Ricky Recycle Visits Elmwood School!!!

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Elmwood School Joins TerraCycle Drink Pouch Brigade

We are collecting Capri Sun & Kool-Aid Jammer drink pouches to send to a company called TerraCycle so they can be recycled. Our school earns $0.02 for every drink pouch recycled. Pouches will be recycled at lunch or you can bring some from home. Please view the attached flier from TerraCycle for more information.

Elmwood School's Panther Pop-Top Pickups!

Elmwood School is collecting pop-tops for Ronald McDonald House charities. Ronald McDonald House Charities recycles the metal and uses the money to support its charity. Ronald McDonald House Charities in Chicago are trying to build the largest Ronald McDonald House in the world, right here in Chicago! Please bring your pop-tops to school to help out with this wonderful cause!

Please visit their website for more information about their charity.

Cleaning Green

This is a great article about using "green cleaners" in the home. Natural cleaners don't have the toxins found in many commericial cleaners. Try it out!

Read the article here.

2009 School Ground Clean-Up

The "Go Green Club" organized their first major project this year and cleaned up litter from our school grounds. The "Go Green Club" picked up 8.77 pounds of litter off our school campus.

Be a Proud Panther...not a litter bug!

View our slideshow below:

2009 Go Green Club

The students at Elmwood School are back to school and ready to GO GREEN! The "Go Green Club" has over 60 members this year!

4th graders will attend meetings 1st & 3rd semester
5th & 6th graders will attend meetings 2nd & 4th semester

Elmwood's Exciting Earth Week

Elmwood students celebrated Earth Week with many exciting activities! We participated in a spirit week - Monday was "Sock it to Pollution Day" and we wore crazy socks, Tuesday was "Turn Your Back on Litter Day" and we wore our shirts backwards, Wednesday we wore blue and green for Earth Day, Thursday was "Tie it All Together Day" and we wore ties made out of recycled items, and Friday was school spirit day. The Go Green Club held an all school assembly and performed the reader's theatre of the book "The Great Kapok Tree".


Here are our pictures from Earth Week: