Dear parents,
This week our unit of inquiry focussed on trees and why they are an important resource. The students learnt that trees make oxygen by taking in the carbon dioxide and we breathe the oxygen in and breathe out carbon dioxide. Juni recognised that the relationship between people and trees is a cycle. We read the Dr Seuss book The Lorax. In this story, a character called the Lorax lives in nature with many trees called 'truffala trees' and animals with clean air and water.
Then, a character called the Oncler comes along and starts cutting down the trees to make things to sell. His business starts making more money and he keeps cutting more trees down and building a bigger factory.
The Lorax isn't happy and tells him, "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees." He explains that the animals that live in this place need to trees for clean air and the fruit and a place to live. The pollution from the factory flows into the lake and the fish start dying.
The air gets dirtier and the Lorax starts coughing. But the Oncler doesn't listen and cuts down all the trees.
So then he can't make anymore things to sell and packs up his car and leaves. At the end of the story, the boy is given the last truffala tree seed by the Oncler who is now very old and regrets what he did. He says to the boy, now it is up to you to make this seed grow and bring back the trees.
In literacy, we practised writing letter u and in phonics this week, we learnt about the long vowel sounds of i and u and did a picture sort activity for both. In maths, we learnt about the most common shapes and did simple number bonds under 10 to learnt about the different ways to add values to make a number.
Dear parents,
This week our unit of inquiry focussed on trees and why they are an important resource. The students learnt that trees make oxygen by taking in the carbon dioxide and we breathe the oxygen in and breathe out carbon dioxide. Juni recognised that the relationship between people and trees is a cycle. We read the Dr Seuss book The Lorax. In this story, a character called the Lorax lives in nature with many trees called 'truffala trees' and animals with clean air and water.
Then, a character called the Oncler comes along and starts cutting down the trees to make things to sell. His business starts making more money and he keeps cutting more trees down and building a bigger factory.
The Lorax isn't happy and tells him, "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees." He explains that the animals that live in this place need to trees for clean air and the fruit and a place to live. The pollution from the factory flows into the lake and the fish start dying.
The air gets dirtier and the Lorax starts coughing. But the Oncler doesn't listen and cuts down all the trees.
So then he can't make anymore things to sell and packs up his car and leaves. At the end of the story, the boy is given the last truffala tree seed by the Oncler who is now very old and regrets what he did. He says to the boy, now it is up to you to make this seed grow and bring back the trees. 
In literacy, we practised writing letter u and in phonics this week, we learnt about the long vowel sounds of i and u and did a picture sort activity for both. In maths, we learnt about the most common shapes and did simple number bonds under 10 to learnt about the different ways to add values to make a number.
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