Clean & Green Days

For our final school-wide service project of the year, we are dedicating two days to keeping our school “clean and green.” In order to emphasize good citizenship and respect for our environment (two of Alabama’s character traits), students and staff will pick up litter on our playgrounds and do other small tasks to improve our building and outdoor areas. This year we wanted to focus on service projects that our students could do with their own two hands, so this fits right in! We are dividing the school by hallways, so half our classrooms will have their Clean and Green Day on May 5, and the other half will celebrate on May 18.

Thursday, May 5—Circle and Square Hallways

Wednesday, May 18—Triangle and Diamond Hallways, Portables

Would you please help us by doing these two things?

• Dress your child in green on his or her Clean and Green Day
• Send a few plastic grocery bags (the kind you get at Publix or Wal-Mart) to your child’s teacher between now and the Clean and Green Day, so that we can use them to pick up litter.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you very much for your support of all our character education initiatives! You will receive a half-page paper parent note about this project, but, since we are working with two different dates, I am leaving it to the teachers' discretion when to send it home. So the note may come home on different days from different children!