{"id":2904,"date":"2012-03-22T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2012-03-22T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:17:25","slug":"tree-play-our-arborist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/03\/22\/tree-play-our-arborist\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Play & Our Arborist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something wonderful happened during Free Choice and Writer’s Workshop today.\u00a0 Today the kids wanted to write a play.\u00a0 I suggested writing something about trees and Wyatt came up with a beginning of a story.\u00a0 We have been talking a lot about problem-solution writing, (each story has a problem that needs to be fixed and a solution that fixes it.)\u00a0 Wyatt suggested that we write a play that was set in a forest.\u00a0 The problem is that the animals are littering.\u00a0 He also shared that one animal comes in with a solution, teaching the other characters how to recycle!<\/p>\n

So we went with this idea of the play during Writer’s Workshop.\u00a0 I encouraged the kids to use materials such as watercolors, clay, tree “cookies”, and dry erase boards to help tell parts of their story.\u00a0 We talked about how we can all come up with ideas over the next two days and then start to create a play to perform.\u00a0 It was amazing to see their creativity and the beginning of our play take shape!<\/p>\n

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Max was creating a porcupine as one of the characters in the play.<\/p><\/div>\n

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BreAnna created the Litter Bug who causes the problem in the play.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reid was sculpting other characters for the play.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tyler and Salih created the magical entrance to the forest, the setting for the play.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We had a special visitor this afternoon.\u00a0 Today we had an arborist come in from Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.\u00a0 Nate, our arborist (as the kids referred to him), taught us all about what happens when trees get injured.\u00a0 Our skin heals itself and grows new cells, trees do something different.\u00a0 Instead of growing new cells, trees grow new bark to try to cover up the wound.\u00a0 So years and years later you can look at a tree and see it trying to heal or see the wound in a tree stump!\u00a0 The kids were fascinated by this.\u00a0 It got even better when we went outside to walk around and look at trees outside of our school.\u00a0 We had a few wounded trees to study!<\/p>\n

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Nate was explaining the wounded tree to us.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We also got to talk a little bit more about the rings in the tree "cookies."<\/p><\/div>\n

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