Getting ready to build our own landfills
Another day at Friday CONNECTIONS! playing with rocks, dirt, worms and more!
Because sustainability starts with ourselves, the morning started with a review about our eating choices the day before and how we could possibly choose differently in the future. Our discussion reinforced what we learned from Dr William Sears, MD book, “Eating Healthy, Feel Great.”
As we moved away from our own bodies and eating habits, we revisited our discussion about what sustainability means and the 4 Rs
- Reuse
- Reduce
- Recycle
- Rethink!
Photos and discussion around marine and land pollution transitioned our class into talking about landfills. Talking is all good, but action speaks louder than words. So we took the students outside and picked up rocks and bits of trash, gathered our snack scraps and let the worms out…yep, those hearty “compost” worms.
Groups of students put it all together to let the worms do their thing for the next 2 weeks. The kids (and me) can’t wait to see what will happen when we come back on our next furlough Friday…November 20th!
Thank you very much for offerring this special program to our future leaders! You all have invested much time into this carefully thoughtout program and I see the results in my child. Although she is only 5-years-young, she is forever sharing, enlighting, and teaching us! Mahalo nui loa!
PS-Have you considered starting a Saturday class or perhaps classes after a school day?