Earth Day

Today we celebrated Earth Day by learning of big and small ways that we can help take care of and protect our planet.  We read several stories and talked about what it means to reduce, reuse and recycle.  The boys and girls sorted pictures of different recyclables into the appropriate category, graphed thier results and then answered some questions about thier graph.  We listened to a song, "What a Wonderful World," and illustrated pictures for a book about the song.  In the afternoon, the kids were given plastic gloves and grocery bags and we went around Bemis and picked up garbage that we found.  We filled up almost 25 bags with paper, snack wrappers, cardboard and plastic water bottles.  Some of the girls from our class made up a Do Not Litter cheer.  We will spend the next few days talking about ways we can make the earth a cleaner and better place to live.