Earth Day clean up!

To celebrate Earth Day we decided on doing a neighborhood clean up. We started talking about our plans a couple of days ago so that we had an idea of what was going to happen and what we needed to get the job done. 

We decided that we needed rubber gloves and plastic bags to collect the garbage with. One of the children suggested he bring in his claw that could be used for picking up garbage. 

All set to start our clean up!

Once we got outside all the children got right to work finding all kinds of garbage items.

While we were cleaning up we talked about what was safe to pick up, and what wasn't. We also discussed things that could be left on the ground because they were either part of nature or items that could decompose back into the earth.

The children were so excited to do their part for the environment, that at times they were knocking each other over to get the next piece of trash on the ground. 

At one point the children noticed some perfectly round rocks on the ground and got in to an interesting conversation about what they could be.

To further their conversation and interest we collected up as many rocks as we could carry and brought them back to centre to explore. 

We cleaned up both sides of Hampton St. which took us 1 hour to finish, not one of us minded, it was a great walk and very rewarding job. We received many thank you's from people walking and driving by, that our smiles got bigger and bigger each time. 

One of the neighbors came out to thank us with popcorn! We were so grateful for the gift that we all yelled, 'thank you'  to her for making our clean up even more rewarding!

So proud of a job well done! 

To finish our job right we carried all of our bags to the back dumpster, to ensure it get deposed of properly 👍

After lunch we all ate some of the yummy popcorn! 

Happy Earth Day!!

~Mrs.Thwaites