Green Ribbon Week

Well Julie and I survived our first big PTA event. We are on the board as the health and safety commisioners so we were in charge of Green Ribbon Week together last week. It was a crazy busy week and we felt like we lived at the school, but it turned out really good. The first day we planned to do a big balloon launch for the kickoff and every student would get to release a green balloon for signing their pledge to be safe. We spent the entire day at the school blowing up 550 balloons and of course the only hour we needed it to be good weather, it was raining and lightning so we couldn't take all the students out on the field at once like we planned. We improvised and took them out one grade at a time in front of the school so they could come right back in and not have to be out in the rain. We did have the newspaper show up and do a little clip on the event, which was cool but it would have been lots better with 550 of them being launched at the same time. Oh well what do you do? The kids still seemed to enjoy it!

Tuesday was "Protect you Head day" everyone wore crazy hats and we held a drawing for bike helmets for anyone that wore a crazy hat.

Tuesday we also helped with the bonus recess the kids had earned from selling Happenings books.

Adrie wore her crazy mask from preschool instead of a crazy hat.

Wednesday was "walk to school day" We passed out fruit snacks to everyone walking to school.

Thursday was "You CAN be Safe" - we had everyone bring cans of food to donate to the food bank. We collected 487 pounds of food in one day. Not bad!

Friday was "Be seen in Green"-everyone who wore green got green taffy at lunch-almost the entire school had worn green. It was great. We also had an emergency drill to end the safety week.

Kyra thought it was great that we were at the school so much last week and this week she keeps asking if we are going to be there again this week.