Earth Day Every Day!

This week at school, many of our activities focused on the concept of taking care of our environment.  It was another busy week with lots of hands on learning opportunities.

Here we are outside on Earth Day with Mr. Arundine.  Mr. Arundine took us on a tour of the pond area located on our school grounds.  The entire school community worked together on  Monday to clean-up the pond area so that we can use this as a learning space.  Our kindergarten friends helped by continuing to work on our "kindergarden" by adding more mulch. 

Inside our classroom we sorted items into the red and blue bins.  Mrs. Ducharme even went through the garbage can on Friday to see how we are doing at putting things in the correct place.  We are doing pretty well at remembering what items go in the recycle boxes and which items go in the garbage.  Your child might be reminding you of proper recycling at home...(just a warning!!)

Thanks to everyone who brought in a piece of material for our classroom quilt.  It was a great activity enjoyed by many of our students!  The children were really excited to see how something new could be made out of something old!  Thanks to Mrs. Allan for bringing in her sewing machine and taking the time to work on this project with our friends.  

We ended our week by making birdfeeders using birdseed, bagels and lard.  We went out to the pond area in a small group to hang the birdfeeders on trees.  We plan to check back next week to see if the birdfeeders look any different.