Thursday, April 10, 2008

Green Team activities for Earth Day

Earth Day activities for the Green team:

Fundraising: "Be sweet to the Earth"
Green team selling treats to build a future fund for Green team activities.
Yummy cookies, fruity freeze drinks and more....

Green team clean-up
Help the school stay clean. Minimize your waste AND be part of the Earth Day (April 22) lunch-time clean-up.

Book sale:
Donated books for a loonie or a twoonie.

Bathroom contest deadline too!



Note: primary colours and mixing paint (the contest has been revised a bit).

M ilne Valley Middle School Green Team Contest

Hey, Milne Valley! Are you bored with our school washrooms? Do you want to beautify the environment? Then enter the Green Team Washroom Stall Challenge!

The Green Team is having a contest, where YOU get to paint a bathroom stall! There are going to be 4 winners:

1 grade 6 team

1 grade 7 team

1 grade 8 team

1 group of friends

The prize?????

YOU will be remembered at this school for your artistic talents, and your creative ideas forever (plus you get a prize pack).


The Rules (design brief)


Groups of 4 –to-6 students can enter.

Submit your design drawn on graph paper to Miss Reinsalu (309), with your name(s) and home rooms.

Slogans allowed but please limit your word use.

The design should fit the bathroom stall properly.

Indicate which contest you’re going for (e.g. gr.6 can only enter for grade six team or group of friends)

Deadline: Designs must be submitted by Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 3:09 pm.

How do you win??

Green Team members will choose the winning design.

You get to choose whether you will paint the door or the green team. If green team will paint you must include colour coding for your design (e.g. for a sun-the exact shade of yellow)

We are trying to not waste resources so we are mixing acrylic paints from primary colours.


Be creative! Have fun!


Painting will start in May.
The Green team have all ready started on a door of their own in the Grade 7 girls bathroom.






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Green Team of MV activities April and May 2008