The Green Team has something fun to announce. It's official: South Arbor Charter Academy has been named a Michigan Green School for the 2012 - 2013 school year!
And not only that, because we completed more than 15 checkpoints, we were awarded the Emerald Distinction! For a list of the checkpoints that we submitted, and links to more details and pictures, visit the Checkpoints Update page here.
The Green Team is proud, energized, and downright giddy with this news. In fact, some of us got so inspired that we gave ourselves over to a bit of musical theater - slash - photojournalism.
(Despite our best efforts, technical difficulties got in the way of the music correctly matching the photos, but you get the idea.)
And the year is not over yet. There are at least three other projects in the works.
1) The Brownie troop is planning to install a vegetable garden in the space between the Primary and Intermediate Halls.
2) The Paper Renewal Project is underway in recognition of Earth Day, April 22 (come to morning assembly if you can).
3) There are hopes to create a purposeful space in the back schoolyard - a Native Meadow.
While the Emerald distinction is quite a nice recognition for all of the work the Green Team is doing, the best reward is knowing that we are raising awareness in the South Arbor community about the value of caring for the natural world. South Arbor is getting greener!
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