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!
Recology Field Trip - February 9th Late Start Morning
The Rieke Green Team and EcoThink club has arranged a field trip to Recology! Here we can see what is happening to the Styrofoam we have collected. This is the place where it is melted down to make material for other uses. We will have a sign-up sheet in the office for those who are interested in participating. We will meet 8:15, February 9th, at Rieke’s parking lot to arrange for car-pooling. This is a late start morning. The tour is at 9:00am. We plan for arrival time back at school to be 10:30am. For those who wish to travel directly the address is:
Recology, 4040 N. Suttle Rd., Portland OR, 97217
Please take some time to review what your child learned and check out some or all of these websites.
The fish game that the 3rd to 5th graders played is adapted from the Nuts Game by Juliean Edney and The Fish Game from Cloud Institute. Play it online at: www.cloudinstitute.org
Learn about growing and purchasing sustainable food
Calculate your ecological footprint here. How many earths would it take if everyone on earth had the same footprint?
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
More information about the sustainability framework - The Natural Step
The story of stuff is a 20-minutes fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our consumption patterns. It exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues.
The secret life of paper - five minute video about paper waste.
Watch the made for TV movie of the story of the lorax
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6650219631867189375
Or play Lorax games
www.seussville.com/games/lorax
Download the EPA’s ‘Follow That Trail’ activity book
www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/k-3.pdf
