Bamboo plantations are harvested annually so jobs are permanent in regions that need economic security. While bamboo is fighting deforestation and improving soils in India, Ethiopia, and other regions, it also provides income for local peoples. But it’s not just the tropics and subtropics that benefit from bamboo. Cropland and manufacturing facilities in the United States promise to bring income to local communities in the Southeast.
Bamboo is a grass that can grow a meter per day. Fast growth allows some species of bamboo to reach maturity in three years
Bamboo is a native species in the tropics and subtropics, regions with some of the world’s poorest communities. If bamboo is responsibly managed, it uses degraded land and doesn’t compete with food crops
A sustainable process also considers local communities and the impact on indigenous peoples’ food, health, economy, and quality of life.
Responsible Production
When we think of bamboo, pandas often come to mind, but don’t forget about primates like mountain gorillas, bale monkeys, and greater bamboo lemurs that use bamboo as a source of nutrition and habitat. INBAR believes that sustainably managing and utilizing bamboo as a crop will allow local communities to meet their needs without putting more pressures on virgin primate habitats. INBAR and other organizations are working with peoples around the world to develop management systems that protect biodiversity without compromising productivity that’s important to local economies.
As with any eco-friendly claims, there are many variables to consider. Bamboo is an exceptional renewable resource. Responsible plantation and mill management can allow bamboo to be a sustainable alternative to wood pulp.
Bamboo paper is attracting the attention of companies and individuals looking for eco-friendly printing and sustainability. Despite the digital revolution, the demand for paper is growing globally and surpassed 472 million tons in 2016. Of all the industrial wood traded globally, 40% is used by the pulp and paper industry. Understandably, consumers have concerns about wood supply and sustainability, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions. At BambooInk, we reduce waste, recycle, use post-consumer recycled papers, and look for high-quality alternatives, including tree-free papers like bamboo.
When discussing if bamboo is eco-friendly, we must consider the land required to grow bamboo. If trees are cut to make way for cropland, deforestation increases. Deforestation can spark environmental decline as soils dry, erode, and become barren. In addition, there’s concern that forests cleared for cultivation of a single crop would destroy habitat and limit biodiversity. Responsible agricultural practices address these concerns.
Time4learning offers printable kindergarten worksheets as well as worksheet through the eighth grade. There are some free printable worksheets from Time4Learning, on this page as an example of what they offer.
LessonPlanet is also an incredible resource which has 350,000+ resources to help teach different subject areas according to different ages. A time saving resource when looking for something specific to help you. They have a 10 free trial period. I narrowed down a list of free printable writing paper and handwriting worksheets and resources that may be of interest.
Looking for free printable writing paper for you and your children to use in your homeschool? The lined paper comes in four different formats.
Dotted Lined: a line divided into 2 (tall, short letters) with space between each new line of writing
Further writing resources
Check out these free homeschool printables on my site - graphic organizers, free printable writing paper, History printable worksheets and more.
Lined Writing Paper: different spaced lines for different ages
Handwriting printables with drawing box - available soon. This lined paper is ideal for writing narrations and adding a drawing on to the page.
Each week of Beginning Handwriting includes three printable lessons in one download that explores foundational skills important for young learners. The class covers topics such as pencil grip, prewriting skills, letter formation, and tips and tricks for remembering which letter is which! Numerous additional resources and printables are included.
I say: Now, let’s look at the events we have here. Which event came in the beginning of the story? What was the FIRST event of the story. You can take volunteers or pull a name stick and have a student come up to the pocket chart to identify the first event of the story. If they do not know, I choose another student. When they pick the correct one, I help them to place it right next to the title in the pocket chart.
I say: This is the name of the story The Lonely Prince. Do you remember what we call the name of the story? (title) The title always goes first so that the reader knows what story we are talking about.
I have this story The Lonely Prince on CD. The reader is animated and there are sound effects in the background, so students are very engaged! It is a fun way to do a third read of the text. We listen to the story all the way through one more time without stopping.
I do this to make sure students got the big idea of the read. This is a check for understanding and guided practice in citing evidence from the text.
Prepare the Learner
I enlarge the events of the story so that the whole class can do this sequencing activity together. I like to do it in a pocket chart, but a chalk board ledge works well too. Before we begin, I review each of the event stick illustrations out of order. This is my way of making sure the kids know what each picture signifies. I usually place the first square at this point in the year.
We then revisit the two focus questions: Why is friendship important? and What makes a good friend? I ask for evidence from the text to support their answers.
Retelling is a key kindergarten skill that lays the foundation for summarizing in the upper elementary and later grades. I use picture support to give my second language learners and concrete reference that also prompts language. It also gives me the opportunity to clarify and reteach, if necessary, before the students independently sequence events tomorrow.
I follow that same pattern until all of the events are placed in order after the title.
In addition to identifying the scope of your written narrative, it helps to determine which direction you will be going – forward in time, backward in time, or a combined approach. For biographies on one person, it is usually common to begin with the ancestor’s birth, continue throughout his life, and end at his death. However, it may be more interesting to begin with an important event later in his life, then return to the beginning of his life later. For large narratives on extensive families, we find it is often best to begin at the most recent ancestor as an adult and work backwards chronologically to their parents, grandparents, and so on.
Sometimes as genealogists we get so caught up in collecting all the details about our ancestors that we forget the other important side of family history – sharing it with family members! If you have a closet overflowing with old documents or a database full of facts, and you decide you’d like to share what you’ve learned with others, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. As a primer, review our article, 11 Do’s and Don’ts of Writing Family Biographies.
Writing a family biography is one of our favorite projects to work on here at Legacy Tree Genealogists. We love searching out the details of our clients’ ancestors’ lives, and we also love bringing those details to life by telling the story.
Stories bring families together, but they can’t if they are not told and shared. Although online trees are bringing more and more genealogy-minded family members together, it can be hard to find and grasp the story in the tree – especially for the rest of the family members who tend to be less interested in history. An organized, cohesive, and well-written family narrative bridges that gap, bringing the stories of our past to future generations.
Narrow Your Scope
Second, gather and organize the materials, documents, and details that you want to include in a way that will be easy to refer to as you write. It can be helpful to have digital images of all of the documents, either attached to each relevant person in an online tree or database, or organized in chronological order by person into folders on your hard drive. This makes it easy to incorporate photos or snippets from documents into your written narrative. Visual aids often make the stories you’re telling come alive, not only for you, but especially for the non-genealogist family members with which you hope to share your work. (If you have received a report from us recently, you may have noticed that we are incorporating more and more images in the body of our reports. These serve to illustrate the narrative and also provide natural breaks in the text allowing the brain some time to absorb what is being read.)
Writing a compelling and interesting family history biography is one of the finest examples of experienced genealogists. Review our outline that will help share the stories of your ancestors.
It can also be confusing to find the best way to share the information you’ve spent so much time gathering. If you’ve ever caught yourself telling family history stories to a non-genealogist and suddenly realized they had been staring at a spot over your shoulder for the past five minutes, you’ll have already learned that it can be difficult to present it in such a way that others can absorb and appreciate.
The great thing about this craft is that kids can make leaves in a leaf shape while strengthening the small muscles of the hands. Younger kids can tear across the strip of paper to make simple squares while building motor skills at an age appropriate level.
Colorful leaves make this tree a project that can be hung up on walls and will make kids proud as they admire their work.
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In order to create a curved shape, the non-dominant (non-tearing) hand will need to pinch the paper while building pinch grip strength.
Or, create the torn paper tree on the front of a card for a Fall kid-made greeting card.
Kids will love to create the leaves on this Fall tree craft as they tear colorful paper.