Projects of Week 4

Week 4: Solutions
Week 4

Placed by Carmen Clay 2021/Nov/4
Homeschool
North America USA
State: 
OK

Description: 

My kindergarten grandson made a video to send to the astronauts at the Space Station before seeing them at the beginning of the EarthShot Prize Awards. In the video he states his solution: Use, reuse, recycle, repurpose.  He has consistently done this for the past two years.   He attended a farm school last year.  There, he learned about composting and made his parents start composting at home.  He stopped using a lot of toilet paper to save the trees.  He also took farmers' discarded produce, still in good condition, to make "home culinary creations."  This year, he was described as being the ring leader of dumpster diving.  He will bring home paper from the waste paper basket to add texture to his art creations.  No Amazon cardboard is safe.  He destroys them to place them in the recycle bin or uses them to build rocket ships, imaginary constructions, innovative creations.  He involves the whole family in the process and gets us to participate in playing with the finished products.

I will keep updating this throughout the year because I want to see what greater exposure to the resources and apps in the Climate Action curriculum and lesson plans will generate in this highly active and innovative mind.  I am also ordering some of the books recommended here for my grandchildren for the upcoming holidays.  I wonder what those books will bring to the hearts and minds of my grandchildren.  The list of books sounds fabulous, but some are not available at our public libraries yet.  I will make sure I request them to be purchased for more kids to be exposed to at least the high quality childrens' literature in the book.

My granddaughter at this time is just following his lead.  As my grandson states, "She will listen to me, not to the grown-ups.  She copies me."  His kindness and concern for the environment are also making him value his sister's athletic abilities.


Impressions

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