Shop with me: Dollar Tree

 Shop with me: Dollar Tree Edition

Using these for our recycling unit.

balloon animal notebook

Scented Markers

Hop nack next week, for the video and my next shopping trip!

Earth Day and Recycle aka: Lorax

So in honor of the Lorax movie coming out {way excited!!!!!!!}

We talked all about the 3 R's, composting and preserving the environment.
We sang these songs:

 With the K-1 children we broke it down in two days. We began with:

We did directed drawing for those items.  I drew the jar (well we called it a vase-I thought that it would look too much like our can lol)   on day two we did reduce and compost!  The older kids just broke their page in quarters.

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I took this photo from on line, click on the source above to see my search.  I can't very well take a photo while we are using the app!  lol  :}  Anyways, now on to what we did.  We went around the room- we did this 4 times!  Each time they would say:

I would {recycle/reduce/reuse/compost} ____________________________. For their friends.  They laughed and laughed at me when I introduced it to them!

Earth Day and Recycle

On Earth day I shared my Target Bag with my students.  Then we sorted things to recycle:

 And things that we would put in the compost pile:

I got the sort from http://centerinabag.com/shop/

Later we played this game. Okay so we were supposed to play with contractions, but that wasn't in my lesson plans.  I wrote reduce, reuse, recycle on the spaces. We have two markers, a girl game marker and a boy marker. The children roll a die and move that many spaces. If they land on "Happy Earth Day" space, they say "Happy Earth Day" on the other spots they have to tell us something that they can reduce, reuse or recycle. 

Later, I was thinking about other things that I could show them that were also recycled. What can you think of that can be shown that is made from recycled materials?