The children are having a great time learning about the environment and how they can impact the environment in a positive way. We are doing several activities that talk about how we can support future generations and our own and keep our planet clean. The school agers are learning new vocabulary words and new facts about the environment and what is currently happening in our world. 

    One of the activities we did was a garbage cleanup. We really love to play in our space at the back of the school. We have used that space to play on the snow hill and play sports as well as discover sticks, trees, grass, water and mud. We thought it would be really important to pick up the garbage in our back yard  area and start changing the pollution where we are playing first. Another activity we have done for the month of March is a recycling game. We practiced placing cut out pictures of garbage in different pictures of  recycling and garbage containers. This activity taught us something new about recycling and how we can lessen our carbon footprint. We talked about how the waste management companies have delivered new bins to teach us how to organize our garbage better at our homes and how the government changed the garbage pickup system to bi weekly instead of weekly to encourage Kitchener residents to recycle and compost more often. 

     How we teach our children to recycle and compost at home has an impact on the future generations, encouraging your children to put their food in the green bin and paper in the Recycling or compost will help them to understand what to do in the future. Saving lids, boxes, paper tubes and plastic bottles can be great ways to encourage children to make fun crafts this spring and summer. There is a great book you can purchase on Amazon that can teach children new ways to use their imagination to create boxes. This book is titled “ not a box” by Antoinette Portis. 

    We will continue to use our creative minds to make new things with recycled materials and try to be socially conscious of how we throw away items each day. The more we know the better we do everyday.