We will be kicking of Earth Week on Friday in our Dolphin Reading Pods. All students will hear the book, Wangari's Tree of Peace. This book is about a girl who lived in a small village in Kenya who made a difference that the world could see. Before she goes to school in America, she remembers her childhood in Kenya as a place full of beautiful green trees. When she returns to Kenya, she sees that the trees that once stood were now destroyed for the new buildings that would rise. Wangari would not stand for this to happen and with one seed at a time and the cooperation of the women in her village she starts a movement across Africa to replant all the trees that had once been chopped. Wangari was jailed for protecting the forest, but even then she did not give up and every tree that was destroyed and many more were planted all across Africa by millions of women. In 2004 she won the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the environment and giving people hope.
After reading the book, we will go outside and help plant FOUR new trees on our Weber grounds!
Check out the 411 for information about the rest of the Earth Week activities. We are hopeful that students will be motivated to continue thinking of ways to celebrate Earth Day beyond the actual day!
