Week 17: MSU Recycling Club

MSU Recycling Club came to my school last week and taught us about garbology and how to save the planet's environment.

Every day they weighed our garbage that we threw away at lunchtime, and the first day it was 82 pounds. The second day it was 73 pounds. The third day it was 83 pounds, and the last day it decreased so much it was only in the 50's! We got all excited about that and that day, we had a big assembly to see who was the Recycling King and Queen. A whole bunch of people saw that and we thought that the 6 (they added the milk that we poured out, too) was a 0, and so it looked like 03.4 pounds that we threw away and we were totally freaking out! But then we realized that it was 63.

The Recycling King was Kyle Steen, and the Recycling Queen was my best friend, Mari Aoki, and I got mentioned because I helped my friend Ally Bauerle collect biodegradable things to put in her grandparents' compost pile.

I like the MSU Recycling Club because they are really nice and they seem to know what they're doing.

Thank you, Kevin, Zach, Maddie, Kari, and Kina.

Here's an article about Kevin!

Week 16: SaveACulture.com

I learned about this from a Tibetan lama who came to my classroom. His name was Tenzin Konchock.

He told us about how Tibetan lamas live and how China was taking over Tibet and how Tibetan families escaped to Nepal and India to try and make schools and keep their religion alive. In the schools in Tibet, they did the Chinese history and the Chinese religion, and so they wanted to keep their religion alive.

Visit the Antahkarana Society International

Week 15: Greenscool

Greenscool is a non-profit organization that installs renewable energy systems and educates children in impoverished schools around the world.

We read about Greenscool in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and we think it is really neat!

Visit Greenscool

Week 14: ROC Wheels

ROC Wheels is a group right here in Bozeman that makes and distributes wheelchairs for kids in developing countries in Africa, Iraq, Peru and other places.

I chose this because if the kids in these developing countries didn't have these wheelchairs they would just be lying around in the dust with everyone ignoring them, and they would get painful sores on their bodies.

Visit ROC Wheels in Bozeman, Montana!