Because Being Green is Really Cool: Spring Hill Students Celebrate Walking to School

Submitted by Ruth Donahue, Spring Hill Elementary School

Spring Hill Elementary School students took International Walk to School Day to heart this month.

Teachers did, too: They met their students in the children's neighborhoods and walked or biked to school with them in the cool, early-morning air on Oct. 9.

One student chose roller blades as her preferred method of transportation. Another used his wheelchair because of an injured leg. And teacher Samantha Fitzsimmons marched with a group of sign-carrying students as they sang.

Led by megaphone-toting teacher Debra Bulford, they chanted:

Spring Hill Students walk to school
Because being green is really cool!
Sound off, one, two
Sound off three, four
Sound off one, two, three, four

Reducing carbon footprints is our theme
If we succeed our air will be clean!
Sound off, one, two
Sound off three, four
Sound off one, two, three, four

Spring Hill students walk and bike,
Because being green is what we like!
Sound off, one, two
Sound off three, four
Sound off one, two, three, four