Beautifying our School

Milne 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)

1. Groups of 4 –to-6 students can enter.
2. Submit your design drawn on graph paper to Miss Reinsalu (309), with your name(s) and home rooms.
3. Slogans allowed but please limit your word use.
4. The design should fit the bathroom stall properly.
5. Indicate which contest you’re going for (e.g. gr.6 can only enter for grade six team or group of friends)
6. 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)

Painting will start in May. Please see the Green Team’s bathroom door on the grade 7 floor for an example.

For ideas see our Green Team blog at http://greenteamofmv.blogspot.com.

Earth Hour and TDSB - Milne Valley info too

Milne Valley is registered for Earth hour - it's official!!


In response to a flurry of excited interest among both elementary and secondary students, the Toronto District School Board is happy to support the global Earth Hour campaign to raise environmental awareness. Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on climate change.

Why does it matter? Why participate? A TDSB Earth Hour awareness campaign is a simple and powerful way for students to take part, and perhaps even become environmental ambassadors in their communities. The Earth Hour campaign creates hope by giving everyone a glimpse of what can be accomplished if we work together!
PART 1: Friday, March 28, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. “Preparation for Earth Hour” Toronto District School Board – all schools and offices Since the official Earth Hour occurs outside of school hours (Saturday, March 29 between 8 and 9 p.m.), the TDSB will observe its own Earth Hour in a “warm up” or (“cool down!”) in preparation for Earth Hour. Every school or office will decide on its own plan – for one hour can your school or office manage without lights? ...photocopy machines? ...coffee makers?... computers?...? ...?


PART 2: For Earth Hour itself, March 29, 8:00-9:00 p.m. Friday night of the Earth Hour weekend, caretakers will be asked to shut off all interior lights except for emergency lighting, and turn off exterior lighting starting 8 p.m.(as long as there is consensus at the local level that it would be safe to do so and the caretakers are able to adjust the timers). In addition, computer monitors will automatically be put to sleep and fan use will be minimized.

ECO friendly Easter

Here are some ways to colour eggs using natural substances that you may already have around your home!


For pink and red colored eggs use cranberry juice, beets, or raspberries.

For yellow eggs use saffron or tumeric

For purple eggs use red wine.

For blue eggs use red cabbage leaves or blueberries.

For brown eggs use grape juice, rosehip tea, or coffee.

For orange eggs use yellow onion skins.

More go to the nature mom blog http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2008/03/06/eco-friendly-easter/

For baskets go to: http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/activity_15.html

Rocks and mineral identification

The Green team has been meeting to identify some rock and mineral samples for the Science dept.

FUN!

Here are some links to help us:

Identifying common rocks...
indentify rocks
Rock hounds
Rock hounds
Identifying rocks (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary)
about rocks
Igneous rocks
Volcano rocks

All about rock identification




Rocks for kids

MINERALS

A mineral is the same all the way through. That is one reason we speak of
a sample or a specimen rather than a rock.
There are about 3000 known minerals on earth.
All rocks are made up of 2 or more of these minerals.

Mineral town


from the earth...these rocks and minerals are pretty cool!

Green Team don't forget we have a meeting every Monday. Exept beacause of Family Day Ms.R
is trying to get a meeting on Tuesday.