Les fêtes dans le mois d'avril

Happy birthday this month's birthday girl! 

Supplies needed :)

 

Hello,

 

We are looking for medium sized yogurt containers for an art project. If you have any at home you were going to recycle please feel free to send them to school with your children instead. Any container of that size will also work. Just a friendly reminder that we cannot have anything that had eggs or peanuts in it before.

 

Thank you again for your help.

Earth Week

In honour of Earth Day we did several activities!

On Tuesday we went outside to clean up the garbage in the school yard. It was very windy but still managed to pick-up a lot of garbage! We talked about the importance of not littering and we felt good about cleaning up our Earth.

On Wednesday we started off our day with a school wide Earth Day assembly. We then looked thought our class garbage can to see what was in there. We found out that some recyclable materials were in there and we discussed helping our friends remember to recycle. We also came up with the following list of ideas to help save our planet. 

1) bring less garbage or a garbage less lunch to school

2) turn off the lights and the water when we aren't using them

3) we will use both sides of a piece of paper and we will start a "good on one side" bin for papers that can be reused

4) we will try to recycle and reuse materials whenever possible

5) many friends stressed the importance of not littering and keeping the Earth clean and healthy

Below are pictures of our friends building with recycled materials.  We learned that it's important not only to reduce your garbage but also to reuse what you can!

On Thursday we looked through our classroom recycle bins to see how we've been doing. 

In the blue box we found some plastic cutlery. We learned that we can bring these home to reuse them after they are cleaned.

Kaden drew a picture of what the Earth looks like when we recycle and when we don't recycle.

On Friday we looked at our lunches and discussed how much garbage was in them. Since reducing all waste is one of our class goals, we discussed the benefits of litterless lunches. 

Today we did some planting as a way to give back to our environment. We planted beans (haricots), lettuce (laitue) and Four O'Clocks (Belle-de-nuit) flowers. We will be monitoring their progress as they grow by drawing what we see and measuring the to see which one grows the fastest. 

We'll let you know how they grow! 

 Jour 1 (day 1)