Sunday, April 28, 2013

Be sure to check out our KidBlogs to see our Litterbugs!  We had fun creating them and writing about them! 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Earth Day facts:
Over one billion people from 180 countries around the world celebrate Earth Day every year.

If everyone in the United States recycled their newspapers, the lives of 41,000 trees would be spared. One single tree can detoxify the air of up to 60 pounds of pollutants.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA,) without recycling, a family of four throws away about 2,000 pounds of garbage each year.

If you chopped down a 15-year-old tree and used it to make paper grocery bags, you'd wind up with about 700. That's roughly the number of bags your local supermarket goes through in an hour.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in the United States, about 75 percent of the garbage dumped in the regular trash could be recycled.

It takes nearly 500,000 trees to produce the weekly Sunday newspaper.
If you walked a mile along any highway in the United States, you'd encounter an average of 1,457 pieces of litter.

Celebrating Earth Day!

We celebrated Earth Day by creating LitterBugs from items that may end up in the trash can and into a landfill.  Students brought various items from home to use for their projects. We hope this project shows you how you can create some pretty cool stuff with just a little junk and some creativity!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
Our class has fallen in love with the "Bad Kitty" series of books by Nick Bruel!  These books are hilarious and so fun to read!  Here is a link to his website where you can learn more about this author and his amazing books.  There are even some fun games to play.
Meet Nick Bruel