Earth Week

Weber Earth Week 2012
Weber School is celebrating Earth Week April 13th-April 20th. There will be
special activities at school as well as fun ideas for celebrating Earth Week at
home. Be sure to mark these important dates on your calendar.
Check out the activities for each day of the week:
Friday--9:10-10:00am Kick-Off Reading Pod-Wangari’s Trees of Peace A True Story From Africa
Team Tree Planting 9:30 AM
Monday--Screen Free/Lights Out Monday
6:00pm--Weber Earth Run/Walk Team 4 playground-bring water bottle. We provide water!
Tuesday--Walk/Ride Your Bike to School (Team 1 & 2 students need to be accompanied by an
adult. Don’t forget your helmet. Remember to walk your bike on school property.)
6:00-7:30pm--Weber Bike Rodeo Bus Circle Participants need to be accompanied by an adult.
Wednesday--Paper Free Wednesday
Book Fair/Spaghetti Supper 3:00-7:00PM
Thursday--Earth Week Poem Contest Winners
Weber Earth Hour Turn out the lights for an hour. Eat dinner, play games, or
tell spooky stories by candlelight. Go out and look at the stars.
Friday--Go Green Day--Wear green to show your support of Earth Day. Waste Free Picnic/bring your
lunch in waste-free, reusuable containers.
Earth Week Poetry Contest
Soles4Souls
Weber Shoe Collection April 13-20
How you can help? Clean out your closets
and RECYCLE gently worn or donate
new shoes. Put a rubber band around
them or tie them together and place in
collection boxes at Weber.
Where will shoes go? Tonya Nicholson
(2005 Weber graduate) had a love for
helping others and had volunteered in Haiti.
Shoes that are collected will be sent to
Soles4Souls, which will ship our collection
to Haiti.

Questions: Contact Samantha or Kathi
Anderson at mainekids@mchsi.com or 341-3640.
Bring shoes, shoes, shoes! Big Shoes, little
shoes, sandals, tennies, boots, ANY shoes!
Enter a poem in our first Weber
Earth Week Poetry Contest.
All entries are due to the front
office by Wednesday, April 18 at
3:00PM.
One student from each team will
be chosen to read their original
poem on Thursday, April 19th.
Prizes will be awarded!

Earth Week

We will be kicking of Earth Week on Friday in our Dolphin Reading Pods. All students will hear the book, Wangari's Tree of Peace. This book is about a girl who lived in a small village in Kenya who made a difference that the world could see. Before she goes to school in America, she remembers her childhood in Kenya as a place full of beautiful green trees. When she returns to Kenya, she sees that the trees that once stood were now destroyed for the new buildings that would rise. Wangari would not stand for this to happen and with one seed at a time and the cooperation of the women in her village she starts a movement across Africa to replant all the trees that had once been chopped. Wangari was jailed for protecting the forest, but even then she did not give up and every tree that was destroyed and many more were planted all across Africa by millions of women. In 2004 she won the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the environment and giving people hope.

After reading the book, we will go outside and help plant FOUR new trees on our Weber grounds!

Check out the 411 for information about the rest of the Earth Week activities. We are hopeful that students will be motivated to continue thinking of ways to celebrate Earth Day beyond the actual day!