Nadia's Winning Poem

Pine, Palm, Maple, Beech Are Growing in Your Eaten Peach
What should you do when your milk goes sour? Or even if it’s pies? Fling them in the compost with great power But now you’ve got potato eyes!
If your eggs or cheese should spoil They’ll make a rotten smell Toss them in, they’ll turn to soil Your plants will think that’s swell!
Throw your food from yesterday In the bin, it’s there to stay Banana peels Will feel like eels Soon your food has gone away.
It could start out as burned up toast But in the end its rich compost!
Nadia Scoppettone, Grade 4 Union Elementary School

Poetry Reading!

What an amazing job the students did at the class Poetry Reading yesterday - students, please comment (with your name) on how you felt about it!

Poetry Contest!

The two winners from the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District Compost Poetry Contest both came from OUR classroom! Congratulations to Sam and Nadia!
Here is a link to the website to see their winning entries -
http://www.cvswmd.org/2011-school-composting-poetry-contest.html

More Events!

Upcoming Events -

April 14 - Walking trip to Hubbard Park
April 15 - 4 Winds
April 18-22 - Vacation
April 27 - VT State House tour
April 28 -Willy Wonka at Opera House - 9:30/ Class Poetry Reading - 1:30
May 3 - Williston Recycling Center field trip - We need drivers!
May 6 - Day for Strings
May 13 - Egg Drop!
May 17 (tentative) - Waterpalloozza (a day of learning about our local water system with trips to Berlin Pond, Dog River, Waste Water Treatment Plant, Water Treatment Facility) - We need drivers!
May 20 - Rock of Ages
May 26 - Elephant's Child Play
May 27 - Shelburne Museum
June 9 - 4th Grade Field Day

Friday's Field Trips

We had a blast on last week's trips, both at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library for VT Jeopardy and at VT Compost, Moretown Landfill and GrowCompost. Pictures to follow soon!