You may have been hearing about “Planet Protectors” these last couple of days…maybe you even heard your child singing the theme song!!

We have started a new Science Unit on the environment called “Planet Protector Academy”.  This trains students as superheros of environmental protection!  This is a GREAT six week program (from BC) that takes students through six modules:

• operation garbage watch (this week)
• operation love food, hate waste
• operation food scraps
• operation waste-free lunch
• operation buy smart
• operation green cycle

Each week is a new focus and there is an at-home component as well.  Your child has brought home their booklet and will ask you to read and sign a couple of pages, as well as engage in discussions around the topic of the week.

In conjunction with “Planet Protector Academy”, I have signed our classroom up for the Green Games, put on by Science World.  This is a contest where schools or classrooms can submit any eco-action project, with a chance to win prizes!  In January our class will be planning and implementing a project to help our school become more ‘green’.  We have yet to firm up any plans but we will be starting this project from the ground up!  I will be taking pictures and documenting the process, with hopes to make positive changes in our school AND win a prize!

If we do win the grand prize, we will win an overnight trip to Science World!  Soooo exciting!

Thank you in advance for supporting your child with their weekly ‘at home missions’…we appreciate it!