Mrs. Honda's 3rd grade

Poems

Watershed Studies

Help the Steelhead Salmon!
Chocolate
Restoration
Aquatic Insects

Green Team was featured by United Markets and by Fast Forward, a newspaper for kids!

United Markets celebrates 50 years by applauding the achievements of students, teachers and parents in our community.  Here, we congratulate the fourth and fifth-grade students at Manor School for starting the Green Team!  They are dedicated to taking care of the environment by taking action on their school campus.

Members of the Green Team have adopted all the classrooms at their school.  They teach classes about the Team’s “Seven Goals.” These goals are to be energy efficient, to be water-wise, to recycle, to use re-useable lunch containers, to clean up after themselves and to help birds on their campus.  During lunch time, the Green Team members monitor composting and recycling.  The Green Team also works on the nature trail removing non-native plants, while planting native plants to make it a healthier habitat for wildlife.

The Green Team’s efforts and hard work are inspiring to all as they are becoming lifelong caretakers of our planet.

Green Team Poems

Clean Up After Yourself                                                            Be Waste Free

                                    Gillian and Elle                                           Ari and Max

Don’t leave litter or crumbs                                                            Use reusable

  on the ground. Crumbs                                                           containers for

attract crows and then they                                                  lunch and drinks.

get over populated and eat

  baby birds and lizards.                                                    

                                                                                                Recycle

                                                                                                         Juliet, Natalie and April

Compost                                                                                 You can recycle plastic bottles,

                        Camden, Salem and Martin                                        aluminum, paper and

Compost fruit and veggie scraps                                     cardboard in class.  At lunch

  tea bags and coffee grounds.                                                  look for the boxes and

Look for the green buckets at                                             5-gallon buckets.

      lunch and recess.

Use Water Wisely                                                             Be Energy Efficient

                        Olivia, Charlotte and Sara                                          Elzy, Karli, Ashley & Julia

Turn off the water as soon as you’re                                 Turn off the lights and

finished using it, at home and at school.                           computers when not

                                                                                                in use at school and

                                                                                                home; we’ll be checking

                                                                                                  and giving you a

                                                                                                green or red ticket.

Studying Our Watershed

Students are investigating many different parts of their watershed and learning how to protect and restore it.

This mural of the watershed shows native trees, ferns, flowers, and birds.

Steelhead salmon live in our watershed and they need help! One thing we do is raise money for local organizations who help the steelhead by making our own chocolate bars. Yum!

We can also help the steelhead by removing invasive non-native plants with our friends at STRAW and MMWD

We removed invasive non-native plants on MMWD land and on our Nature Trail.

We planted native bunch grass at Lake Lagunitas.

We can tell if our creeks are healthy by studying the aquatic insects that live in the creeks.