Welcome to Central's Green Team!  

Mark your calendars - we've got a SOLAR-BRATION!!!

REUSE for Pets! 

Get ready to be GREEN..... it's EARTH WEEK!

The Green Team hopes you had an AMAZING Earth Week! We had so much fun celebrating being GREEN with you! Here are some pictures from the week! 

Central's Semi-Annual Recycled Sculpture Contest! 

All the foxes that were submitted for our Recycled Sculpture Contest were so incredibly creative! It was hard to pick who was the winner in each grade! We hope you had so much fun making your foxes. 

The 2023 winners are :

 Evangeline S - Kindergarten

Lucy P & Maren K (a tie!) - First Grade

Audrey A - Second Grade

Sicily T- 3rd Grade. 

Unfortunately there were no submissions in 4th grade. Each winner won a prize from the Green Team, and each participant received a packet of wildflower seeds. 

And the Golden Pop Tab goes to.....

April 2023

Kindergarten: Mrs. Meneese's class with .27 ounces

First Grade: Mrs. Ortmann's class with 8.78 ounces. 

Second Grade: Mrs. Engstrom's class with 7 pounds and 13.92 ounces 

Third Grade: Mrs. Shea's class with 10 pounds and 5.56 ounces - our Golden Pop Tab winners!

Fourth Grade: Mrs. Collins' class with 2.74 ounces

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March 2023: 

Kindergarten: Mrs. Meneese's class with 1.29 ounces

First Grade: Mrs. Dana's class with 8.15 ounces. 

Second Grade: Mrs. Engstrom's class with 8.23 ounces 

Third Grade: Mrs. Mirabelli's class with 1 pound and 3 ounces - our Golden Pop Tab winners!

Fourth Grade: Mrs. Collins' class with 2.75 ounces

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January 2023: 

Kindergarten: Mrs. Meneese's class with 1.29 ounces

First Grade: Miss Rose's class with 6.73 ounces. 

Second Grade: Mrs. Engstrom's class with 1 pound and 14.26 ounces 

Third Grade: Mrs. Mirabelli's class with 3 pounds and .5 ounces

Fourth Grade: Mr. Elman's class with 5 pounds and 1.21 ounces - our Golden Pop Tab winners! 

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December 2022: 

Kindergarten: Mrs. Meneese's class with 6.55 ounces

First Grade: Mrs. Ortmann's class with 14.66 ounces. 

Second Grade: Mrs. Engstrom's class with 7.78 ounces 

Third Grade: Mrs. Mirabelli's class with 1.27 ounces

Fourth Grade: Mr. Elman's class with1 pound and 7.22 ounces - our Golden Pop Tab winners! 

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November 2022: 

Kindergarten: Mrs. Meneese's class with half an ounce

First Grade: Mrs. Ortmann's class with 6.68 ounces. 

Second Grade: Mrs. Ciulla's class with 3 pounds and 5.5 ounces - our Golden Pop Tab winners! 

Third Grade: Mrs. Shea's class with 3.43 ounces

Fourth Grade: Mr. Elman's class with 3 pounds and half an ounce 

Holiday Lights Drive 2022 

proudly sponsored by the Green Team! 

The Green Team is proud to announce our annual Holiday Lights Drive! 

Bring your old string lights (working or not) to Central and drop them off in the bin in the front lobby. The Green Team will take them from there, and bring them to a donation area that the village of Wilmette is sponsoring. Along with SWANCC, the village will be properly recycling these string lights to keep them out of our landfills. 


Coat Drive 2022 

proudly sponsored by the Green Team! 

The Green Team is proud to announce that our coat drive was a success! We collected  85 coats this month! All coats were donated to Connections for the Homeless in Evanston to benefit our local community. 

Thanks for helping us reuse something that can help someone else! 


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October 2022: 

Kindergarten: Mrs. Vegter's class with 1 ounce

First Grade: Miss Rose's class with 1 pound, .81 ounces. 

Second Grade: Mrs. Engstrom's class with 4.75 ounces

Third Grade: Ms. Samborn's class with 6.32 ounces

Fourth Grade: Mrs. Dietrich's class with 1 pound, and 3.82 ounces - our Golden Pop Tab winners! 

Start Collecting Pop Tabs!!!!

Pop Tab collections are starting up again this year! Collect pop tabs from cans at home and bring them to your classroom. Then, once a month the Green Team will collect pop tabs from all the classrooms. Pop tabs will be weighed, recycled and donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities. The class with the most pop tabs each month will win the Golden Pop Tab Award!      Check out the video below for more information. The first pop tab collection date will be October 27th this year! 

Environmental Week 2022

Thanks for joining the Green Team in celebrating Environmental Awareness Week! Central Foxes helped to conserve energy by turning off the lights, walk to school and took part in our first spirit day of the year! 

Check out the pictures below for just some of the fun! 

Team 1: Green Eggs & Ham

Team 2: Stay Green, Stay Clean