What if we were Super Hero Eco Warriors?

It has been an Eco Feature Week this week and we got off to a brilliant start with all the fabulous Eco show and tell contributions we received from home.

We have been learning about the properties of different materials over the past couple of weeks and this helped the children understand why plastics can be so damaging in the environment for such a long period of time. 

We talked about what it means to be Eco friendly and how we can look after our wonderful world by recycling, reusing and also reducing our use of valuable resources. After sharing ideas and lots of fabulous discussion on Monday the plans for our ‘open house’ on Friday afternoon began to take shape. We read a book by Ellie Bethel called 'Michael Recycle' and this inspired us to create our own Eco Warrior Super Heroes using our super hero capes. The children decided which cape would represent which element of Eco Week. We needed four to cover all the elements of looking after the environment (including litter picking and looking after plants and animals), as well as the ‘Reduce, Recycle and Reuse’ categories. The children decided the fourth category would be ‘Love our wonderful World’. It was also their idea to make stickers with the ‘Super Hero’ images on and I thought it would be a good idea to choose cuddly animals from our extensive collection to wear the capes. 

The sticker book idea came from the children’s love of making ‘books’ and cards with stickers on and we thought it would be something they could keep at home to remind them that they were the experts who taught all our visitors about how to look after our Wonderful World.

During the week we also learned a recycling song and watched a video of the song by Louis Armstrong ‘What a Wonderful World’ made by the BBC.

Finally, all our activities and areas were made ready for our VIP visitors. We had activities for Recycling, Reuse, Reduce and Love our World. The children earned one of the stickers we had designed together, and suck it in their book, when they had ‘taught’ our visitors about each specific area.

Thank you for coming! It was lovely to see so many parents join us in the afternoon. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and were able to see how hard the children have been working over the week in preparation.