Below is the text our teachers will be using during Morning Meeting during our 12 Days of Peace. In your newsletters this month will be more programs we’ll be doing this month to teach our scholars about generosity, including Angel Fish Families and Book on Every Bed.
Recycling is an easy way for us to help our planet. Recycling is when you take something like glass, metal, plastic, paper, or cardboard, and process it so it can be used again. We like to practice Reduce, Reuse, Recycle:
Reduce means only use things that you need. After you wash your hands, you only need one paper towel to dry them, not five! You can bring reusable bags to the grocery store instead of taking the plastic bags. At lunch, you only need one napkin to wipe your face, not a handful!
Reuse means to take something that you don’t need any more and make it into something you can use. We sometimes use old jars to hold our crayons or pencils, or an old box to store treasures. We sometimes use scrap paper in our craft projects. We can donate our old clothes and toys to charity.
We talked about recycling earlier—we have recycle bins here at school, and you might have recycling bins at home. Not everything can be recycled, but lots of things can! Recycling helps our planet by saving trees and energy and keeping dangerous chemicals and trash out of our environment.
Our country uses four million plastic bottles every day. If we didn’t recycle them, we’d be swimming in trash. In fact, a lot of plastic that people throw away ends up in the ocean, where fish and whales eat it and can get hurt or even die. If everyone recycled and picked up the trash they found, our world would be a cleaner, safer place!