Music
Recycling Song (Tune of: The More We Get Together)
The more we all recycle,
Recycle, recycle,
Oh, the more we all recycle
The better Earth will be.
Aluminum and paper,
Glass, cardboard and plastic.
These all can be recycled
By you and by me.
Its Earth Day (Tune of: A Tisket, a Tasket)
It's Earth Day, it's Earth Day
What can we do on Earth Day
To make the world a better place?
Let's (pick up trash) on Earth Day.
(you can also use: plant a tree, recycle, save water, turn off the lights)
Group activity:
Recycling Song (Tune of: The More We Get Together)
The more we all recycle,
Recycle, recycle,
Oh, the more we all recycle
The better Earth will be.
Aluminum and paper,
Glass, cardboard and plastic.
These all can be recycled
By you and by me.
Its Earth Day (Tune of: A Tisket, a Tasket)
It's Earth Day, it's Earth Day
What can we do on Earth Day
To make the world a better place?
Let's (pick up trash) on Earth Day.
(you can also use: plant a tree, recycle, save water, turn off the lights)
Group activity:
Rescue the habitat!
Cut a pond shape out of a blue plastic table cloth, make pond creature cut outs and recyclable cut outs,and I laminated them so that I could save them, but you could also use real (clean) litter. You put all of the creatures (fish, ducks, frogs) into the pond and explain to the children that when people litter,it makes the creatures who live in the pond sad because their home is dirty and they can no longer live there. Then children add the litter to the pond, but for each piece they must take away one creature. When all of the pond creatures are gone, invite the children to "clean up" the pond, and as they do, the pond creatures can return to their home!
Litter Sorting Lable three boxes (words and photos) with either paper, plastic, or aluminum. Have a mixture of clean recyclable items for children to sort through and put in the correct box...they can dump and sort again, and again.
Change the world! Clean up the around your school or center together as a group...explain that everyone can make a difference!
What can we do to help? Discuss ways to save power and preserve water...what can we do at our school to help the environment...make a chart,and a plan!
Cut a pond shape out of a blue plastic table cloth, make pond creature cut outs and recyclable cut outs,and I laminated them so that I could save them, but you could also use real (clean) litter. You put all of the creatures (fish, ducks, frogs) into the pond and explain to the children that when people litter,it makes the creatures who live in the pond sad because their home is dirty and they can no longer live there. Then children add the litter to the pond, but for each piece they must take away one creature. When all of the pond creatures are gone, invite the children to "clean up" the pond, and as they do, the pond creatures can return to their home!
Litter Sorting Lable three boxes (words and photos) with either paper, plastic, or aluminum. Have a mixture of clean recyclable items for children to sort through and put in the correct box...they can dump and sort again, and again.
Change the world! Clean up the around your school or center together as a group...explain that everyone can make a difference!
What can we do to help? Discuss ways to save power and preserve water...what can we do at our school to help the environment...make a chart,and a plan!
Sensory Table: make litter cut outs out of foam paper, place in water table (pond) and give the children small strainers or goldfish nets to clean up the pond.
Art:
Give the earth a hand...very simple blue paper circle, let the children slap green handprints on it for a very cute earth
Litter Bugs...Use a full page bug cutout, copy for each child, and let them use magazine cut outs or clean litter to decorate
Litter leaves and impression...Use various clean litter (soda can plastic, bubble wrap, cans, ect.) and let the children use crayons to make rubbings.
Science: Let each child make their own little greenhouse out of a clean parfait container from Dairy Queen or McDonalds.
Math:
We use bottle and milk caps in our math center as counters...you can sort the different colors, make patterns, and my kiddos even like stacking them!
Literacy:
Cut out lables from food containers (cheerios, poptarts,ect., then make word cards (I, like, love) and children can make simple sentences to read all by themselves.
Give the earth a hand...very simple blue paper circle, let the children slap green handprints on it for a very cute earth
Litter Bugs...Use a full page bug cutout, copy for each child, and let them use magazine cut outs or clean litter to decorate
Litter leaves and impression...Use various clean litter (soda can plastic, bubble wrap, cans, ect.) and let the children use crayons to make rubbings.
Science: Let each child make their own little greenhouse out of a clean parfait container from Dairy Queen or McDonalds.
Math:
We use bottle and milk caps in our math center as counters...you can sort the different colors, make patterns, and my kiddos even like stacking them!
Literacy:
Cut out lables from food containers (cheerios, poptarts,ect., then make word cards (I, like, love) and children can make simple sentences to read all by themselves.
