Think Green - A Healthy Planet 🌎

Recycle!  Reduce!  Renew!  Reuse!

These four words formed the message presented to our Horace Mann students in a fun assembly last Friday called Think Green - A Healthy Planet.  The performer used a few simple props, an adorable ant puppet, some magic tricks, and plenty of student participation to get his message across.

He encouraged kids to recycle, reminding them that it can include glass, plastic and paper.  Using light bulbs and running water as examples, he encouraged them to reduce their own consumption of precious natural resources. By renewing areas, we beautify them and make them more appealing (such as cleaning up trash in our neighborhoods).  Finally, we can creatively reuse materials that would otherwise be thrown away.  

Some people have given "reuse" a catchy name:  upcycling.  This means taking things that might seem spent and finding a creative use for them.  Paper, containers, broken things, you name it.  Keep this in mind, as you may be reading in a future blog post about low-tech makerspace ideas for Horace Mann and other LKWD elementary schools...

We want to thank PTA for sponsoring this fun, interesting and socially-aware assembly!  We often talk about kindness at our school, and hope to see increased kindness toward Mother Earth...especially with Earth Day approaching on Monday, April 22nd.