earth day and all its related activities makes the PTA environmental concerns committee that i chair very busy in april! for the second year, we had a recycling education table at the montgomery township earth day fair. it's always great to hear people say "wow -- i didn't know that you had to take the caps off the water bottles before recycling them!" among other educational "lightbulbs".... one lady said to me, "i visited your table last year and had to come back to refresh myself and find out if there is anything new." LOVE IT!
this year, we decided to turn earth day into "earth week" at chloe's school. for those of you who don't know, chloe's school is K thru 2 only with over 1000 students. every project that includes the students is a major time commitment. we decided to hand out trinkets, little reminders, each day of earth week to help the children remember to take care of the earth. monday was stickers, tuesday was seed packets, wednesday was wear blue&green day and the students received a paper packet with helpful hints on how to "go green", picture search, word search, coloring sheets, etc., thursday was an earth eraser and friday was a globe keychain. the kids LOVED it!
as i did last year, i also hired a speaker to talk to the kids about taking care of the earth -- recycling, litter, conservation, etc. due to the size of our population, the speaker had to do 3 identical assemblies in one day. he was fantastic -- the kids were so engaged and entertained --and we hope to have him back again next year.
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