Composting Fridays at BCE

Barton Creek Elementary school is proud to announce:
Composting Fridays!

We are composting all fruit and veggie leftovers. 
Our BCE students know: "First Eat, Then Compost".

Why do we want to compost at BCE?
Are a few pounds of compost every Friday really worth while the trouble
(our very first Friday we had 38 pounds)?
You bet!

1st grade students composting fruit leftovers

Our kids are the future to a greener earth. It is not really about composting a few pounds of leftovers here and there, it is about educating our children about a greener earth, not being wasteful but being respectful and responsible citizens, learning about soil (dry Texas soil vs lifely compost soil) and just having FUN!
Yes, composting is FUN! BCE students are all excited to compost.

 All of 1st grade took over composting as a year long service project. The kids learned about soil, learned what to compost and how, made poster boards and educated all other grades about composting.

Math and Composting?
We weigh each compost bucket and the kids get to add the weight of 4 compost buckets together.

 A view into our compost  bin:

 Hopefully by spring time we will have compost for BCE's veggie garden!