Earth Week Events

Hi Everyone,
The DEEP has a listing for  Earth Week 2013 Events in CT.

If you know of any other events you can submit a posting here

MS Earth Week 2013 Plans

For Earth Week 2013 MMS students will be working on a few things and then sharing them in some way.

1/Creating posters with recyclables to feature in the cafeteria (Gang Green club)

2/Creating posters of current containers and utensils in the cafeteria showcasing their recyclable content, ability to be compostable, ability to be 

recycled. (Debbie Bossie has done an incredible job sourcing for our cafeterias) 

3/Gail Hannigan in Healthy living is having her students work on posters re: healthy food choices which will be posted in the cafeteria.

4/ hang new "Got Milk" posters in the cafeteria and monitor milk purchases as a result. (Gang Green club)

5/performing an energy audit on the school (Gang Green club)

6/The 7th grade is doing a L.I. Sound study and Marc is planning to encourage that they share their findings re: water conservancy with the MMS students.

Earth Week 2013 Plans

Hi All,
Beth Harmon at Royle School has shared with us their wonderful plans for Earth Week.
See below. It seems that most of you are excited to follow a similar schedule. Please share with everyone your exact plans, so that we can all benefit from all of your great ideas!

“Acts of G-R-E-E-N”

Earth Week

    April 22-26, 2013

G-R-E-E-N

Monday:         G is for Go Garden!

-Earth Day! Garden Committee responsible for this day.

Tuesday:        R is for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

-Green Committee responsible for this day which includes DEG 1^st Grade pre/recycling presentation.

Wednesday:   E is for Energize!

-Green Committee responsible for this day of simple, active, energizing acts like walking/biking/riding bus to school, picking up trash, bringing reusable water bottles to refill in hydration stations, etc.

Thursday:      E is for Eat Healthy!

-Health Ed Committee responsible for this day.

Friday:           N is for No Waste!

-Green Committee responsible for encouraging students to wear green on this final day of Earth Week, incorporating DEG 4^th grade water conservation presentation, arranging for Darien Nature Center to present Save LI Sound/sea turtles to 4^th and 5^th graders (K thru 3^rd grades have “Planet Earth” presentation.

Note:

-The week before: E-Blast goes out to faculty, parents.

-Each day: Stand-alone-mail blasts go out re. next day.

-Each morning: PA announcements made by student