Second Time Around Yard Sale

Mark your calendar for the Creeds Second Time Around Yard Sale Saturday, November 20th from 8-12noon. It is your opportunity to sell some treasures you are nolonger using or to purchase some treasures from someone else. If you wish to sell your treasures, tables are $10 each and the money goes to purchasing eco-friendly cloth napkins and real silverware for celebrations. They may require a little washing, but we won't be sending anything to the landfill. Besides when the children use cloth napkins and create their own napkin rings, they real like royalty. In addition, there will be Frog Bog tours and healthy snacks for sale. We hope to see you there. What might you be looking for or looking to get rid of this fall?

Terracycle Drop Off

I dropped off 3 boxes for UPS to deliver to Terracycle instead of the landfill last night. It was 12.25 pounds of corks, 8.3 pounds of zipper bags, and 11.4 pounds of empty drink pouches. They should recieve it and processes it in the next couple of weeks so that we will recieve our check for it in December. Please continue to send in your collections for us to send to Terracycle. Remember zipper bags don't have to be Ziploc, any brand will do. Also, they don't have to be cleaned out, just rinse them if they had something wet/yucky in them. Still wet inside or coated with cheese curl dust is fine. It all gets cleaned and shredded as it starts its new life. Do you think we can beat these totals with out next shipment?

New Turtle in the Neighborhood

Mr. Andy found a box turtle on the road and brought it to Creeds to see if it liked the habitat we had created better than the dangerous roadway. It moved right in to the tall grassy canopy of the Frog Bog when Mrs. Marx's class took it out. Do you see it in the picture? It didn't take long for it to disappear. The camophlaged shell blends into the surroundings perfectly. I hope she will be happy. Do you think she will like the moist, grassy habitat? Let me know if you see her.

THE THAMES IS THE WORLD'S LEAST POLLUTED RIVER

London's world famous river won this award for their efforts to restore the Thames which had become a waterway polluted with sewage and industrial waste where wildlife could not survive. Sixty years later it attracts salmon, sea trout, and otters. It is now a healthy habitat for some 125 species of fish. Water pollution is a global problem affecting all of us. London, England has taken a step to correct the problem. Three cheers for their efforts! What will you do to help reduce water pollution?

Tidewater Fiber Company

We were lucky today to have Kathy Russell of Tidewater Fiber Company visit our school to spread the word about recycling, reducing, and reusing. She was a wealth of information. She brought her therapy dog Taylor with her with a cape like a super hero sidekick. These are some of the comments coming from our super smart 4th graders: Trey said, "He learned to recycle only plastic bottles with a one or a two on it" in the recycle triangle. Emily said, "I learned that there is a trash island in the Pacific Ocean." Timothy said, "I learned that what you recycle can be used and sold again." And Phillip said, "I learned that recycling is important because you don't have to destroy nature to make cans again." I was please to learn that you can leave the cap on bottles being recycled because they have updated the machinery to separate shredded bottles and caps. What did you learn today?

Conservation Chiefs

Yeah, for the Chiefs...the Conservation Chiefs. The Conservation Chiefs met for the first time today. They will be bringing information back to their class to share with classmates on how to properly prepare our Terracycle collections for shipment. We almost have a box full of Capri Sun drink pouches, corks, and zipper bags. Keep collecting and giving them to your Conservation Chief. If you have questions, look for your Chief, they are your expert on the spot.

2010 Day of Caring

Volunteers are a wonderful thing. It is thanks to the amazing volunteers that joined us September 10th that we now have our 1st grade garden raised bed constructed, the bat houses mounted, the excessive cattails removed from the bog, and lots of weeds removed from the flower beds in the front of the building and the back by the Frog Bog. The frogs, dragonflies, and butterflies were certainly enjoying themselves. It will be great to get back outside when the ground isn't so soggy. I'll see you out there.