It was wonderful to see all the Lumberjacks on Friday. There was a lot of plaid in our classrooms! The Lumberjacks wrote conclusions to their essays, took a light and sound test, and munched on popcorn while watching The Lorax. We discussed how The Lorax is similar to what happened during the lumbering era. The jacks cut down all the trees for money, but made the mistake of not planting more trees. They cleared vast amounts of trees and never looked back, just looked forward to the next plot of land they could cut. Ask your child what job he/she would want at a lumber camp.
Yesterday we read nonfiction articles about the conditions that the lumberjacks lived in at camp. Students were shocked that they only made $25 a month, didn't get paid until the end of the season, worked six days a week, and started their day at dawn. Then, students wrote a letter from a lumberjack's perspective to their family back home explaining and complaining about life at camp by using the articles to support their complaints. The students had such a great time with this. Knowing that lumberjacks were fairly uneducated, students enjoyed misspelling words, using the word "ain't" and writing kind of sloppy. Many students even crinkled up their papers, making them look old.
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