Composting Fridays

Composting Fridays are back!!!

This school year, 2nd grade is in charge.
They have the last lunch period and hence get to compost.

4 students per Friday get to participate.
We weigh the compost before putting it into the compost tumbler ( = hands on math!!!)
On Friday, September 28th, we had 44 lbs of compost!!!

BIG Thank You to our Booster club to sponsor a new compost tumbler!
The students had a lot of fun with it: rotating the tumbler to get the compost well mixed.
With this tumbler we'll have compost in no time!

Our compost from last school year is ready for gardening.

4th Grade: Paper Recycling

A big Thank You to Mrs Alkire's students
who took the extra time today to weigh how much paper BCE recycles per week.

They collected 93 lbs of paper and recycled that.

Estimate:
90 lbs of paper every Friday x 35 Fridays per school year = 3,150 lbs
of paper per school year.

That's quite A LOT of paper BCE saves from going into trash!
Way to go!!!

Mrs Stover and some of her 4th grade students recycling paper.

BCE bans helium balloons!

 

A HELIUM balloon will cost $100…

…by next year and won’t exist anymore by 2015!!!

The US will liquidate its

Federal helium reserve by 2015.

Curious why you won’t see HELIUM balloons

at BCE anymore?

Booster Club wants to save our Earth’s precious helium.

Ever had an MRI or know of someone who did? 
No Helium = No more MRIs.

What YOU can do?

Stop buying helium balloons!!!

Thanks for supporting our Earth.

BCBC Green Committee

...and this is definitely NOT a joke.

Here is a pretty good sum up of the situation:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1696371/Global-helium-shortage-could-sink-clowns-and-super 

http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN12/wn051812.html