October 12 No School
October 18-19 Goal Setting Conferences - Call office to schedule; students are expected to attend conferences with their parent(s)
October 18 Garden Work Party 1-4:00
October 29 Library Visit - Chaperones Needed
Homework Due by Thursday, October 11th
1. Read for at least 20 minutes every night.
2. Complete 20 minutes of typing practice. Create your own username and password for Typing.com by going to our class page.
3. Complete at least 30 minutes of math practice (click here for DreamBox).
Upcoming Out and Abouts - Chaperones Needed 10/17
This Wednesday, the Plovers will participate in a LEGO engineering lab brought to FGCS by an Intel Outreach program. We will have a special guest teacher facilitate the activity and talk about supply chain (source, make, deliver, reuse).
We will also take a tour of the new apartment building across the street to learn more about our local business community. Next week, the Plovers will visit Goodwill to learn how they help consumers reduce, reuse and recycle!
Volunteer Opportunities
1. Out & About Chaperones - Spots available for Goodwill tour on Oct 17th 9:40 - 11:30
Weekly Review
Last week, we visited Metro Central in NW Portland to learn about what happens to garbage. This is one place that a lot of trash (over 8,000 tons per day!) goes on its way to a landfill or recycling. The video below highlights a lot of the things we were able to see during our visit! We also toured the hazardous waste facility, where they process items that cannot go to the landfill, like batteries, paint, pesticides, cleaners and aerosol cans. As we move forward in our business community project, students will be reminded that the goods produced, bought and consumed in our communities may one day end up at the transfer station. We will also think about how we can all play a role in making our planet more sustainable by taking simple steps at home, work and school to recover resources and dispose of recyclables in the most responsible way.
After the Out & About, the Plovers took a closer look at their own trash from the day. A lot of time on Out & Abouts, all of our lunch waste ends up going into a trash can because we don't have an easy way to compost and recycling at the places we visit. The Plovers sorted their lunch waste to discover how much compost and recycling could be removed from garbage otherwise destined for the landfill. They realized that they are wasting a lot of food every day, and that most of the "garbage" was actually compost and recyclables. Next, they discussed ideas for reducing trash and food waste on Out & Abouts.