Earth Day

I know I am a bit late with this post, however I thought I could at least share my ideas with you for next year.  I love this book.  It is the perfect book for Earth Day.  After I read this book to my class we did two easy art projects.

First I traced the world on the cover of the book and copied it for my little ones.

Then I gave each of my little ones a green, blue and red sharpies and a piece of shrinky dink plastic.

They put the plastic on top of the pattern and colored it in with sharpies.

Then I cut the Earth shape out and punched a hole on the top.

Next we baked the shrinky dink in the toaster oven for 3 minutes and created a necklace.

Our second project started in the morning.   We colored coffee filters blue and green and sprayed them with water.  We let them dry all morning.  

We read the story:

My partner teacher introduced this book to me.  I love it!   It is a must have book for Earth Day!

Then we created our Earth Day Poster!

While we worked on our posters we listened to this song by Jack Johnson.

I love Jack Johnson songs!

Thinking Ahead For Earth Day

I just received my copy of The Earth Book by Todd Parr from Barnes and Noble.   I love it and I highly recommend it for a Earth Day activity.   I just love T. Parr's illustrations.  


For the last two years my class has teamed up with their eighth grade buddies and we did a clean up of the front of our school garden area.  Lots of fun and cooperation.....


Last year and again this year I will have the kids make a necklace of the world out of shrinking plastic material.  They enjoyed watching the world shrink in the toaster oven.  


For more of my classroom ideas on earth day click here:
http://ckprimary.wikispaces.com/Earth+Day