{"id":71178,"date":"2020-04-23T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71178"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:12:32","slug":"how-to-be-a-friend-to-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/connecting-reading-and-writing\/days-of-significance\/how-to-be-a-friend-to-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a Friend to the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71179\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/EarthFriendly.png\" alt=\"Green graphic saying &quot;Earth Friendly.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/EarthFriendly.png 392w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/EarthFriendly-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/EarthFriendly-165x216.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Connecting Reading and Writing: Days of Significance<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a simple procedure outlining the steps to take to be a good friend to the Earth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think about your friends at school and in your neighbourhood.<br \/>\nWhat does it mean to be a good friend?<\/p>\n<p>List all the characteristics of a good friend that you can think of.<br \/>\n(What do friends do? How do they act?)<\/p>\n<p>Write a simple procedure that describes the steps someone should take to be a good friend to the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some sentence starters that might help you get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTo be a good friend of the Earth, the first thing you can do is&#8230;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA friend of the Earth would make sure to\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSomeone who cares for the Earth always\/never\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFriends always \u2026 so friends of the Earth will \u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFirst, _____. Then _____. Next _____. Finally, _____.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Create illustrations to go along with your writing.<\/p>\n<p>Share your writing with others (e.g. ask a parent or caregiver to help you email, tweet, read it over the phone to someone important to you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write a simple procedure outlining the steps to take to be a good friend to the Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72660,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71178\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}