News and Updates
JANUARY 2017
PS 34 Eco-Schools: Upcoming Eco-Events:
News and Updates by Tina Wong PS34 Eco-Parent Green Team Leaders In December, we announced our Eco-Parent Green Team Leaders: Kelley Vaughn-Kauffman and Lisa Jaycox. Together, they will lead various eco-initiatives and events. If you are interested in being part of the Eco-Parent Green Team, join their meetings on the last Mondays of every month. Some Eco-Action Teams that you can be involved in are: (1) Eco-Events & Workshops – Family-focused, (2) Eco-Curriculum & Field Trips – Student-focused, (3) Eco-Grant Writing and Fundraising, (4) Eco-Outreach & Marketing, (5) Healthy Schools & Healthy Homes, and (6) Diversity & Inclusion. Together, we can work on continuing to Green PS34!
Google Doodle Contest
submission and Herros’ (5-211).
below,
Leslie
wards, you will have an opportunity to participate in tree stewardship at MulchFest and help spread the mulch on our street trees! For more info: http://on.nyc.gov/2iLNMN4
Good luck to our students who submitted!
Green STEM Afterschool Club Selected students in our Green STEM Afterschool Club from the 4th and 5th grades completed the Waste Unit of our program and shared out via a US-wide Skype Party with students from our partner school and various organizations. When asked what they learned about themselves, students said, “we learned about our role in the community, being a student, learning how to take care of the earth...." "I learned we don't have to wait for the government to get involved, we can just go out and do it and make changes!" Our eco-schools program empower students to become leaders, to have a voice and a point of view, they build confidence and teaches compassion and empathy.
Over Thanksgiving Break, we offered students from 3-5 grades and opportunity to participate in the “Doodle 4 Google” contest.
The contest asked, what does our future look like? But for PS34, we asked students to think about what a “green” future will look like. See above, Filip Kaminski’s (4-201)
Saturday, January 7, 11:00a-1:00p – MulchFest: Drop off your Christmas tree in McCarren Park and it will be chipped into mulch by NYC Parks / Greening Greenpoint! After-
For more information on PS34’s Eco-Programs and how you can be involved, email me at [email protected]
Tina Wong-Hodgson, Sustainability Coach Greenpoint Eco-Schools Program National Wildlife Federation [email protected] www.eco-schoolsusa.org
Wednesday, January 25, 5:30-7:30p – Community Workshop @MS126: Join us in a conversation with Geoffrey Cobb, author of “Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past ,” as he shares with us the history of Greenpoint as well as some environmental impacts in our local community. This is a bi-lingual workshop; Polishonly speakers are welcome to attend! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/2iMbZTo
Monday, January 30, 2:45-3:45p – Eco-Parent Workshop: This month, we will discuss the vision and mission statement of the new Eco-Parent Green Team and talk about the various Eco-Action Teams that you can sign up & be involved in. We will also introduce & discuss the next Eco-Event –
PS34’s 1st Eco-Fashion Runway Show to take place in May! The 3 Collection show will highlight, Greenpoint’s Past, Present and Future. Students from ALL grades can participate!
PS 34 Eco-Schools: Upcoming Eco-Events:
News and Updates by Tina Wong PS34 Eco-Parent Green Team Leaders In December, we announced our Eco-Parent Green Team Leaders: Kelley Vaughn-Kauffman and Lisa Jaycox. Together, they will lead various eco-initiatives and events. If you are interested in being part of the Eco-Parent Green Team, join their meetings on the last Mondays of every month. Some Eco-Action Teams that you can be involved in are: (1) Eco-Events & Workshops – Family-focused, (2) Eco-Curriculum & Field Trips – Student-focused, (3) Eco-Grant Writing and Fundraising, (4) Eco-Outreach & Marketing, (5) Healthy Schools & Healthy Homes, and (6) Diversity & Inclusion. Together, we can work on continuing to Green PS34!
Google Doodle Contest
submission and Herros’ (5-211).
below,
Leslie
wards, you will have an opportunity to participate in tree stewardship at MulchFest and help spread the mulch on our street trees! For more info: http://on.nyc.gov/2iLNMN4
Good luck to our students who submitted!
Green STEM Afterschool Club Selected students in our Green STEM Afterschool Club from the 4th and 5th grades completed the Waste Unit of our program and shared out via a US-wide Skype Party with students from our partner school and various organizations. When asked what they learned about themselves, students said, “we learned about our role in the community, being a student, learning how to take care of the earth...." "I learned we don't have to wait for the government to get involved, we can just go out and do it and make changes!" Our eco-schools program empower students to become leaders, to have a voice and a point of view, they build confidence and teaches compassion and empathy.
Over Thanksgiving Break, we offered students from 3-5 grades and opportunity to participate in the “Doodle 4 Google” contest.
The contest asked, what does our future look like? But for PS34, we asked students to think about what a “green” future will look like. See above, Filip Kaminski’s (4-201)
Saturday, January 7, 11:00a-1:00p – MulchFest: Drop off your Christmas tree in McCarren Park and it will be chipped into mulch by NYC Parks / Greening Greenpoint! After-
For more information on PS34’s Eco-Programs and how you can be involved, email me at [email protected]
Tina Wong-Hodgson, Sustainability Coach Greenpoint Eco-Schools Program National Wildlife Federation [email protected] www.eco-schoolsusa.org
Wednesday, January 25, 5:30-7:30p – Community Workshop @MS126: Join us in a conversation with Geoffrey Cobb, author of “Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past ,” as he shares with us the history of Greenpoint as well as some environmental impacts in our local community. This is a bi-lingual workshop; Polishonly speakers are welcome to attend! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/2iMbZTo
Monday, January 30, 2:45-3:45p – Eco-Parent Workshop: This month, we will discuss the vision and mission statement of the new Eco-Parent Green Team and talk about the various Eco-Action Teams that you can sign up & be involved in. We will also introduce & discuss the next Eco-Event –
PS34’s 1st Eco-Fashion Runway Show to take place in May! The 3 Collection show will highlight, Greenpoint’s Past, Present and Future. Students from ALL grades can participate!
