Earthkeeper Jobs and Pledge

We have taken on new jobs this week at school! These jobs are our 'Earthkeeper Jobs' and we are working very hard to help make the world a better place. We have gardeners, composters, reducers, recyclers, green cleaners, and pledge keepers. We will be switching jobs every two days until vacation so the students have the opportunity to work at each job.

We have also taken an Earthkeeper Pledge to keep the Earth clean. This pledge follows the form of the Pledge of Allegiance and we read it each and every morning during Morning Meeting. Yesterday, the students engaged in an active discussion about what the pledge meant and how excited they were to keep this pledge promise!

Stay Tuned! We are making paper tomorrow during Hands-on-Nature and we are making birdfeeders out of recycled materials during the afternoon!

Ask your student how they are helping to reduce and reuse this week!

Our First Day!

Today we kicked off our unit on change! We talked about ways that we can change the world and be an Earthkeeper! The students had so many amazing ideas! I shared with them that Florida doesn't recycle all the products that they could, and the students were outraged! HAHA! They thought of this wonderful idea of teaching students in Florida about recycling! We wrote a letter to students at my aunt's school in Florida giving explaining what recycling is and giving examples of what can be recycled. They also want to create a play and posters to send to those students to teach them about recycling! So I may be requesting costumes of any kind within the next few days to prepare for our play!

We also collected out snack scraps, containers, and wrappers and sorted them into compost, recyclable, and trash piles. The students realized just how much we throw away! Some even took their containers home with them to reuse another time!

During our discussion, the students shared that they were going to be Earthkeepers by collecting trash outside in order to help the planet. I offered students a treat if they come in with either a parent note or telling me that they collected trash at home.

Ask your student what they learned about recycling and composting today!

Houses for Froggy!

Today we did our last skill builder before my solo weeks start! the students were assigned the groups that they will be working in for the next few weeks! They did an amazing job! Their assignment was to build a waterproof house for our friend Froggy to live in! The students came up with different abilities that their friends and group members were good at. They worked well communicating their ideas and solving their problems! Great Work!