and added there links, where they are from and who the credits are/The people who uploaded the photo.

Waste Sorting

                                  Waste

L.I: To Learn About The Amount Of Waste We Use Throughout A Week.

I Learnt about the 5 types of waste, Hazardous, Organic, Solid, Recyclable, Liquid, what they mean and the amount of rubbish the school produces. I also learnt where the waste goes and why. We got into groups of 4 and where to find either, solid, organic, or recyclable waste depending on which group you were. Then show the counters who tally on the whiteboard how much waste we have on the plastic sheet of paper. My group had over 400 solid wastes, the organic waste group had over 300, recyclable group had over 200, and the other solid group also had about 400.

         

The Goose With The Golden Eggs

L.I: To Identify Parts Of A Narrative
I learnt more understanding and got more practice of the 4 main parts of a narrative. Which are 3 of the W’s, Who, When, Where for the orientation, the problem, events, solution and ending.
We read a story called - The Goose With The Golden Eggs - and filled in the boxes with the parts of a narrative inside, the orientation, problem,events, resolution/solution and ending. Like retelling the narrative itself.

Measurement Of Class Objects

L.I: To Measure Lengths Using Non-Standard Measurements.
I Learnt How To Measure Objects Using Different Objects, And The Correct Way To Get The Closes Or Perfect Results/Answer.
We had to make 1 or 2 ruler/s on a given sheet of paper using any type of shape, most likely 3D or 2D. We measure by making sure or objects start from the edge of the paper and lining where it finished, then repeating the steps until there is no room left on the paper. We write down the shaped we used for the “ruler” and went around the class measuring objects and recording/writing them.

QAR - The Duel The Inventors Awaken

L.I - Learn to inference information using QAR strategy
I learnt more understanding of the 4 QAR questions and getting a better practice each time
I do it. I try to think about the question to see if they make sense and make sure the question went under the correct box before getting checked.

QAR - SpaceNuts

L.I to inference information using QAR strategy
I learnt to understand the 4  types of questioning -I learnt to understand and identify the 4  types of questioning - A Right there Question means the answer is in the text and is easy to find.  Think & Search is, it’s in the text but you have to search for it. Author and you means that it is not in the text but you can use your knowledge that you know from the book to make an answer. On my own means that the answer it’s not in the book, because it is like a personal question, you have to think about it on your own.
 I Learnt this by by reading the book - Space Nuts - and practised filling in some QAR questions based on the story.

A Poor Shot - A Magical Stone

L.I - Identify the parts of a narrative
To learn to identify the parts of a narrative I read - The Poor Shot - A narrative, to summarise and to
 fill in the 4 events, Orientation, Problem,resolution and the ending. We made a new title based on the story and the events.
While doing the task I learnt the definition of events in a narrative also
as well as learning the orientation of a narrative.