Washington School Fourth-Graders Send Earth Day Message With Hallway Display

The students in the fourth grade classes at Washington School researched interesting facts about Earth Day throughout the month of April. The most alarming fact that the children learned was, that the average person uses three hundred plastic bags a year.

 On April 22, the fourth graders visited Pal’s Field armed with gloves and garbage bags on a mission to clean up their neighborhood.  The students were shocked to find that so many people still litter in this day and age. The students understand that they are the future of our planet and wanted to teach others simple ways that they could do their part to help. 

As a culminating project, the classes created Earth Day posters to hang throughout the school hallways explaining what they do to help the earth.  The students then wrote a paragraph describing their poster. Each fourth grade class collected seventy-five bags in order to create a hallway display showing 300 bags, the average amount used by each person in one year. The final project is shown with a couple of students from each class excitedly standing in front of the hallway display. The whole fourth grade hopes that after viewing this display, people will try their best to use reusable bags in an effort to live a greener lifestyle.