Thursday 9 February 2012

Things We Are Doing at St. Rita

These are some of the things we are doing at St.Rita:

The GOOS Project

The G.O.O.S stands for Good On One Side. These bins will be in every classroom to use as scrap paper or graphic organizers. We are doing this because we would like to reduce paper that still has a blank side on it in our recycle bins. We hope that the students will use these bins.

We write blurbs for the newsletter.

We do skits at the assembly.

We had Sweater Day and are having Reusable Water Bottle Day.
We make bin liners for the classroom compost bins.

We will participate in Earth Hour and hopefully have one once a week.

If anyone's reading this, share some ideas on how you help the environment at your school.

27 comments:

  1. Great idea! Our school will be joining you in the near future to discuss ideas about how we can minimize our impact on the environment by discussing things we can do in school on a daily basis. We look forward to collaborating with your team.
    The School #18 Green Team
    Indiana Avenue School #18
    256 Indiana Avenue
    Iselin, NJ 08830
    http://www.woodbridge.k12.nj.us/elementary_18.html

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    1. That would be great! We would love to team up, share ideas and see how we can help our environment!

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  2. One thing I do to help the environment in school is use a metal water bottle at lunch time or when I am at home and use contaners so I can save the Earth 6.

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  3. One thing I do to help the Earth in my school is turn off the lights when we are not useing them.It is important because it saves energy.16

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  4. One thing my school and me do to help the environment is we have a recycling bins. First we use both sides of a paper and if we dont need the paper we recycle it or take it home. Its inportent because if you dont use both sides of a paper your just wasting trees and trees give us oxygen.1

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  5. One thing i do to help the Earth in school is recycle scraps of paper.It is important becuase it saves trees that help give us oxegen.8#.

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  6. One thing I do to help the Earth in my school is write on both sides of my paper because the less you use paper the more it saves trees. 11

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  7. One thing I do to help the environment is if I am done with one side of a paper I do not throw it away. I use the other side of the paper.It is important because it saves the trees.20

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  8. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is turn of the sink in the bathroom so I don't waste water. 15

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  9. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is by recycling papers and not over sharpen my pencil. That's just wasting trees.22

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  10. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is not to sharpen a lot because I don't want to waste trees 21.

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  11. One thing I do to help the Earth is use both sides of my paper so I could save the trees so everybody can breath. I dont oversharpen my pencil or pick the point eithr. 4

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  12. One thing I do to help the Earth is to recycle paper. It is important because thats how the Earth stays clean. 18

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  13. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is to use both sides of the paper I'm using because if I keep using one side of the paper I would be wasting trees. That's why using both sides of the paper is important.23

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  14. One thing I can do to help the Earth in school is write on both sides of your notebook paper.It is important because papers are made out of trees and you do not want to wast trees so thats why you use both sides of the paper.14

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  15. One thing we do to help the Earth in school is to not oversharpen pencils because it will waste alot of trees and animal won't have a habitat and they will be in danger.But most important is that we get oxegon from trees.24

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  16. One thing I do to save the Earth in school is turn all the lights off before we leave the room.It is important becuase it saves energy.8#

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  17. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is... turning the lights when we go to our special to help save energy from13#

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  18. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is I always reuse instead of throwing it away .Like if you do not want a toy instead of throwing it away you can reuse it by giving it to somone .It is inportant because you'r not making alot of trash for the environment .3#

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  19. One way to help the Earth is to reduce the amount of trash we create.We use both sides of the paper to use less paper.We buy only the things you need and choose products wisely.10

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  20. One thing I do to help the Earth is recycle paper and Reuse paper and I remind myself Earth Dayis everyday. we save trees every day and we have a solar panel to watch how much energy we save 25.

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  21. One thing I do to help the Earth in school is close the lights when nobody is using it.It is important to close the lights because it saves energy!17

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  22. One thing I do to help the Earth is to use both sides of paper.It is important because I don't want to waste paper.2

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  23. Thanks for all of the responses and great ideas. Our squad will be getting back to you to share some more ideas.

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  24. I can help the environment by turning ofo the water when I am not using it to help save the water.19

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  25. One thing I do to help the earth in school is turn off the lights when we are not using them.It saves energy.5

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  26. I can help the environment by being in the Eco Squad.

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