Today is Earth Day! We learned a lot about how we can keep the earth’s environment clean.
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We painted coffee filters like earth for Earth Day 2013. |
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We read books on how to keep our environment CLEAN and how to reduce trash and pollution. |
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And we read about Michael Recycle, and the 3Rs (Reduce, reuse, recycle). |
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Then we wrote things we can do to help. |
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We can do lots to keep the earth clean. |
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We’ve been working on planting veggies and herbs and flowers in pots. |
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We also learned how to conserve water. We can turn off the faucet when we brush our teeth! |
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We can walk instead of drive in the car…… |
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We can pick up litter at the park or school grounds…. |
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We can recycle cans, bottles, and old clothes and toys….. |
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Or we can reuse things like paper bags and boxes or make them into something new! |
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Like these plant holders we decorated and made out of tin cans and scrap paper. |
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We planted vegetables of all kinds, and herbs and sunflowers too…… |
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Everybody chose something different….. |
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And we’ll be able to see the roots growing from our Root Viewer….. |
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We are watching potato roots growing like crazy too!
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Then we played a sorting game to decide what type of recycling each item needs to go with; paper, plastic, glass or metal…… Also, here is a Word Scramble on Plants I found at ABC Teach. The kids loved it! |
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Then we made Earth Day bracelets. I got the “going green” beads from oriental trading. And HERE are some foam peel and stick shapes for Earth Day. You could make bookmarks on foam 2 x 4 pieces. We had a great Earth Day 2013! |
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