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Earth Week and Green Field Day
Every year since 2011, Mount View Middle School has participated in Green Field Day, a unique day during Earth Week that was created and specially designed by students at Mount View to make the school more environmentally friendly and to celebrate the green initiatives of the school year. During Green Field Day this year, students at Mount View spent an hour participating in a volunteer activity of their choice, and afterwards, they spent another hour outside in eco-themed field games. To end the day with a BANG this year, the teachers got something special: if a student managed to correctly answer a trivia question, the teachers got a bucket of slime dumped on them!!
The activities of this year were all designed by our student committees ahead of time. This year's student committees were:
Scheduling: Divya Kapoor and Matt Leins
Green Games: Preeti Bairi, Katie Brown and Nishu Hosamane
Special Art Projects: Sophia Bi, Ashley Park, and Sydney Taft
Green Activities: Ethan Norman and Aditya Gupta
Green Spirit: Cassie Evans and Julia Ulmer
Green Trivia Hunt: John Kim and Kevin Padgett
A huge thanks to all these students for their contributions to Green Field Day this year!
Green Field Day was also organized and run by Mount View's Green CORE team:
Cassie Evans, Lily Kennedy, Hannah Shim, Kylie Albertsen, Nicholas Antonis-Ingram, Victoria Munro, Noah Nies, Lauren Offerman, Kayla Orcutt, Jaclyn Peffall, Megan Plummer, and Emily Suter
A final, big thanks to all of the parent volunteers for their help with the field games, too!
Just to give a taste of what we did on this day......
The activities of this year were all designed by our student committees ahead of time. This year's student committees were:
Scheduling: Divya Kapoor and Matt Leins
Green Games: Preeti Bairi, Katie Brown and Nishu Hosamane
Special Art Projects: Sophia Bi, Ashley Park, and Sydney Taft
Green Activities: Ethan Norman and Aditya Gupta
Green Spirit: Cassie Evans and Julia Ulmer
Green Trivia Hunt: John Kim and Kevin Padgett
A huge thanks to all these students for their contributions to Green Field Day this year!
Green Field Day was also organized and run by Mount View's Green CORE team:
Cassie Evans, Lily Kennedy, Hannah Shim, Kylie Albertsen, Nicholas Antonis-Ingram, Victoria Munro, Noah Nies, Lauren Offerman, Kayla Orcutt, Jaclyn Peffall, Megan Plummer, and Emily Suter
A final, big thanks to all of the parent volunteers for their help with the field games, too!
Just to give a taste of what we did on this day......
This year's Earth Week occurred on April 23rd-27th, 2012, and Green Field Day occurred on Friday, April 27th, 2012.
A lot of different activities occurred this year during Green Field Day, and all of them were very fun and interesting! Some of the new activities presented this year included:
- Making decorative quilts out of chip bags
- Creating coin purses
- Constructing brand-new benches in the front of the building
- Planting beautiful plants in a native plant garden, with flowers like the black-eyed susan and blue asters
- Enjoying an amazing musical performance by Ms. Brocklund of Marriotts Ridge
Have any creative ideas for Green Field Day next year? Email Ms. Mako about your idea: [email protected]. Or talk to Chance Campbell and Zaid Dar about your ideas. Chance and Zaid have been working hard to create new ideas for Green Field Day next year, so if you have any suggestions for them, drop by and offer a word or two!
HISTORY:
This event was created (and run!) by 5 Mount View students from the Advanced Inquiry and Innovation Class in the spring of 2011: Katie Berdy, Caroline Moore, Alex Hinkle, Katie Wardle, and Julia Fedor. Their goal was for Mount View students to take ownership of their school and lessen its impact on the planet. They also wanted students to get outside, be active, and have some fun. Two other students, Carly Caplan and Erika Wolfe, had already researched the idea of having a school carnival with games, so some of their ideas were used for the field games.