Key School Green News Newsletter Vol 2

Key School Green News!

Vol 2

May 3, 2022

GREEN NEWS Key School Green School Updates | Volume 2

ANNOUNCEMENT: KEY SCHOOL HAS BEEN NAMED A

GREEN SCHOOL

FOR THE SECOND TIME!

THANK YOU to everyone who contributed STORIES, pictures, lessons, units, course descriptions, outdoor initiatives, and more. It took a team of people to get Key School re-certified as a Green School. NOW, it is our job to continue to document all the green things we are doing and keep improving. We can only go UP from here!

EARTH JUSTICE MONTH

CAMPUS CLEAN UP

It's clear that the Earth and the people that call this place home need a lot more love than they are getting!

Calling All Divisions!

Let's find creative ways to keep this campus clean!

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KEEP UP THE MOMENTUM! Need ideas? Here are a few to include before the year ends!

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EARTH JUSTICE MONTH Activities:

Field trips to experience nature

Classes planted seeds

Students learning about fossils

2022 Green Parade with Earth Action Signs

Some studied bees

Hikes on local trails

Families picked up trash on beaches

Some visited Quiet Waters and participated in events.

Green painted lids are being distributed across campus to encourage successful paper recycling. Paper waste from the Manse and the Manse Addition are being gathered and weighed once a week and on average produce 15 lbs of paper waste. What does your division create? Email Amy Cline if your division needs green lids.

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EARTH JUSTICE MONTH Activities: Middle School held an Equity and Inclusion event which students helped plan and gained experience leading workshops. One of the topics included learning about how Plastic is highly toxic to humans and the planet. Plastic is an Earth Justice topic and a social justice issue.

ADOPT A CAMPUS Thank you to everyone who has made campus clean-up a priority! This is an ongoing challenge and needs all of our attention. If we each take our homerooms or advisories to clean the campus once a week, it will make a big difference. The pictures to the right were taking on one day in a 10 minute time span.

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EARTH JUSTICE MONTH Activities

In Jane Zanger’s Global Studies class, students Assembled by Amy Holt Cline

studied Global Climate change through the lens of poetry. They learned about the “Dear Matefele Peinam" poem which is a letter to a young child about the future of the planet.

Students wrote some remarkable free verse poetry about their own sacred spaces. Here are a few of those poems.

For the log by the creek, you are everything I love your peacefulness, your quietude, your familiarity I enjoy sitting down and appreciate the moment.

I will sometimes read a book or simply watch the stream rush by the feeling of the fresh air blowing past me, the melodious songs sang by the birds, the nearby trees dancing in the wind, and the true feeling of home

Dear stream, You are the keeper of peace within me Whenever I feel lost You see something in me that others cannot There’s just something about Your Rust-colored flowing, ebbing, waters Eternally undulating, Up, Down, Right, Left You somehow manage to tell me Everything without a word, Just the sound of Your water is enough To lull anyone to a deep sleep, Full of thought and care, You really do repair, You understand, You believe, You validate, You give so much, And ask for little in return, All You need is my time, But with someone like You, That is a small price to pay for Salvation.

(Christopher Hutson)

you are a friend to me someone I can trust, someone who can comfort me and someone I can always return to (Adam Kugelman) LET’S DEVELOP A GREEN

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Need some Earth Day Every Day Topic ideas?

• Make your spaces visual with Green concepts • Encourage students to help with wall displays that teach concepts for change!

• Discuss ways to make Key more green in thought and action.

• Choose one of the padlet ideas generated by students and make it a reality!

• What anti-plastic pledge can you make?

• Not sure what to do, check out “The Lazy Person’s guide to Saving The World” at https:// www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/ • Explore the UN Global Goals with your students!

Let’s get Key beyond “Sofa Superstar”!

• Join the Global Goals Book Club #SDGBookClub

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We want to hear from you! What have you been discussing, making, building, or digging into in connection to these topics?

Send in your thoughts! acline@keyschool.org LET’S DEVELOP A GREEN

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