A class of seventh-graders and a class of first-graders at Daniel Island School joined forces on Friday morning to celebrate Earth Day at their school.
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Schools and classes across the district regularly do different events to promote the importance of keeping their school and community clean.
Shortly after the first bell rang, seventh-grade geography teacher Amy Hardison and her homeroom students ventured out to the school’s outdoor classroom. They were soon joined by Lori Franko’s first-graders.
After splitting all the students up into four groups, the seventh-graders walked their first-grade buddies around the nature trails in front of the school to allow the younger learners the chance to pick out a spot to establish four new bird feeders.
Putting out the birdfeeders was made possible by Hardison scoring a $100 Keep Berkeley County Beautiful School Grant earlier this year. After the groups found new places to perch the bird feeders, the first-graders helped hold the feeders so Hardison could fill them with seed.
After the students were done with the bird feeders, the seventh-graders partnered up with the first-graders to help them make colorful PSAs promoting Earth Day on sketch pads. The first-graders wrote down ways they plan on helping the environment, like doing their best to recycle.
Keep Berkeley Beautiful is a volunteer organization geared toward improving recycling, reducing litter and beautifying communities. Hardison is actually one of three Daniel Island School teachers who received a grant from Keep Berkeley County Beautiful; seventh-grade science teacher Allison Woods applied for funds to be spent on creating posters for science lab materials to foster more hands-on lab experiences, while fifth-grade teacher Renee Lambert had plans to purchase some work gloves, trash bags, a scale and some grabber tools, and then have her two science/math classes complete monthly trash pickups around the school. Berkeley County School District had a total of 13 teachers across the district who scored such a grant geared toward outdoor beautification projects this year.
Be sure to flip through photos of the students doing their part to beautify their campus on Earth Day.
Monica Kreber
kreberm@bcsdschools.net
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