This year's theme for Earth Day Week is "Earth-Friendly Transportation."  We are using this theme to encourage our families and staff to engage in some Earth Day Week activities:

• Starting this weekend and running all week, through next weekend, AES families are encouraged to take 'selfies' of any Earth-friendly transportation they engage in to get somewhere, which could include walking, bike-riding, carpooling, or taking a bus.  Selfies should include everyone involved and should be sent to Mrs. Simon in the front office (michelle_simon@hcpss.org).  She will print them out and put them on a bulletin board in our front hallway.  Our goal is to fill up the board with pictures of our students and staff using Earth-Friendly ways to get around in our community.  When you email your selfie to Mrs. Simon, be sure to explain the photo.
• An "Earth-Friendly Transportation" survey can be found in today's Friday folders.  Please consider reading the directions to fill out one or more portion(s) of the survey.  Each portion returned to school will serve as a submission for daily drawings during morning announcements.  Surveys will get shared on announcements and posted on our hallway tree.  We look forward to hearing how the families of our school consider the Earth while getting from one place to another.

All students were presented this information by fifth grade Green Ambassadors during Thursday's lunch shifts.  Students were told parents would also receive this information in the Panther Press.  Thank you for participating in Atholton's Earth Day fun.  As always, we will continue our Waste-free lunches, recycling, and our regular environmental instruction   Have a wonderful Earth Day Week; hope you can get outside to enjoy NATURE!