Howe Green Team

The field trip will be on Tuesday 5/16. We will meet in the cafeteria at 3:35. Thank you to Mrs. Fakih and Mrs. Chehab for providing pizza and drinks. Students will eat pizza and have a drink, we need to drive to the Environmental Intraoperative Center by 4:15. Park in the structure and meet inside. Make sure your student has a ride.

I have 11 field trip permission slips for:

Lana

Joseph

Celine

Sara

Lianna

Layla

Ali

Zainab

Ava

Ellie

Addie

We need more forms to qualify for the DTE $150 grant. If we get 80% we can get the money for Green Team. This will help us do our spring planting and give us some money for our Rain Garden. Please turn in by Thursday. Even if you are not going to use the materials you can still turn in the form.

I have 8 DTE forms for :

Zainab

Celine

Sara

Lianna

Ellie

Addie

Ava

Layla

The weather will NOT be nice for planting. We will be inside working on a repurpose project. Don’t forget your permission slips and DTE slips.

We had a great presentation from DTE. The Green Teamers learned all about energy and many ways to save energy and save money! Everyone went home with an energy savings kit. They will teach you all the ways to use the items in the kit to save money. Everyone got a Home Energy Worksheet (HEW). Please complete the Home Energy Worksheet and return it back by May 2nd. If it is fully completed by May 2nd then the students will be enter into a drawing, and 1 of the 12 students will get a $50 Amazon gift card. If I get 80% of the 12 HEW forms back then I will win a gift card.

I also sent the permission slip for our trip on May 16th to the U of M Environmental Interpretive Center. We will be learning about Michigan Watershed and get to do a fun pond exploration. Please return the permission slip by May 2nd. If I get a volunteer parent to buy pizza and watch the kids then we could eat a quick piece of pizza before we take off. We need to be there at 4:15. Please let me know if you can help out.

Our next meeting is May 2nd, weather permitting we will be planting flowers.

May 16th will be our last meeting of the year.

If you have any questions or can bring pizza on May 16th please email me at keeblek@dearbornschools.org.

The kits have arrived! DTE will be coming on Tuesday 4/18 at 4 PM with lots of goodies to share! They will be helping us learn how to conserve energy and save money. Everyone will be going home with a kit, unless you opted out. I look forward to seeing everyone one Tuesday.

We will be doing a fun upcycle projects with crayons. We will need more time than usual this week. If your student can not stay until 5:30 please let them know what time you will need them to come out. They can meet you at the office door when you need them.

Wow! The Native American and Alternative Energy Fair was amazing! Everyone did an awesome job! I’m very proud of all of you! I got many compliments from parents, teachers, the principal and the superintendent. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. I’m so happy that the superintendent took the time to come and actually interacted with our students and he said that he was very impressed that students were very knowledgeable about their topics. Here is a link to the pictures, if you have pictures to share feel free to add them to the album!

Next Green Team meeting is March 21st. 4-5 pm.

Reminder parents are coming in to pick up their students and see the Native American and Alternative Energy Fair today at 3:30. I just asked the office and they can not leave a door unlocked for safety reasons.  So please park in the front parking lot and if it gets full there is parking across the street.  Then come in the playground door.  Sorry for any inconvenience. Remember to check out with me before you leave 4 PM. We are very excited about our parents seeing all our hard work!

Parents please come at 3:30 to see the fair. Green Teams students will dismiss from the cafeteria. Please park and come in, see the fair and check in with Mrs Keebler before helping your child bring their projects home at 4:00. See you tomorrow!

Please park and come in to see our Green Team present their Alternative Energy projects. 3rd graders will be presenting their Native American Projects also. Projects may go home at 4 PM.

Next Green Team Meeting is 3/21 4-5 PM

Make sure you are finishing up you trifold board project for the fair next Thursday.

Next meeting Tuesday, March 7, 4-5 pm.