Earth Day

Earth Day is almost here. Will you be doing something with your family to celebrate this day?

BELOW are two fantastic read-aloud stories about taking care of our environment: the place where we live. Both stories are read by the authors themselves! Also below are some questions to think about during and after the stories. You can try responding to one or or all of them. I’d love to hear what you think! You can share your responses with me in the comments or email them to me: allyson.yee@burnabyschools.ca

For the Earth Book:

  • Do you already do some of the things Todd Parr suggests we do to help the Earth? 
  • What are some things that you haven’t tried before that you would like to try?
  • Do you have some ideas that you think Todd should have included in his story?

For One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay & the Recycling Women of Gambia:

  • Isatou Ceesay found a creative (and no cost) way to deal with the plastic bag problem in her village. . . can you think of another low/no cost way of solving this problem?
  • When you make something old into something new you can call it ‘upcycling’ – can you think of a creative way to upcycle materials in your house that would otherwise be thrown out?
  • We have garbage in the roads and forests here in Burnaby – what are some creative ways we could solve our problem here?

Story for primary students (kindergarten to grade 3):

The Earth Book by Todd Parr, read by Todd Parr!

 

Story for intermediate students (grade 4 to grade 7):

One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay & the Recycling Women of Gambia by Miranda Paul, read by Miranda Paul.

Watch Isatou Ceesay make recycled bags into purses: