SC Midlands Summit

We are presenting at the SC Midlands Summit sharing about our experiences with Project Based Learning, Recycling, and Technology this past year.  These are our slides for our presentation.

Earth Day

Recycling student leaders taught the entire school Earth Day lessons. They because the teachers for the day. Many classes participated in the Great American Clean Up too! It was an awesome day!

Recycling Video

Check out this video that highlights everything we did with recycling throughout the year.

 Sandlapper Elementary Recycling

Conservation Teacher of the Year!!!

Mrs. Scott was just named Richland Soil and Water District Conservation Teacher of the Year! We are excited she will be able to share all of the wonderful recycling initiatives happening at Sandlapper with others!

Recycling Plastic Grocery Bags with Trex

Sandlapper was able to recycle 191 pounds of plastic grocery bags. We came in 3rd in our region. We will receive a bird house made out of recycled plastic bags from Trex!

Shoes 4 Water Final Update

Sandlapper students and faculty collected shoes for 7 weeks! Our grand total was 2,146 pairs of shoes. These shoes will be "up cycled" to bring water systems to remote villages in Kenya through Shoes 4 Water. Sandlapper has inspired several other schools in Richland Two to create their own Shoes 4 Water campaign. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a district wide Shoes 4 Water competition next year???? Here are a few pictures from some of our incentive events we held throughout our collection!

Wii Bowling with a Teacher
Silly String Mr. Lyons
Pie in the Face: Mrs. May

Action for a Cleaner Tomorrow Presentation

Thank you Mary Margaret from DHEC for a great presentation! 

Got Plastic Grocery Bags?????

We are in a state wide competition for recycling plastic grocery bags! The competition will end next Friday, April 11th. Do you have any at home?  If so, send them to Sandlapper so we can recycle them with Trex recycling. Thanks so much!

Bring a pair of shoes and get FREE popcorn!

If you bring a pair of shoes to our Spring Fling tonight (5:00-7:30) , you get a coupon for a FREE popcorn! We have collect just over 1,300 pairs of shoes for our Shoes4Water campaign! Help us reach 2,000 by April 25th!

Shoes 4 Water Video Update

Shoes 4 Water Video Update

Recycling Infographic

We are over 1,000!!!!

Way to go Sandlapper! We have collected 1,077 pairs of shoes! We will continue to collect through April 25! For each pair donated, you can enter a drawing to wii bowl with a teacher or have lunch with Mr. Lyons! Keep bringing in shoes! We will have Popsicles for the entire school on April 25th and Mr. Lyons gets silly sting!!!!! 

Shoes 4 Water

Wow! We have already collect over 350 pairs of shoes in our first week! That is so exciting! Please continue to send in your new or gently used pairs of shoes! We will have the following rewards as we reach different levels of collection! Wouldn't it be awesome to double our original goal?!?!?!?!? We will collect shoes through April 25th! Stay tuned for pictures from our Team Jersey Day today!

50 Pairs: Starbuck and 5 extra minutes of recess
100 Pairs: Team Jersey Day  (March 10th)
200 Pairs: Crazy Hat/Sock Day  (March 14)
300 Pairs: Twin Day (March 17)
400 Pairs: Cut the Administrators Ties
500 Pairs: Silly String Mr. Lyons

Shoes 4 Water

The first day we collected 69 shoes! I can't wait to see what we are at today! Such awesome teamwork for a great cause! We will be collecting shoes until April 25!!!!

219 pounds for the personal care item recycling challenge!

Sandlapper was able to collect 219 pounds if personal care items for our recycling challenge! Congratulations to Mrs. Basquill's class for winning the pizza party! They collected 27 pounds as a class! Way to go! Thank you to everyone that brought in items! 

Recycling Lightbulbs

Our custodians do an outstanding job of recycling Lightbulbs!!!

Cans for Conservation

Don't forget to bring in cans to help conserve your favorite ecosystem!!!!

Check out some of the companies we recycle with!

We recycle cell phones, ink cartridges, and small electronics with Funding Factory. Each item we recycle helps earn money for our school!

Funding Factory

We recycle chip bags, lunchables, tape dispensers, glue sticks, writing utensils, and drink pouches with Terracycle! Many of the products we recycle during our monthly recycling challenges are shipped to Terracycle. All of these items help earn money for our school!

Terracycle

We recycle plastic grocery bags through Trex. Each month we send in our total pounds collected and then take the bags to a local collection site.

Trex

We recycle paper, cardboard, bottles, and cans with Sonoco Recycling. We have a yard container at the school and Sonoco collects our recycling weekly from this container.

Sonoco Recycling

We are so thankful for these business and their help with recycling at Sandlapper!

Personal Care Item Recycling Challenge Video

Check out this video to help you know what to recycle for the Personal Care Item Recycling Challenge! 

http://youtu.be/wCDNHugc55s

Cans for Conservation Project

The 4th grade Project Based Learning students are doing an amazing job with this project! They have researched the desert, polar, rainforest, swamps, and rivers and streams ecosystems! Students chose an ecosystem to focus on for their project. Students interviewed experts within their ecosystem by participating in conference calls and skyping!! It was awesome! Students are making public service announcements about their ecosystems to show on the morning show to persuade others in the school to bring cans in to recycle for their ecosystem. The ecosystem that collects the most cans will be able to donate the profits from recycling the cans to a conservation group in their ecosystem! Students are designing boxes to collect the cans. The boxes are decorated like their ecosystem!