LRC Newsletter 7 - ABC Learning Resources Centre

Learning at the LRC
Issue 7: April 2009
National Reading & Earth
Week Special Edition
The students and staff of the ABC
celebrated Earth Week in a big way. During
the week teachers ran a series of
workshops aimed at helping our students
to better understand the importance of
taking care of our Earth. The workshops
offered were: Working Out Carbon
Footprints, Creating Garbage Book
Covers, Creating an Earth Week Display in
the LRC, Making Recycled Paper, Creating
Plastic Bottle Eco-blocks and Planting a
Tree on the LRC Lawn. Students from
various grades participated in the activities.
Carbon Footprint:
Work out
your
carbon
footprint at
Carbon
Control.
Letʼs Make Our
Own Building
Materials!
Plastic bottle ecoblocks are an
efficient solution
for reusing plastic
non-biodegradable trash, to create low cost/high
quality construction materials. On Thursday April
23rd the students of the ABC got to create their very
own eco-blocks on the steps outside the LRC.
Making Recycled Paper
On Thursday 23rd of April, Staff
members guided students
through the process of making
recycled paper. The kids asked
for an encore the following week
in the hopes of making a recycled
paper mural.
Planting a Tree by the
LRC
Garbage Book
Covers
With the help of the
Art Department,
students learned
how to reuse
different materials to
make interesting
covers for their
books and boxes.
Creating
Displays
The Library staff
put together
several displays to
mark the occasion.
On Friday the 24th of April,
the students and Headmaster
planted a new tree on the
lawn in front of the LRC. This
tree replaces a majestic
Pepeto tree that once stood
on the site.
National Reading Week
This same week El Salvador
Celebrated National Reading
Week. The focus this year was
on two prominent Salvadoran
authors, Claudia Lars and
Salvador Salazar Salarrue.
During this time, celebrations
and activities took place all over
the country. The ABC did its part
by creating a display highlighting
the authors, and promoting their works
within the library and lessons.
Check some of their work online!
Cuentos de Barro by Salvador
Salarrue
Cuentos de Cipotes by Salvador
Salarrue
Selected pieces by Claudia Lars
Check out are videos and photo galleries at http://learningresourcescentre.pbwiki.com/Earth-Week