We first discussed what the environment was. How without trees & other natural habitats, animals would have no where to live, we would not have beautiful places to hike & explore, and how plants produced oxygen for us to breath. We also talked about how these resources were given to us by God to use, but we needed to use them wisely & respectfully.
The kids were very fascinated with recycling. I got a pile of things out of the recycle bin & we identified them all & how these things came from the environment & how we take less from the environment when we reuse them. We got some neat books from the library about what happens to items once they are recycled. Michael especially loved the idea that paper we recycled became products like paper towels, kitty litter, and toilet paper. And I had no idea that fleece was made from recycled plastic bottles! And of course we made crafts from recycled materials like the above tp tube snake.
Planting trees & flowers is a great way to help the environment and so we tied that into our lesson by transplanting the flowers we planted from PLANT week into a bigger pot. Lizzie also planted a flower for mothers day at preschool and that was a nice surprise :)
This is a horrid pic of Michael, but what can ya do! While I went to Time Out For Women (a women's conference through my church) for the weekend, Daddy took the kids to a light house & old military fort. They had a great time riding the ferry and enjoying the environment & world around them.
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