Celebrating Earth Day at Island Prep!
Earth Day has arrived! One of Island Prep’s core values is being eco-conscious, so this is one day of the year that we love to celebrate with our students.
We encourage our students to be conservation-minded in a variety of ways at school every day. Each child has a personal hand towel with which to dry their hands instead of single-use paper towels. They learn to only run the water when they are actively using it. Each child brings a reusable bottle and we have water filtration systems for drinking water at each campus. Parents are encouraged to use reusable containers in their child’s lunchbox and each class takes recycling very seriously. The communications from the school and teachers are sent electronically and the billing is paperless.
While we take our conservation efforts seriously, it’s essential to get children involved in fun ways that spark their creativity. In celebration of this year’s Earth Day, the students have been issued a challenge. Each class has been tasked with being ‘waste free’ for the day. That means no trash, no recycling, no wrappers, nothing! The class with the least (or no!) waste for the day will be declared the reigning ‘Waste Free Class’!
Speaking of no-waste, one of our teachers is in the process of weaving a rug using only plastic grocery bags. It’s amazing, and this project has opened our students’ eyes to the possibilities of recycling and has prompted them to come up with all kinds of ways to reuse and recycle, plastic bags or otherwise.
What conservation efforts do you make around your house? We’re always looking for ways to expand in this area, so we would love to hear your ideas! Leave us a comment or get social with us on Facebook or Instagram!
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