Ideas+at+Work

Earth Week ideas:  *daily morning announcement (1. Did you know that? 2. Tip of the day 3. Question of the day --Heather, Eleonore, Maddie, Bree, Nathan, Chad )  Homeroom teacher puts class answer in on a slip of paper and sends to office with morning information or emails it by noon. Winner is announced at end of day. *Mrs. Shrader will send teachers video and activity links to tie in with instruction or use on afternoons of OAA week. *Lorax members speak to first grade classrooms about Earth Week and/or read a story. They will find out be st time of day to leave their own classrooms and get back to Mrs. E Friday!!!!!  Monday DYK-Americans use 50 million tons of paper every year, or about 580 pounds for each person? TOD-You can recycle ALL kinds of paper-cereal boxes, note paper, bags, newspaper, and so on, even empty mac and cheese boxes. Find out where to recycle in your neighborhood QOD-If you stacked up all the paper an average American uses in a year, the pile would be as tall as... A)a car B)an elephant's eye C)a 2-story house    <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Ideas in progress: 11-10--11 1. Make posters for each grade level to advertise/encourage proper recycling of the following: *paper and plastic(Heather & Maddie) *juice pouches(Bree & Matthew) *cookie wrappers(Ariana & Eleonore) *candy wrappers(Nathan & Chad) What can we recycle? all paper, cardboard, construction paper, newspapers, magazines, paper lunch bags, bulletin board paper 11-10-11 Homework: How will you "kick-off" your advertising campaign?