Lunch Waste Audit

On Tuesday Feb.8th the Green Team 3 parents and 20 students from grades 1-5 conducted Caleb's first lunch waste audit. Students sorted lunch waste into 5 categories: 1) Milk Cartons- emptied 2) Compostables 3) Non-compostable food waste 4) Recyables 5) Non-recyables. Volume and weight were recorded and will be presented to school in the next few weeks. Students who helped were awarded a free mini-pizza from Papa Murphys Pizza. The 5th grade students will be creating a poster/lay-out of all the data recorded. Here are some pictures from the audit:

Compost Update

We currently have worms bins in 6 classrooms now!
Thanks to two parents we have 2 outdoor composting bins as well.
Our 7th outdoor worm bin is located next to our compost bins and is thriving- thanks to Mrs.Mallicoat's Special Educaton class.

Our hope is to begin 3 more worm bins for 4th, 5th and middle school classrooms.

Recycled Ornament & Holiday Craft Sale- Success!

Just wanted to say a BIG thanksto all who purchased your childs/students holiday recycled ornament and crafts! Special Thanks to Kinder parents: Anna Rose, Jill Boourneman, Nan Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Talbert, Ann Gregory, Amy McGoldrick, Kelli Codero, Jenny Matchell, Kristy Coroan, Ginger Stimac, and Angela Glasgow for helping in the classrooms with the projects!!!! Such a GREAT success in helping our school be more green! Here's to a GREEN NEW YEAR!

Classroom Worm Compost Bins

We have started Worm Compost Bins in 5 Caleb classrooms!

Students were taught by Green Docents a worm composting lesson which included reasons for worm composting (reduce school lunch waste), what worms can/can't eat, started worm bin (added bedding, food scraps, and worms, and begun worm journals.
Students will fill a 16 oz container with lunch food scraps (fruit/veggie scraps) every monday, wednesday, and friday. Thanks to teachers/classrooms who now have worm bins!
~Mr.Myers and Mrs.Ching's 2nd grade
~Mrs. Kitowski's and Mrs.Pascoe/Aguirre's 1st grade
~Mrs. Lee's 3rd grade

An outdoor worm bin was also started and will be a learning bin for Kindergarten and other classrooms!

Caleb Wins Solar Educational Grant!

A $850 grant from the City of Sacramento (via Solar America) has been given to Caleb Greenwood to assist with our Green Team Goals! A portion of these funds will help Caleb students learn how to use solar ovens and other energy saving related projects!

For more info. visit:
http://solaramericacommunities.energy.gov/cities/sacramento/
and
http://www.cityofsacramento.org/SolarGrant/index.html

Recycled Holiday Project Dec.'10

Students K-8 will be creating Recycled Holiday Crafts/Ornaments for Caleb's Holiday B-Fast/Flap Jack Run(on Saturday Dec.11th, 2011 )! Crafts can be purchased for $3 proceeds benefiting Caleb's Compost and Recycling Projects1

Kindergarten: Paper Maiche Ornaments
1st & 2nd: Bottle Cap Tree Ornaments
3rd-5th grade: Junk Mail Bracelets

Caleb's Educational Garden Project & Green Team Update

These are some of the things that the Green Team and the Garden Docents have been working on the last month:
~ Gathering support from parents, teachers, students, and P.T.S.O. for implementing steps for teaching garden lessons in classrooms.
~ Organized and cleaned garden shed for materials and tools for ed. garden lessons.
~ Purchased materials for ed. garden projects
~ Planted winter gardens for 2nd grade classes (Mr.Myers and Mrs. Ching): lettuce, carrots, spinach, kale, chard, broccoli, bok choi, peas, and collards. 3rd grade Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Stallworth's class, as well as kindergarten classes Mrs. Wong and Mrs. Richardson (radishes, peas, lettuce, carrots).
~ Weeded and dug out dead and/or diseased plants in other garden plots.
~ Taught Soil Compsition Lesson to 2nd grade classes: Mr. Myers and Mrs. Ching,
as well as 3rd grade classes: Mrs. Stallworth & Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Wong's Kindergarten class as well.
~ Harvested vegetables for garden snack vegetable soup for Mr. Myers and Mrs. Cherry's clasrrom-students LOVED it!