Earth Day is April 22nd. How do you celebrate Earth day and teach your students to be respectful and kind to our planet Earth? In kindergarten, I introduce the vocabulary words reduce, reuse and recycle. Using picture cards and a pocket chart we sort items that we can either reduce their usage, reuse or recycle. We also complete a sorting activity later in the week as follow-up activity to see if they truly understand the concept.
This is a great opportunity to let the students share how they help to protect the Earth at their own home. Many share that they save cans or water bottles for recycling.
Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures is a cute movie to help explain the difference between reduce, reuse and recycle. It even gives the history as to how Earth day came about.
For a combined writing and art project, students create a crayon resist and water color painting of the Earth. Then, they write a personal promise to do their part to protect it.
All of the items shared above can be found in my Earth Day Packet in my TpT store.
I wish I would have found this song a little earlier. I think it would have been great to have my students learn it, to perform it at our weekly assembly.
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