Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

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Illustration from Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton and Brooke Boynton-Hughes Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton and illustrated by Brooke Boynton-Hughes

Mama Miti Reading, Speaking, and Listening: Focused Read-aloud: Mama Miti

Can’t have a book list about World Hunger without this one! Who can read it and help but understand why the hungry caterpillar is so very hungry? After all, without getting what it needs, how else is it supposed to transform into what it was born to be? Wangari realizes that she needs more support, and begins to travel the world to spread her message. For students who may need additional support with planning: Invite students to share how they know what is the main idea and what are the key details in the text. (MMR, MMAE, MME) SL.K.1a : Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).

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Wangari’s brother teachers her what he learns at school; her parents see that she is smart and a hard worker. For ELLs: (Oral Language: Extending Reasoning) When students turn to talk to their partner about the place they've painted, encourage them to practice using the word because to extend their thinking and describe why they used particular colors or designs. (Example: I used green to paint the treetops because they have leaves.) Ah, Dolly Parton... (happy sigh) A woman who has put millions of books into the hands of millions of children; invested her own money into saving the world from Covid-19, and who has never shied away from speaking about the poverty she and her family suffered as a child. SL.K.1 : Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

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Wangari was an excellent student; she wanted to become a biologist. Her teachers teach her that a woman can do anything they set their minds to After about 15 minutes, invite students to turn to an elbow partner and share their watercolor painting, describing the place. From the title and picture on the cover, what do you think this book will be about?" (Responses will vary, but may include: a woman who plants trees.) Tell students that this is a true story about a woman named Wangari Maathai, who used trees to help her community.The forests are, as well a vital component of the livelihood of rural communities, providing them with firewood, food sources and, as mentioned, water. Much of the labour surrounding water and firewood is done by women in these communites. Therefore it was a logical step for Wangari Maathai to connect these issues. To protect the trees meant protecting the livelihhod of these women. To campaign for womens rights meant to protect their environment.

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Read your sentence strip and decide whether you are a place (opinion) or a reason. Use the icon as a visual cue to help you read. For all that, I did enjoy the book quite a bit. Ideally, all picture books about Maathai would be available to be viewed and read at about the same time because they all offer something a bit different, and readers will get a more complete picture of this woman, the Green Belt Movement, and history if all are read. Transition students to their workspaces and invite them to begin watercoloring using the same routine from Work Time B of Lesson 5: The song came before the book. But the book is glorious. And if you can listen to one whilst reading the other, even better! The Cooking Club Detectives by Ewa Jozefkowicz (to be released on 10 thJune)Beautifully illustrated, the images will make you feel you are right there, with Mama Miti (mother of trees) and the people who sought her advice. You will feel the global impact as well, the risks Wangari took (being jailed several times) to do what was right and you be nourished by her unstoppable spirit. During Work Time A, students listen to the text Mama Miti read aloud. Students may find the language and structure of this text challenging. Depending on the needs of your students, consider stopping to define words in context that will support students' general understanding of the opinion the author makes and the reasons she gives to support her opinion. To mark this World Hunger Day and thanks to the incredible teams at Trussell Trust HQ and Barrington Stoke, I was gifted the opportunity to drop into the Enfield Food Bank, to see first-hand where all our supermarket donations go, and meet both those working to gift the goods, as well as those needing to receive them. the British colonists are no longer the masters of Kenya. The country is free, but the trees are not —they still cannot grow in peace. Kenyans are cutting down trees and selling them as the colonists did. By using the land where the trees used to grow to cultivate the tea, coffee, and tobacco sought by rich countries, they can make more money. (Prévot) Text-to-world connection: A text to world connection I found when reading this book is that something as easy as planting a tree or a plant can provide so much-food/drink/shelter. It is wonderful that the woman in this book, Mama Miti, was able to promote gardening and planting throughout her country.

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You’re never too young to understand money - the root of so many issues in our world, and get to grips with the world it has created for us all. Students engaged in watercolor painting in Lesson 5. In this lesson, the watercoloring involves more skill and attention as students watercolor within the lines of a drawing. No booklist centring on World Hunger Day would be complete without this first book by a man who has inspired so many to become anti-food poverty champions, and managed to make some of our most frostbitten-to-the-heart politicians undertake a policy U-turn or two!

Donna Jo Napoli tells a story inspired by the life of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai & Kadir Nelson's collage illustrations honor the spirit of a land & of the woman who helped saved it. (Goodreads summary) She was assistant minister of the environment of her country and became the first Kenyan woman to receive a Nobel prize of peace. Remove the sentence strips from the Reasons to Plant a Tree anchor chart and the Places People Plant Trees anchor chart and mix them together. In Lessons 2-4, students added ideas to the Reasons to Plant a Tree anchor chart during the focused read-aloud of A Tree Is Nice . In this lesson, they use the anchor chart during the Matching Opinions with Reasons game.