Earth Day is Every Day

This week our focus has shifted to environmental awareness in honour of Earth Day.  We had the opportunity to participate in activities involving the entire school, such as an assembly by ERCA about water conservation and planting a tree in our school yard. We also explored the topic of environmental awareness in our very own classroom.  We made instruments out of recyclable materials, practiced appropriate sorting of items in the red/blue bin and read non-fiction texts about environmentally friendly practices.  

Exploring the items in our blue box at school.

Exploring items in our garbage can. We talked about the importance of reducing the items in our garage bin and the use of landfill sites.

Take a look at our "earth" necklaces. We made these by recycling juice can lids!

We participated in a tree planting ceremony as part of the Essex Communities in Bloom program. 

We will be continuing to explore the topic of caring for our earth over the next few days.  We are proud of our youngest learners as they make an effort to protect our earth!