The school I work for is really trying to get our students use to doing things that help the environment, and showing them examples of becomeing more "green", so I chose to read "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess to my lower learning intervention group.
The Lorax is a children's story that is rather lengthy, so I split of the reading in thirty minute increments over three days. This is a tale of Suess World people and creatures that make horrible decisions about the environment because they take for granted that it will always look the same. The moral of the story is to use our resources wisely, and keep things as clean as we can. It is not okay to just trash olur environment because at some point the whole world will be polluted and all of our population will die off due to the hazardous wastes it causes. At the end the Lorax makes everyone clean up the world and teaches them better choices for keeping their world tidy so everyone can stay healthy including plants and flowers.
I appreciate this story for bringing an environmental issue down to a level for children to grasp an understanding. The pictures were cartoon like, but they gave avery good description of how things start off great, but over time our bad choices will catch up with us with a vengence.
This week I read 30 minutes Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and stopped for clarifying questions and discussions along the way. It was enjoyable because the knowledge and respect my students gained from the moral.
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