Every day is exciting in kindergarten which is why I love it! We had a great day celebrating earth day in our classroom. We have been practicing our "green ways" since our school went green a few months ago. Yes we are excited to say that we have gone from 13 bags of garbage at lunch to 2! Yes 2! The composting has worked perfectly alongside our worm study. We have red worms (composters) and a few earth worms in our worm vue. We enjoyed studying them, performing experiments and making a worm story book. We of course covered the three R's...reducing (which we do!) reusing (which we do a lot in class!)and recycling (which we do!). Our class is very green conscious. We have two recycling bins and have even been saving our snack to compost.
We took a walk and collected garbage along a tree line and in the field. We found a lot of materials that were litter but that also could have been used by our robin in her nest. It was interesting to see that some types of litter could be used as nesting material for birds. When we got back to class we sorted the garbage into true garbage, recyclable materials and nesting material...take a look!
We have been talking a lot about saving our trees and made happy Earth Day cards on reused paper from our recycle bin. They get it...trees help us breathe and ultimately help us live...
We also planted some plants and will learn about plants and their life cycle over the next few weeks. So much to do!
