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Forest Road Students Shine Light on Earth Day

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Forest Road second graders in Kim Lapera’s class recently celebrated Earth Day through engaging activities. The students learned how to create a Google Slide presentation based on the special day and wrote their own acrostic poems to incorporate into National Poetry Month. They also created their own Earth Day-themed suncatchers after learning about the importance of reusing items.

Deborah Thomas, science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics aide, helped the class create the suncatchers using overhead projector sheets, which the class no longer uses. Using rounded pieces cut out from the old overhead project sheets, the students decorated the plastic pieces with images of the Earth, Earth Day saying and more. Mrs. Lapera took her class outside on a nature walk around the school playground to find just the right size branches to hang the decorated plastic pieces on. This resulted in beautiful handmade suncatchers which reinforced the important Earth Day message of reduce, reuse and recycle.