Earth Day Book Swap!

It was our third annual Earth Day celebration in the Library. We hosted the Earth Day Recycled Art Day Contest, and Book Swap. We encourage two things on Earth Day in the library- reading, of course, and the concept of reusing, reducing, and recycling. Instead of throwing out a book, we allowed children to swap up. We set a new record when a whopping 499 were swapped! We had almost 30 entries for our Recycled Art Contest as well.

Keep it green, Eagles, and as always, keep reading!

Earth Day Recycled Art Contest Winners and Party!

Our Earth Day Recycled Art Contest was a blast! We had even more entries than last year. Ten winners were chosen and got donated gift bags with lots of cool stuff from Home Depot. Congratulations to our winners - Mackenzie, Isabella, Catelyn, Zinai, Shelby, Natalie, Raven, Nicholas, Sebastian and Ryan!

Earth Day Book Swap!

The Earth Day Book Swap was a giant success! An overwhelming majority of students participated in the Earth Day "Renew, Reuse, Recycle!" Book Swap! Students brought gently used books that were too easy for them, or didn't want to reread, and swapped them for a brand new book to take home and keep! It was a win win. Mrs. Fournier is so happy with how it turned out, and hopes to celebrate Earth Day the same way next year. Happy Reading!

Book Swap

The Art Department and the Library have joined forces to co-host an Earth Day Festival! There are two fun activities happening- you can choose to participate in one or both!

Want to refresh your home library? Bring gently used books between Monday, April 18and Thursday, April 21st. On Thursday, students can come back to shop- bring one book, take one book. Bring 5 books, take 5 books! This is a great way to show our students we can reduce, re-use and recycle.

There will also be a gallery walk happening in the library that day. This is the 2nd annual Forest North Recycled Art Contest. Bring art made of objects found at home that incorporates reusing and recycling!

Below you will find a flyer with all of the information for both projects. Feel free to print a copy to use as your registration for the Art contest. Each art project will need to have the bottom portion attached to the project so that we know who wins and who to return the projects to. All participants win a prize, and 10 lucky winners will be selected to come celebrate in the library with a special prize pak full of earth-loving goodies!

See you there, Eagles and can't wait to see all of your creative art projects!

Earth Day Recycled Art Contest

Happy Earth Day, Eagles!

Mrs. Lajaunie and Mrs. Fournier love our Earth. We decided to celebrate by having a Recycled Art contest here in the library. Students could put together recycled goods in any artistic combination to submit them to the contest. This open-ended challenge was perfect for our creative students! We were so amazed at the art we received!

All of Forest North Elementary was invited to walk through our gallery of recycled art. Our panel of esteemed judges were astounded at the level of inventiveness and perspective our artists demonstrated.

All 37 of our talented artists won two hypercolor Earth Day pencils that turned from green to yellow when you touched them. Fifteen participants were invited to the library at the end of Earth Day for a party! Mrs. Lajaunie arranged for donations from Home Depot! Home Depot was kind enough to donate kits that could be built into herb garden birdhouses, cool orange aprons, and special pins, too! We had a snack of Sun Chips in special compostable bags, and water from recyclable water bottles. The water bottles were already reused for a project in Mrs. Rugerio's Pre-K class.

Thanks so much for all 37 participants, and congratulations on your wonderful art.