My Language Arts Class’s Recycling Program was featured in an article in the Lancaster LNP newspaper on Tuesday. If you missed it, here’s what it said:
EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Paper trail leads to Brecknock
Brecknock Elementary School third-graders turned recycling advocates are learning to care for the Earth as part of their language arts studies. They have learned what it means to reduce, reuse and recycle, according to a news release.
Students were disappointed to learn this year that paper is no longer recycled at Brecknock because there is no recycling truck to collect it, the release noted. So Brecknock started its own recycling program. Students learned that Mennonite Central Committee recycles paper and other items to raise funds to cover the costs of shipping relief kits worldwide. They saw an opportunity.
In a letter to Principal Kimberly Anderson, students explained their project and requested permission to get started. They wrote a letter to custodian Maureen Hogan, asking her for six recycling bins and boxes in which they could transport paper for recycling. They also crafted an email for teachers, letting them know about the paper recycling efforts.
Students prepared signs for the recycling bins so people would know what could, and could not be, recycled. Then, student groups prepared and practiced a recycling presentation that they gave in each third-grade homeroom.
Students plan to empty recycling bins weekly and deliver the paper to MCC. There is also a recycling center on a cart in third-grade teacher Julie Muhr’s classroom. After students sort out items that aren’t recyclable, Muhr will transport the filled boxes to MCC.
Other classes at Brecknock are interested in the program, which may soon mean more bins throughout the school.
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