How To & Poetry

How to Make your School into a Recycling Success:

Supplies Needed:
· Eight new plastic trash bins.
· Bright green construction paper.
· Arts and crafts supplies: (tape, glue, scissors, etc.)
· Large and visible labels (best to use 8 ½ by 11 piece of computer paper)
· A group of fellow classmates (about eight students would be enough.)

1.) First, cut out eight recycle symbols using the bright green construction paper. EX:
2.) Second, take a piece of computer paper to make your labels. You will need to have three labels titled PAPER, two labels titled PLASTICS, another two labels titled CANS, and one container titled ELECTRONICS.
3.) Third, each student involved is to decorate their own trash bin with the recycling symbol and the proper label.
4.) Next, place the trash bins at any entrances or exits to the school or main meeting places such as the cafeteria, gym, etc.
5.) Once the bins have been created and put in different areas, place used paper, plastics, can goods, or electronic materials in the proper container where they belong.
6.) SPREAD THE WORD! Continue to tell your fellow classmates and peers about the importance of recycling and get them involved.

Poetry:

My Beard

My beard grows down to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
And down the road I goes.

By: Shel Silverstein

This poem has great imagery. Using this poem in the class room would be a great opportunity to see how vivid and lifelike the poem comes to life. A great example of how to test and explain imagery to the students would be to have the students read the poem aloud or even read it to them. Next have the students draw a picture of what they imagine this beard and person would look like. Once they have created their own pictures they can even compare it to the one by Shel Silverstein. Lastly, it would be essential to explain the imagery component to the students by telling them that a paper, poem, or letter can be so descriptive but not too overcrowded with words that it can cause the reader to picture or imagine what the character or situation looks like.