This month we focused on Waste Out of Place and we conducted a lunchroom trash audit. Our results will be posted soon.
If you have a chance, challenge your family to the ‘home trash audit’ to calculate how much waste do you produce in a day. Do you produce more or less than the national average of 4.6 lbs of garbage a day?
Please take some time to review what your child learned during the trash audit and check out some or all of these websites.
Watch ‘Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout’ together from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEEj1VKq-t8
Download the EPA’s ‘Trash and Climate Change: Planet Protectors Discover the Hidden Reasons to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle’ Activity Book
www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/k00-001.pdf
Go on a virtual field trip to a landfill:
http://www.rumpke.com/Landfill/Virtual_Tour.asp
March Late Start Morning Field Trip
We had a great time exploring Tryon Creek State Park with Ranger Karen and Ranger Christal. The kids learned about the importance of fallen trees, searched for 'nursery' logs, and delighted in finding the animals that lived under them. We even were able to see a Great Horned Owl nest and deer tracks.
STUDENT ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS NEEDED!!!!
To make our Rieke “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” music video for Earth Day (set to Jack Johnson’s song ‘3Rs’), we need photos or drawings of:
- taking the busPhotos of numbers (on signs, cars, buildings, etc):
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36
Please drop off your art in Ms. Reddekopp’s office mail box or email the photos to jamie.repasky@gmail.com
Sustainability - What is a Wants vs Needs
This month we are focusing on wants vs. needs. Your child learned what we “need” to survive and sustain a happy, healthy life and how that differs from what we want to have in the way of possessions.
Please take some time to review what your child learned and check out some or all of these websites.
Check out the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child and download the game to help facilitate a discussion in your family about wants and needs
PBS site has lots of games and resources to explore the idea of wants vs. needs and how to save money.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/money/managing/article2.html
Explore consumerism with your older kids. How do advertisers target your kids? This website has some interesting lesson plans and ideas to bring up at the dinner table
http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/lessonplans/consumerism/lesson_4.html
Before you consume (or go shopping), check out these sites
Responsible Shopper: www.responsibleshopper.org
PBS: Affluenza: www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza
Media Awareness Network: www.media-awareness.ca
Black Rhinoceros: www.blackrhinoceros.org
New Road Map Foundation: www.ecofuture.org/pk/pkar9506.html
Styrofoam Drive and Recology Tour
Here are our pictures from the Rieke, Hayhurst, and Bridlemile Styrofoam Drive on Feb 5 and 6 and Rieke's tour of the Recology Processing Plant.
We collected 60 cubic yards of styrofoam that will be recycled instead of headed to the landfill. We collected enough styrofoam to fill one of our modular classrooms to the ceiling - that's 660 pounds of styrofoam!
