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Earth Week

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Earth Week

Every year our schools organise the “Earth Week” . This week is devoted to activities regarding the environment and the Earth Day (some of them are still in progress during the school year):

• Our school collaborates with the local council to collect caps from plastic bottles. These plastic caps, seemingly insignificant items, can—albeit not through an easy process—be transformed into something incredibly useful: a wheelchair. In other words, something we would literally throw away as trash can be turned into a wheelchair, improving the quality of life for a person with any form of mobility impairment. Knowing this, our students are motivated to collect all these bottle caps to help other people.

Our motto for this small campaign is “No cap should be discarded or wasted”.

• Students Create drawings. We challenge each student to create drawings with messages about caring for the environment that can be hung up around the school to remind schoolmates to be alert and careful. It is a great way for students to practise sharing persuasive messages creatively.

• Clean-up Day: On a day without classes, we gather in the village where our school is located and work together to clean public places where children often spend their time or play. We, the teachers, participate as well.

• We make posters with slogans about protecting the enviroment with recyclable materials (Old magazines, newspapers, plastic caps, scrap paper, glass) and display them around the school. The students explain to us what they created.

• We Encourage Eco-Friendly Habits at School

✔ Promote a paperless classroom by using more digital resources.

✔ Encourage students to use reusable water bottles
✔ Set up our own recycling bins in the classroom and teach students how to sort waste properly.

• Our younger students write Earth Day Acrostic Poems. This is the perfect activity for introducing acrostic poems to our children and making them think about Earth. On the sheet, ‘Earth Day’ is written vertically, with a line next to each letter, so our children can easily understand that their task is to write a line beginning with each letter to make a lovely poem about Earth.

• We make Earth Day Seed Bombs. These cute seeds bombs are a great hands-on activity for children to explore Earth Day. At the end of the activity, children will have blue and green themed-Earth gifts to give to friends and family, or to plant in their own garden to add to any green spaces and help the environment. This activity is easy to resource. The students need only green and blue paper, some seeds, water, and a blender to create these wonderful seed bombs . This is a great craft activity to try outdoors to encourage children to explore the outdoors.

• We also watch videos about the pollution and protection othe environment, (such as https://youtu.be/nQvS-79VL2Q?si=MpyKWvjpWhezX_me , https://youtu.be/u4bu1lVM0B4?feature=shared , https://youtu.be/X2YgM1Zw4_E?feature=shared) and assign the students to write their thoughts and present them to their classmates and teachers.