The Environment: Carbon Footprint

We took care of our morning gardening chores after a good breakfast and journaling time. There was plenty to do because weeds grow fast! We planted more cucumbers too. We also worked in front of the school more to help it look even better. A gardener's work is never done!

While we took a break for snack, Miss Smith shared with us what a carbon footprint is and helped us think of examples in our own lives. A carbon footprint is how much carbon we as humans create. Some of us create more and some of us create less. Our decisions about how we travel, the kind of light bulbs we use, the kind of food we eat, and many more things can have an impact on our carbon footprint.

After lunch in the courtyard, we stayed outside for our silent reading time. We came inside to journal more and to prepare to go into the computer lab. Miss Smith found a cool website that helped each of us calculate our carbon footprint. You can calculate yours by clicking on this link. We wrote down our results and came back to class to talk about what we discovered. Some of us had a bigger carbon footprint than others, and we all agreed that there are things we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.

We finished the day feeding the frogs and gecko's in the library and getting ready for tomorrow. We are excited that sometime this week Miss Tocco might stop in to tell us about her gardening experience this summer!