5 Days For Freedom begins!

What a busy day!

Yuck!

Today we kicked off the 5 Days For Freedom awareness campaign with an assembly, where our class sang "All I Really Need". We did an amazing job! We also explored "Freedom From Thirst" by watching a video and by doing an activity with a jar of water and a story about a small village that grew, and with that growth came all kinds of pollution, land erosion and so on. Each time a change occurred in the village, we added something to the jar. As you can see, the clean jar of water was really gross by the time the story ended! It taught us that humans leave a huge footprint of pollution and that we are also the ones who can help solve the problem.

We also learned that it is mostly women and children who go to get water for their families in many parts of the world. Some walk as much as 15 km each day to get water. We are SO fortunate to have such easy access to water in our community.

We tracked our water footprint in school today, too. We each got a paper droplet of water to record how many times we used water, and at the end of the day, we tallied our class usage. We had 170 uses of water today as a class.

We also met with Room 188 in our Buddy Reading time to receive a certificate and picture from the Central Asia Institute for our contribution to Pennies For Peace. We are all really proud of ourselves and know that kids CAN make a difference! Thanks again to all families who helped us in our penny drive to make this such a success!