Year 4 performed a play called 'Ronnies Revelations in the Rainforest' which explained the importance of protecting the rainforests.

Rainforest Play

The children in Year 4 worked very hard learning about the Rainforests and what can be done to prevent them from becoming extinct.

They decided to put on a play 'Ronnie's Revelations in the Rainforest' for for the rest of the school to reveal what they had learned about the rainforests.

Our Eco Week

We worked hard during Eco Week learning about the rainforests and preparing a play called Ronnie's Revelations in the rainforests! We watched a video on the Rainforest to show us where the rainforests are and we found that they are mostly near the Equator. We learned about the different layers in the forest and the animals and plants that lived there.

We also looked at many websites on the Rainforests to see which people lived there and why Rainforests are important to us. We found that some plants and herbs are used for our medicines. A good website 'mongabaykids.com' told us about why the rainforests have been destroyed and what we could do to save them. Our play was a way of telling others everything that we had learned about the rainforests.

We learned that rainforests are important to us because they have animals and plants which are not found anywhere else in the world.

Rubber, paper and wood comes from the trees in the rain forest. Rainforests help our weather to be warm enough for us and keeps the water cycle going so we don't have droughts. People like the Pygmies and Huli tribes live in the rainforest. There are many endangered species in the rainforests such as the Lima which can only be found in Madagascar. There are very few animals and trees left in the rain forests and there is a danger of them becoming extinct. Rain forests used to cover 14% and now only cover 6%. Millions of people would not get medicines which come from plants and herbs in the rain forests.

How to save the Rain Forests

These are the things we can do to save the rainforests:
- We shouldn't waste paper because it comes from trees, we can put them in the blue bin.
- We shouldn't burn or chop down the trees in the rainforest because they take the bad air away and give off oxygen, we would also spoil the greenhouse effect and change our climate.
- Animals need trees to have some where to live.
- Tell others about how important the rainforests are.
- Support companies which help to look after the rainforests.
- Buy Fair Trade foods like chocolates, tea and biscuits.
- Use Recycled paper.
- Plant trees where rainforests have been cleared.
- Write to governments to buy parts of rainforests so they won't be destroyed.

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