Earth Week Celebration

By: ACS2011

On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012. Ascension Catholic School will celebrate Earth Week form April 23-27. Earth Week 2012 is a time to promote awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment, sustainable living and earth awareness. Earth Week is also known as National Green Week 2012. Environmentals all over the world will recycle and conserve energy this Earth Week and we are happy to do our part.

                                                                   GREEN WEEK

                                                                 Monday, April 23

G is for Growing-Raise awareness by wearing GREEN accessories-hats, socks, hair ribbons and jewelry.

                                                                Tuesday, April 24

R is for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle-Waste free lunch challenge and recycle styrofoam egg cartons.

                                                                 Wednesday, April 25

E is for Educate-Teachers will talk about ways to save the environment.

                                                                 Thursday, April 26

E is for Energy-Lights out. Teachers will teach the entire day or as much as possible with the lights out.

                                                                  Friday, April 27

N is for Notes-Students will note on leaves what they have learned or what they will do to go GREEN.

                               

Our Earth Week celebration was a lot of fun. Many students and teachers wore green accessories to raise awareness on the importance of working together to make a difference. Throughout the week environmentally friendly activities and lessons were designed to inspire awareness of our beautiful planet. On Tuesday we focused on reduce, reuse, recycle. Our volunteer lunch staff helped by serving lunch on reusable plates in place on styrofoam plates. Students who bring lunch were encouraged to pack a waste free lunch. The lunch trash went from ten 55 gallon bags down to two and a half bags. We have started collecting water bottles this week and saved over six 55 gallon bags from going into the trash. Students also brought in egg cartons to be brought back to a local store for recycling. We collected 134 egg cartons. Everyone enjoyed our lights out day. It was a great way to show students how to save energy and money by turning off lights and appliances when not in use. Friday morning students made notes on leaves about what they learned this week or what they plan to do to go green. The leaves were hung on a tree in our cafeteria to share with everyone.

 

     

                                                              PreK3 bulletin board

 

                                                                      Ways to go green

 

                                                                  Waste free lunch

                                                              Our green Cafeteria

                                                                    Our Tree

                                                                  Library display