Earth Day Week a Huge Success

Thank you to everyone who made Earth Day week a huge success at Irving. Not only did we get a lot done and educate the kids about Earth Day, we were able to successfully create some awareness of the Irving Schoolyard project. For those of you who couldn’t be there this week, here are some photos of the activities.

Monday we completed the raised bed garden. There are now 20 beds, one for each class at the school. Later this Spring, each class will decide what they want to plant and grow over the summer.

Then is was off to the blacktop to spell out GREEN with the entire student body. Thanks to a lot of planning and hard work, this turned out great. The students had a blast and we got some great photographs out of it.

Tuesday was just as fun with students hanging their recycled bottle art on the fence. The kids have been working for weeks now on making flowers out of plastic bottles so it was great to finally get to see what they made.

At lunch, the 4th grade took over and help organize a recycle drive at lunch time. Students learned to separate out the recyclable goods from their lunch and see just how much they can keep out of landfills every day.

Thanks again to everyone who made all of these activities possible.

Raised Bed Gardens/Recycled Bottle Art/Spelling out GREEN with all the students