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THIS WEEK'S AES WASTE-FREE STAR OF THE WEEK: Congratulations to Becca K. in third grade! Becca has the most amazing assortment of reusable containers! She has a different shape and size for each food item in her lunch! Now that's waste-free organization! Becca also brings her drink in a reusable bottle - and you should see her fashionable purse-like lunch bag! Being green is also a chance be chic! Thank you, Becca, for your extra efforts to be so kind to the Earth. You are making
a difference! To get a close-up look at our weekly star, visit the Waste-Free Star of the Week bulletin board in Atholton's cafeteria.
Donated Textiles Raise Funds for AES and Enter You into our Flip n' Tumble Drawing
A pledge to donate textiles for our Community Recycles Textile drive was placed in last week's Friday folders. If you sign and send back the pledge, committing to the donation of a bag of textiles before May 10th, your family will be entered in a drawing to win a full set of colorful Flip n' Tumble reusable bags. If you have already donated at least one bag of textiles, please send in the pledge so you will be entered into the drawing as well. Thank you for all of your generous donations. We are getting closer to meeting our goal of 250 bags!
ATHOLTON KICKS OFF EARTH DAY WEEK WITH AES BEAUTIFICATION DAY
To kick off Earth Day Week, AES held its annual AES Beautification Day on Saturday, April 20th - a day for students, staff and family members to work as a community to beautify the school grounds. AES staff and families showed up with gloves and tools to weed, edge, mulch, and trim Atholton's native gardens and to spread wood chips throughout the Outdoor Classroom. Big thanks to the followng families for coming out to join in the fun: The Kings, McPhillips, Lamps, Stotts, Grunebergs, Shins, Drasins, and Wagners. March 20th was a beautiful day to come together as a community, doing something wonderful for our school!
WE'RE HELPING MONARCHS!
After raising, tagging and releasing 14 Monarch butterflies, fifth grade GT Math students sent a symbolic Monarch to Mexico to act as an ambassador, sending a message of appreciation to Mexican schoolchildren who live in the limited regions of Mexico where the amazing Monarch butterflies spend their winter each year. In addition to sending a message of thanks, a personalized class Monarch and a cluster of symbolic Monarchs representing our school, state and country, a donation was made to support the Monarch Butterfly Fund, a non-profit organization that works to preserve the threatened Monarch habitats in Mexico. Thank you, Monarch families, for pitching in to show that we want our Monarchs to continue to make both the U.S and Mexico their home.
ATHOLTON'S AMAZING ELECTRONIC GREEN SCHOOL PORTFOLIO:
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FOR AN AMAZING LOOK AT HOW ATHOLTON HAS BEEN COVERING MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES IN MAINTAINING ITS MD GREEN SCHOOL STATUS, HAVE A LOOK AT OUR SPECTACULAR GREEN SCHOOL PORTFOLIO. WHILE IT REMAINS A CONTINUOUS WORK-IN-PROGRESS, YOU WILL CERTAINLY GET A GLIMPSE AT ATHOLTON'S COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT. CLICK HERE! |
WE'RE RECYCLING CRAYONS!
The National Crayon Recycling Program has kept over 77,000 pounds of crayons out of the landfills. We're going to add to that total by doing our part to recycle crayons here at Atholton. Do you have boxes of used crayons at home that are no loner wanted? We have a bin in our front hallway for the purpose of collecting used unwanted crayons. What will we do with all of these crayone? Well, the bin is open for use by both our school and our community, so if you have a Scout project that necessitates crayons, help youself! Maybe you need some crayons for something you'd like to do with your kids at home - help yourself! Teachers here at Atholton are using these crayons during On-Track celebrations. Any crayons not used by our school and community will be sent off to the National Crayon
Recycling Program, where they will use them to make Crazy Crayons. Funds made by the sale of Crazy Crayons go directly back into the recycling program. For information about the National Crayon Recycling Program, visit: http://www.crazycrayons.com/recycle_program.html
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