Earth Week Celebrations

Our student environmental cabinet, led by teacher sponsor Mrs. Cavan, helped the whole school recognize Earth Week and "Love Our Earth"!

Students planted seeds in the Courtyards...



...cleaned up trash around school grounds during part of their recess time...

  

...dressed like plants...

...and distributed special gifts to faculty and staff!

 

At CHES we Love Our Earth!

 

Love Our Earth Week 2015

CHES 

Love Our Earth Week!

 

April 20-24, 2015

Monday, April 20th: 

Love our Earth Week Poster Contest for each grade level.  One winner per grade level will have a pizza lunch with Mrs. Hines and Ms. Carle at a future date.  Poster due:  Wednesday, April 22 by 9:00am to Room 43.  (Teachers will be provided with a copy for each student)

Everything Grows with Love~ each student in every class will plant seeds to care for at school or at home.  During recess on P.E. day, you are invited to the courtyard to plant seeds with your class.  All supplies will be out there for your students with directions.  Please enjoy the courtyard and the natural educational backdrop.  Please be respectful of the plants and landscape. 

Tuesday, April 21^st:  Everyone wear green and take a step towards going green!

Wednesday, April 22^nd: Earth Day

Earth Day Posters for poster contest due!

 Environmental Committee leaders will read “earth awareness” books to K-1 classes. 

Special Gift for Faculty and Staff from the Environmental Cabinet!

Thursday, April 23^rd:  School-wide clean up!  For the first 10 minutes of recess, please take your class to an outdoor area around our school and collect trash.  Let’s SYNERGIZE and take pride in our school! (A trash bag will be in your mailbox)

Friday, April 24^th: Dress like a Plant!!!  Let’s see who can use their creativity and come up with a unique outfit!!!  Poster Contest winners announced!

This week has been planned, organized and carried out with love by the Environmental Cabinet of the Student Leadership Council.

The Full Terracycle

The student Environmental Cabinet got to see the full circle results of their recycling efforts. 

The students and PTA Green Committee work all year to collect chip bags and juice pouches in the cafeteria and send them to Terracycle for recycling and upcycling (making them into new products).


With the cash prize money won last fall in the Connect the Dots for Green Schools challenge, they purchased finished product items made from the juice pouches and chip bags. 

Each cabinet member chose an item to keep and take back to their classes to help promote the recycling project.  The remaining items were donated to the school to use for teacher gifts or to sell in the school store.

Terracycle uses the recyclabes to make school supplies like pencil pouches and folders, and also all kinds of unique gifts and home products.

These items can be purchased at www.terracycle.com.  Buying the finished product items will help ensure that they will keep offering their wonderful special recycling programs!