Today was the last day of our Seussical adventure for 2011 and ended with the 1971 Dr Seuss book, the Lorax. If you have not read it before I encourage you to do so.
I love The Lorax, with its truffula trees, Onceler, and thneeds. It is about protecting the environment, our natural resources and the animals which depend on them. It is also an attack on big business and capitalism....something the kids don't really get but hopefully we do.
I was very proud of all of the kids and their concern for the animals who could not speak for themselves.
We pretended to have the last seeds and planted our own in clay.
They excitedly created their own truffula trees which were brightly colored and they determined were NOT good for making "thneeds".
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