Reduce, Reuse, Recycle with Kitah Bet!

In extension of our ocean discovery learning throughout the school year, we have been focusing on recycling and keeping the ocean and world that Hashem gave us clean and safe.
Using a cardboard box, we created a recycling bin for our very own classroom.

"That's recycling!"
"We recycle at our home!"
"Plastic garbage goes in there."

A lot of the Kitah Bet friends were already familiar with recycling from their routines at home. Now we were practicing recycling in our classroom as well!
In addition to the recycling from our lunches each day, some of us have been bringing in recycling from their own homes such as bottles caps, applesauce caps and plastic lids.
We used the collected recycling materials as loose parts for art making!
We learned that we can make something beautiful with used material, rather than simply throwing it away.
We took paint of all the colors of the rainbow, mixed it with glitter, and set it aside available to paint a rainbow colored artwork using the plastic recycled pieces as stampers.

"Its a circle!"
"I made a fishy"

Using our imagination, we stamped whatever rainbow objects we could think of using our very own plastic recycled pieces.

We have also been working on creating structures and homemade toys using recycled material and loose parts with our school Artlierista, Morah Jessica.

"It's a carriage!"
"I made a race car!"
"Look! A mask!"
The children work deligently on their projects, looking on with pride at their work.

The children have so much pride to see what they can create and accomplish with simply using their own imagines, everyday household items, and some glue and paint. 

We are not only feeling pride in being able to make n impact in helping keep Hashem's world clean safe with recycling, but we are learning that it even makes our creative play so much more innovative and fun!

We look forward to observe where our recycling continue to take us.