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| Check out how much garbage we have already and this is before we walked the river! |
Last week, we did a Community Walk and Garbage Clean-Up. This related to our work in class around Earth Day and Waste in Our World for Grade 4 Science. Having just visited the landfill the day before, we were extra excited to do something positive for the earth.
Students were put into three groups with 4 garbage pickers to share. They all had gloves, as well, and a garbage bag to share with their group. After a discussion about safety while picking up garbage (especially along the river pathway), we were off!
Students were very engaged and cooperative as we made our way along Spiller Road to the river pathway. There was some garbage we left behind because it was potentially unsafe or too heavy for us to carry. The amount we collected was staggering...easily 20 pounds altogether.
We also took a little break in the shade along the river to discuss the different seeds we saw on the walk and talk about seed dispersal for our Plants unit in Science. We enjoyed seeing the osprey back on its nest.
Thanks so much to our parent volunteers who joined!
