The Green Schools Team is holding a contest to see which classroom produces the least waste in two weeks. They made trophies out of recycled items such as lunchable containers, fruit cups, pudding containers, etc to represent a gold. silver, and bronze trophy.
Students in grades 4 and 5 are learning the elements of paragraph writing (main idea and details) by writing about their experience picking up garbage and by writing about the ways we recycle here at school.
To celebrate reaching 1000 projects we had a school wide Environmental Day. We started off by looking at kids our age that have made a big difference for the environment. Then we presented our banner to the school.
An instruction poster was created to teach printer/photocopier users how to re-use one-sided paper. This keeps reusable paper from the waste stream. Students are learning to ignore the back side of reused paper.
We are going to try and have one day a week dedicated to less to no waste in our lunches! This will be called WASTELESS WEDNESDAYS! We are kindly urging everyone to bring a lunch with reusable containers that produce ZERO waste.
