[Readiscover07_rap] Rap Point 2 from Year 3 at Penrith PS

Mon Aug 20 13:18:18 EST 2007

Hello again rappers!

Today we looked at Rachel Tonkins' non fiction book called "Leaf litter".

At our school, we have areas of garden that are covered in bark chips, or mulch, which does the same job as leaf litter in the forest of the book. Our bark chips:
* stop the dirt from flying into the playground and into our eyes
* stop the soil from turning into mud when it rains (like today)
* hold small plants into the ground
* look neat and good
* prevent weeds, grass and onion weed from growing and spreading in the garden.

In our school's leaf litter, we found:
1. a piece of bark with a white coccoon or egg sac inside it. A creature had glued leaves and bark together with bits of web. Another creature had spun a second coccoon or egg sac on top.
2. a dirty piece of a plastic foam drinking cup, perhaps from last year's peer support parties. It was hard to see between the leaf litter and bark chips.
3. a kind of native bush fruit that had grown out of the middle of a blossom. When we pressed it, black dust came out the tiny hole in the centre.
4. an old seed pod. The seeds were gone and the pod had turned black.
5. different types of leaves; some with autumn colours, some with speckles and some which had started to rot.

>From Year 3 rappers at Penrith PS

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