What a Load of Rubbish
Blurb
The Clutterbuck family drop litter, upsetting the Fedup family and the other villagers. One day the make a wish which goes horribly wrong, but only for the Clutterbucks. (For ages 4 - 8)
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Themes from the Book
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Teaching Ideas
- Read the story and learn it by rote – act it out and perform it to the school. Box each section of so the pupils can learn the structure of the story. Meet the Clutterbucks – drop their litter out of the car window – Buy a drink on the way to the cinema and drop that – eat sweets at the cinema and leave the wrappers – etc.
- List the places where the family dropped litter. What other situations could there be where he could drop litter, how would the other characters react.
- What would be their three wishes if they met a tree spirit. You could then do a lesson on – If I had a wish, I’d wish for everyone to be kind to each other. If I had a wish, I’d wish that I could laugh every day. And so on. This creates a sentence framework for them to practice.
- Write the spoken words in speech bubbles.
- Look at page 7 – what would the fish say?
- Find words in the book to help them read and expand their vocabulary –
- Pupils use a selection of verbs to create their own short story. Or play charades with them to build up their vocabulary (this can be 10 minute slots for fun.) In the writing world, it is better to use powerful verbs than adverbs. This shows what the character is feeling/doing rather than telling the reader.
- Find the root words and all the words in the family – call/calls/calling/called – munch/munches/munched/munching etc
- Give them some of the words to sort out into groups. It doesn’t matter how they group them as long as they can explain why they’ve done it. It could be as simple as they can’t spell them/read them or irregular verbs and regular verbs.
- Pupils tick the words they can say/spell and then learn two each day until they’ve ticked at least half of them.
- Find pictures to match the verbs – play pairs.
- Get the pupils to look out of the car window or on a walking route to feedback where they find rubbish in the area. Do a walking survey where pupils count how much rubbish they find. If you live near a beach, join a beach clean-up and see what rubbish is found and where has it come from.
- Look at different materials to sort in Science – paper/plastics/wood/metal – sort and find out how long it takes each one to degrade.
- What would happen if we didn’t use bins and just threw our rubbish on the ground?
- Collect some rubbish and create some art work.
- Create a video advert to encourage young and old not to drop litter. We are all responsible for our planet. We share it with billions of other creatures (this includes animals, insects and plants). Look at some previous campaigns such as ‘Keep Britain Tidy’. Ex-USSR states such as Belarus are incredibly clean: the streets, the roads and the countryside are immaculate. This stems from the communist philosophy that we are a community and collectively responsible.
- Poetry - https://www.write4fun.net/view-entry/4992, https://www.slideshare.net/ravimo15/litter-poem and https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rubbish-7/. There are many more poems but these are just a few ideas.
- Look at other books with strong environmental themes (see The Day the Turtles Came Home by Leysa Henderson) and other books where the characters change from not caring to caring.
- What can be made with our rubbish? http://mentalfloss.com/article/71088/15-surprising-things-are-made-recycled-materials
- Make something by repurposing rubbish e.g. bee home from plastic bottle and canes - https://friendsoftheearth.uk/bees/make-a-bee-house