I have one gift to add to my list of favorite gifts from students. She's a mop top or whatever my students are calling them... and now they are popping up all over my classroom right now!
I love having an Earth Day birthday celebration since it's my birthday (any excuse for a party, really), but we got all excited about our reading lesson today and almost ran out of time!
So I threw in my Earth Day go-to... The Lorax. You just can't have an Earth Day celebration without this guy! The story fit PERFECTLY with our economics and ecosystem units that we are working on right now, so it was a great high interest lesson.
After our story, we did some reflecting with this prompt page and my kiddos were working really hard on providing evidence for their opinions and responses.
This lesson ended up hitting every topic we are working on right now, so it was a huge teacher WIN.
If you're looking to add some fun activities for your Earth Day celebration next year, I rounded up a few of my favorites (per usual RTL fashion). I'm not a huge printable person when it comes to Earth Day activities because I feel like it kind of defeats the purpose...right? Head on over to Pinterest to find Earth related resources, websites, and activities that are fun for the classroom (Project WET and Project WILD are really neat if you ever get a chance to complete a workshop with them!).
I hope you have a wonderful Earth Day... I'm hoping to gift myself a small lemon tree this year, but who knows.
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