Week 6

            Wow! The school year is almost over, and so is our project. We have been preparing the bottle bugs for the third graders and we are almost done. Our project is coming to a close, and now we are gaining more participation from the school. All three elementary wings' tubs were full today! We are beginning to see the results of our efforts in this project. The lesson we have prepared for the third graders will be presented on a slide show. If you would like to see one of our lessons, click on the link at the end of the page.  We will be doing one lesson with each of the three classes. 

             We will also be helping them finish their crafts by adding wings and paint while they are in art class. We have already hot glued on the eyes and legs. This was very time consuming, but we got it done along with washing out and taking the labels off all of the bottles. The most important part of our project is yet to come. I hope that our lessons and crafts will be a great success. We picked third grade to do this project with because they get excited about doing new things and still do not need a lot of help. It was hard for us to choose which grade to do this project with, but we all decided on the third graders. Our goal for the third graders lesson is that they have fun and learn how important recycling is, and what kinds of benefits it holds. 

   

            It is fun to see what people around our school think of our project. We have gotten many questions and   strange looks. It feels like our project is turning out very well. We are getting very good whole school participation. We are now looking forward to the involvement of the third graders. Two of the three third grade classes have brought in over thirty bottles. The other class has not yet made a contribution. Although, we do have more than enough bottles for our project. Our project is almost done, and is turning out great. 

Recycling Slide Show for 3rd grade