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Earth Day Activities II

1-2-3 Come Celebrate Earth Day With Me!

My Y5's enjoyed learning how to care for our planet more than on just Earth Day.  I took an entire week to teach them how even little kids could make a difference by simply turning the water off while they brushed their teeth, as well as not being a litter bug. 

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, We were always amazed at how much small trash we cleaned up from our playground and fenced in areas, as we went outdoors for "Operation Clean Up!"

We had wonderful discussions of other things we could do and what they as a family were already doing.

A creative way to have students write about how they reduce, reuse or recycle, helping to take care of, and love our earth, is by making the "I Love The Earth" personal writing prompt "craftivity."

Students cut and colored their planet earth and glued it to a heart, where they wrote what they did to help out.

I traced my students' hands and they drew a self portrait to make this a real cute keepsake, as well as an awesome hallway display.

Click on the link to view/download We Love The Earth craftivity.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, You can use the Happy Earth Day poster as a center for your spring bulletin board, and then scatter the portraits around it. 

The cans on the poster have letters that say: We Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.  Make a copy of your students' school pictures and have them glue it to the lid.

Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day poster.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, "My Family Recycles!" Is a quick and easy writing prompt bookmark. Students color their recycling tub and symbol and jot down all of the things their family does to recycle.

Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day bookmark.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, Finally, an interesting way to have students examine the importance of recycling, and see what they can do, is to take a look at what their family throws out.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, This packet includes a letter to parents, recording data analysis sheet + graphing extensions and a writing prompt craftivity, to pull it all together.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, Click on the link to view/download What's In Your Garbage? Earth Day activities.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN away.

I hope you and yours enjoy being keen and "going green!"

"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it." -Danny Kaye

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Earth Day Activities

1-2-3 Come Reduce, Reuse and Recycle With Me!

April 22nd is fast approaching.  Do you need a little something to plug in for Earth Day?

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Making a class book is a fun way to get your kiddo's excited about writing. Each child completes their page; you collect and collate them.

Students complete the thought for each of the 3 sentences. How do they reduce, reuse andrecyle to help our earth?

Remind them about capitalization, spacing and punctuation, so that you cover those standards as well.

When you share the completed book with your class, have each child read their own page.

Add some pizzazz by having students color the illustrations and then glue their own school photo over either the girl or boy's face.  Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day Class Book.

the 3 r's, reduce reuse recycle activities, earth day activities, writing prompts for april, earth day writing prompts, class books, recycling booklet, CCSS for Earth Day, common core for earth day, punctuation activities, capitalization activities, spacing, class books, class made books, earth day crafts, clock games, clock centers, clock activities, clock lessons, telling time activities, telling time lessons, time to the hour, earth day games, Another way you can have students write about reducing, reusing and recycling, is to have them make this simple, but striking Earth Day dangler.

The recycling symbols and hearts are glued together to form 3 sides; one for each R word. Students write how they reduce on one heart, how they reuse on another and finally how they recycle on the 3rd one.

Hang from a yarn loop so the writing prompt "craftivity" twirls and dangles from the ceiling.

Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day Writing Prompt Dangler.

the 3 r's, reduce reuse recycle activities, earth day activities, writing prompts for april, earth day writing prompts, class books, recycling booklet, CCSS for Earth Day, common core for earth day, punctuation activities, capitalization activities, spacing, class books, class made books, earth day crafts, clock games, clock centers, clock activities, clock lessons, telling time activities, telling time lessons, time to the hour, earth day games, Finally, I made an Earth Day game that helps review clock numbers, simple addition, and things that can be recycled.

Students roll first one, and then two dice, to get a time-to-the-hour number that they write on their clock. 

They then glue the matching numbered item that it is "time to reduce, reuse or recycle."

the 3 r's, reduce reuse recycle activities, earth day activities, writing prompts for april, earth day writing prompts, class books, recycling booklet, CCSS for Earth Day, common core for earth day, punctuation activities, capitalization activities, spacing, class books, class made books, earth day crafts, clock games, clock centers, clock activities, clock lessons, telling time activities, telling time lessons, time to the hour, earth day games, Click on the link to view/download Earth Day: It's Time To Recycle Clock Game.

For more Earth Day "craftivities" scroll down to the next article.  Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything you think may be helpful to others.

"It is not the IQ, but the I Will, that is most impoortant in education." -Unknown

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