2018-19 and 2019-2020 We started a share table in our lunchroom in 2018 and it continues to be a huge success. This will reduce the food waste and let students who are still hungry an opportunity to fill their belly.

Learn: Students learn to not waste food and to instead to share food. This keeps it from it out of landfills and in bellies.

Do: Students place unwanted food items that are shareable on the share table for others to enjoy.

Teach: Students on CTV shared how the share table works and it purpose. Now students can explain and share with others what it is and how it works.

Conserve: Recycling and Waste Reduction

We recycle daily and have a bin in every classroom and office. There is a rotation of students who pick up the recycling. We also recycle cardboard and light bulbs. We collect ink cartridges to kept them out of a landfill.

Waste Reduction- We also have maker space carts for teacher to check out. They are filled with what others consider junk and students then turn these things into creative works of art and engineering projects.

Recycling-We recycle daily and have a bin in every classroom and office. There is a rotation of students who pick up the recycling. We also recycle cardboard and light bulbs. We collect ink cartridges to kept them out of a landfill.

Learn: Students learned what to recycle and what not to put in the bin through CTV at the start of the year.

Teach: Students who pick up make sure to teach other classes and teachers what does and does not belong in the bin. If they find something that doesn't belong then they make sure to let the class know. We also shared on CTV the do's and don'ts of recycling at the beginning or the year.

Plants in the classroom-Every classroom and office has a plant to help clean the air. At the beginning of the year a survey is sent to see who needs a plant. The A+ Girls then learn about and fix a plant to deliver to those classes or offices. They re-use water bottles and wrap an information label explaining what kind of plant and why it is helpful to the classroom.

Learn: Students were taught why it was important to have plants in the classroom.

Teach:They teacher the classes what kind of plant, how to take care of it, and how it helps improve air quality.

We are also partners with Bonnie Plants-Every third grader received a Giant Cabbage Plant from Bonnie Plants. Students will watch them grow! They have a chance to win a savings bond if they grow the largest.

We are partners with Bonnie Plants-Every third grader received a Giant Cabbage Plant from Bonnie Plants. Students will watch them grow!

We also have Vermi-Bins in our school. This is a bin where worms live and we feed them some of our compostable foods and watch them multiply and the food turn into compost that we use for vermi tea to fertilize plants and we use the compost in soil when planting plants. We have an outside compost bin as well. Our first grade students collect scraps from lunch to put in the compost bin.

Learn: Students learn all about how the worms help our plants grow. The interesting life of a worm.

Teach: Some third grade students got to share the worms with the PreK class and tell them all about them. They loved getting to hold a worm.