Recycle, reuse, and conserve! All new vocabulary words that we've learned this week!! The kids are really excited about learning how to "take care of the Earth"!

I have to admit that the teachers found out something new today too. Dilworth is a much cleaner neighborhood than we thought when we headed out for a Litter Pick-Up Walk! We had BIG plans to rid the streets of all kinds of trash! It was a fairly unproductive trip.....the eagle eye children did find some tiny pieces of paper, and there was the occasional rare find of a bottle top, but overall, the sidewalks to and from the park are trash-free!

The highlight of the trip was teaching the kiddos about the buddy system. Everyone had a partner for the trash walk. Each set of children was given a plastic bag for collecting. Learning to work together, take turns, and stay with your partner was probably more valuable than any actual trash that we might have picked up!

Evan brought a book from home called Protect The Earth that we used as our literature for today. It was a great story that had all of our vocabulary words from the week. The kids were all able to talk about what each word meant and give examples about how we could help the earth. It was very exciting to see how much they remember from our discussions earlier in the week. And lunch time was a whole new experience....no more throwing all the trash away.....the kiddos insisted that we start recycling some of that trash!! To protect the Earth, of course.....wow.....they take this learning thing VERY seriously!!