Read Across America celebrated in the style of Dr. Seuss and the Lorax

In honor of Read Across America, the Media Center sponsored a poetry contest. The children were asked to write a poem in the same style as The Lorax. It would be about the environment. The winner received a bookmark with seeds for the student to plant in his/hers own backyard.

A special thanks to Mrs. Creasey for creating the fun bulletin board.

Here are three poems.

Stop cutting down trees

I'm going to plea

If you keep cutting down trees

I'm going to scream

So please stop cutting down trees

And I will give you cheese.

Trees are paper and paper

is trees. People hate

homework so stop if you

please. It's just wasting

paper on stuff we

don't need so don't

make homework and we will

be pleased

One day the Once-ler

came to the Lorax

town and started to

cut the trees down, down

down they fell to the

ground. This hurt the

Lorax's feelings. This

problem couldn't be

solved I poke up but

it didn't work. He just

kept cutting down.

Unless, I thought if all

the animals in the forest

yelled, "we are the

animals we speak for

the trees they are

our home so don't

cut them please!

The Once-ler thought

about this for a long

long time he decided

if this were my

home I wouldn't/want

it cut down so he

stopped and thought

I shouldn't hurt this town

and he didn't.

Do you know the meaning of BIOEXTRAGEOQUEST?

5th graders were tasked with creating new words from various parts of words posted on a list. They were to combine the words and write a definition. The theme was the environment in honor of Earth Day. Check out these clever words and their meanings:

(Kate S.) GEORUPT -- breaking of Earth's crust

(Chris H.) BIO-FLEX -- flexing muscles to make people strong

(Elena M.) POSTHERM -- after heat

(Emma) BIOEXTRAGEOQUEST -- The act of searching for life beyond Earth

Ask Your Child About

... the new computer centers and Leap Frog Books used by Kindergarten and 2nd Graders

... researching using an encyclopedia by the 2nd graders

... a power point presentation written and designed by the 3rd graders

(Parents can come to the media center and ask to see the power point presentations stored on the library's computers)