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Enviro-Mich message from "Anna Dorothy Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>
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Well, as the mother of two Montessori school daughters, ages 10 and 7, I can
tell you that they are encouraged to be civically minded and environmentally
concerned. Their classes are constantly raising money for causes --
hurricane/disaster relief, shelters, and the like (they sell baked goods and
handicrafts toward that end) -- and they participate in Earth Day events,
recycling, native plant projects, nature study, composting, and clean-ups.
This year the younger children all knitted hats and scarves to donate to
children in homeless shelters. They are also encouraged to express
themselves creatively and they get extraordinary one-on-one attention in
their efforts.
My own seven-year-old asked her buddies to bring donations for the Humane
Society to her seventh birthday party instead of presents and raised more
than $70 to give to them -- her piggie bank is also dedicated to animals.
And my ten-year-old has done class projects on the dangers of pesticides and
on recycling, and she wants to collect donations at her birthday party for
the Nature Conservancy, instead of presents. I encourage this sort of thing
myself, but it really helps when it is part of their school culture.
I suspect that the Catholic schools also emphasize civic responsibility.
Anna
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Enviro-Mich message from "Bonnie Shupe" <bonnies@CANNONTWP.ORG>
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Did anyone else notice that a lot of the contest winners seem to be
attending Catholic or Montessori schools? I find this interesting and I
wonder why...
Bonnie Shupe Blackledge
Cannon Township Clerk
6878 Belding Road NE
Rockford, MI 49341
Phone: 616-874-6966
Cell phone: 616-204-0085
Fax: 616-874-8940
Email: bonnies@cannontwp.org
Web site: www.cannontwp.org
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Subject: E-M:/ Student Earthday Posters
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Enviro-Mich message from "Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2007
Contact: Robert McCann
(517) 241-7397
Student Earth Day Poster Contest Winners
As a part of this year's Earth Day Celebration being held by the
Department of Environmental Quality on Thursday, April 19, Director
Steven E. Chester will be honoring the winners of the 2007 Earth Day
poster contest. The contest was created to promote environmental
awareness by giving students from Kindergarten through 5th grade an
opportunity to design and create a poster celebrating an Earth Day
theme.
This year, more than 1,300 posters were submitted from all over
Michigan; 1st place and 2nd place winners were selected, representing
each of the six grade levels.
"We are inspired by the number of students who participated in the
contest this year," said Director Chester. "The enthusiasm and
creativity of these students serve as an example of why we must protect
our great natural resources for their enjoyment, and for their
children's enjoyment."
The posters will be decorating the walls of Constitution Hall during the
Earth Day celebrations.
The winners are:
Kindergarten
1st Place: Hannah O'Farrell St. Martha School,
Okemos
2nd Place: Alayna Bowman St. Jude School, Grand
Rapids
1st Grade
1st Place: Quinn Franchino Deerfield
Elementary, Novi
2nd Place: Nathan Thomas Orchard Primary School,
Almont
2nd Grade
1st Place: Carlen Rye Bea
McDonald Elementary, Marlette
2nd Place: Eric Chen Edgewood
Public Montessori, Okemos
3rd Grade
1st Place: Benten Cousineau Edgewood Public
Montessori, Okemos
2nd Place: Payton McCall Moore St. John's Catholic
School, Monroe
4th Grade
1st Place: PJ Duerksen Edgewood
Public Montessori, Okemos
2nd Place: Devon Bruck St.
Patrick's Elementary School, Carleton
5th Grade
1st Place: Hikari Woodberry Foreign
Language Immersion Cultural Studies
School, Detroit
2nd Place: Zachary Meyer Upland Hills School,
Oxford
For more information on the Earth Day Poster Contest, and to view the
winning posters, visit the DEQ's Web site at: www.michigan.gov/deq,
click on Environmental Education, and Earth Day.
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"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave and severe; it
is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share."
-- Goethe
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