The Plastic Bag Round Up!

Ms. Couch shared some really important news with our school. Our school continues to be the top school in the division in reducing our waste. Because we recycle, reuse, and compost, our school has reduced what goes into the garbage by 50%in the last few years. Here are some ideas we have for ways that we could reduce waste even more:
Krystal thinks we should reuse our sandwich baggies.
Brooke thinks we could use plastic containers.
Tyler and Kyran, say that we should eat vegetables for a snack that we could put into containers!
Krystal suggested we eat fruit as a snack that we can put into containers!
Jack said his mom makes homemade granola bars that she puts into containers!
Christina suggested we use plastic containers for juice too!
Alexander thinks we should use bags made from recycled materials like the Halloween bags from MPI.


We have been rounding up all those plastic bags that collect in the cupboards and closets for the Bag Up Manitoba -- Plastic Bag Roundup Challenge, a program of Take Pride Winnipeg! Inc. The plastic bags that are collected are recycled into free frisbees, bird houses, and benches for our school. These are the bags we have collected so far!

We bundle them up into tens so that we can easily count them!

Keep those bags coming!

Plastic Bag Challenge

Litter is a terrible thing. Litter makes our community look horrible! Littering even hurts nature! In the ocean plastic bags look like jellyfish. Sea animals think that the trash is food and they eat it. Eating plastic is not good for them. Other animals get trapped in plastic bags.

What can we do?

"We could pick up litter at recess and at home too!" said Oliver.

"We should recycle everything that we can!" said Krystal.

"We will participate in the plastic bag challenge! said Room 18. We are going to bring in all our extra plastic bags so that they can be recycled!

Walk to School Day!

Today was walk to school day.

Some of us were dropped off at Rod's Field, some of us walked there with the Day Care, some of us walked or drove there with our families, and some of us joined the walk when the group was near our homes. The teachers walked there to meet us too!

The Safety Patrols were stationed at the corners to help keep us safe.  Our school resource officer, Constable Sue even came to help make sure we were safe.

The most exciting thing was that police cars with their flashing lights stopped all traffic from turning on the roads where we were walking!!!!









               









We met at the back of the school and sang "Oh Canada"!  We thanked the Constable for coming out by clapping!

Walking to school was fun!