Rain Barrel

We need help getting a stand build for our rain barrel. We need to get it off the ground so that the children can get water from it without having to go from the top. Is there anyone that can help?

Nature Club

Today we went on a nature hunt...the children had fun exploring the nature areas around our campus. They were amazed at all the things they could find! For example the front of an old television. They worked together as a team to balance the board too....great job everyone!

Recycle-Bowl is a free competition and benchmarking tool for K-12 school recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities. School recycling programs across the nation compete in a race to collect the most recyclables.

Lake Carolina Lower collected 2398.5 lbs of recycling between October 19-November 15 2015!

Way to go!!!!!

Meet Recycling Ralph our Go Green Director.

He is encouraging our Gators to do more recyling from their lunches.

We can recycle muffin bags, capri suns, lunchable boxes, clean plastic containers and fresh fruits and veggies for compost.

 Nature Club

Our new shirts are awesome!!!!

All shirts have been ordered and your child should be getting theirs soon. We encourage your child to wear their club shirts on the day of our club and of course in the spring we will have club pictures. Any club shirt is considered a uniform shirt so feel free to wear it any day of the week.

T-shirt orders are due for both Nature Club and Recycling Club!!!

You can pay online or send in your cash or check to Susan Woodley Room 134.

Nature Club: 

https://www.customink.com/g/bkd0-00a9-y95u

Recycling Club:

https://www.customink.com/g/bkd0-00aa-qhaw

Recycling club working hard this morning!

I love how excited they are and they all looked great in their pink!

$100 cash prize to the most creative trash-to-treasure K-12 project!

Our school will be holding a contest for the top three best entries. The theme this year is animals and milk cartons. You can use the milk cartons from our cafeteria to create an animal. Selected students will be invited to participate in a regional contest Saturday November 14, 2015 at the SC SHARE FAIR hosted at Irmo HS.

Register to attend this great educational event for teachers and families at ShareFairNation.org

All projects are due by October 27^th, 2015 to Mrs. Susan Woodley

October 13th Nature Club Meeting

Wow, I can't believe all that we accomplished today! 

Today we:

• pulled weeds and tilled the soil in the garden boxes
• composted fruit from our cafeteria lunches
• created a second worm compost bin
• filled bird feeders
• moved picnic tables closer to our work space

Mrs. Woodley and Ms. Kramer would like to welcome the newest group of Nature Club gators!

Our Nature Club will focus on creating a school garden with fruits and vegetables, we will be collecting fruits and vegetables from the cafeteria to create compost for our garden both in a compost barrel and with worms, we collect rain in a rain barrel for our garden and we also care for our bird population by feeding them and tending to the school birdhouses.

If we have any parents who are handy with building, have a green thumb, or would like to help gather supplies please feel free to email Mrs. Woodley at swoodley@richland2.org.

Lake Carolina Elementary Lower Campus was the #1 Elementary School in Richland Two for the amount of recycling collected in the 2014-2015 school year !!!

 I am so proud of all of the hard work that everyone does in our school! 

I want to send a special shout out to Charlene Carroll who helped me last year with recycling club and Anna Basha has joined our team this year!!!!

Keep Recycling!!

Recycling Club is running great. We finished another successful run this morning and have overflowing Recycling Dumpsters!  I am so proud of all of our Recycling Gators. They have taken the initiative to help our school leave less of a footprint on the planet. I encourage you to continue to support our school recycling efforts and increase your effort at home to reduce, reuse and recycle.

For more information on home recycling please go to: http://recyclemoresc.org/

We will have our final recycling run on June 5, 2015.
All members need to report to the wavy bench at 7;30 for a special treat
and them we will make our final run for this year.

Nature Club Parents and Students I could not have done it without your support!

The Final Nature Club for the year will be 

May 28, 2015 

3:00-4:00

I will bring Ice Cream

If you would like to send anything else you can leave it at the kiosk or send it with your child.

I have really enjoyed my time with your children this year!!!

IMPORTANT DATES:

Nature Club will meet 2 more times on May 21, 2015 and May 28, 2015.
We will have our end of the year celebration on May 28th at 3:00 pm.

Recycling Club will meet every Friday until school is out.
Our end of the year celebration will be Friday June 5th at 7:30 am.

No Nature Club May 14th

Hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break!  

Just a reminder that we will have 

Nature Club Thursday April 9, 2015

Recycling Club April 10, 2015 

http://www.carolinachildrensgarden.org/




http://www.scgardenlearning.com/


Visit these sites to learn more about gardens and gardening right here in Columbia.

We had two great guests this week for our clubs!


Nature Club met Ms. Slither and Recycling Club saw how we reuse what we recycle! 

I am so proud of my students they were fantastic for both speakers!

Nature Club Thursday March 12, 2015 3:00 pm-4:00 pm

Recycling Club Friday March 13, 2015 7:30 am-8:00 am

School Recycling Video Contest

March is the month for making a short, fun video or slide show of your recycling team in action. Be sure your team is demonstrating correct practices in your video:

For paper:

• Flatten clean cardboard boxes (pizza boxes can be wiped out and recycled)
• Dump mixed paper in loose
• Dump empty, open milk cartons in loose
• Bag shredded paper in clear plastic bags (don’t over fill)
• Avoid tissue paper and food waste

For bottles and cans:

• Bag bottles and cans in sturdy plastic bags (don’t overfill)
• Empty and reattach lids to plastic bottles
• Rinse food containers
• Avoid styrofoam, plastic cups and anything that is not a container that came with a lid

*** Recycle Club Members Please Arrive to Recycling Next Thursday March 12th in your Recycling Club shirts ready to show off your recycling knowledge.

Our Guest Speaker for Recycling Club will not be able to come tomorrow. 
She is rescheduling for next Friday.

• Recycling Club will meet Thursday March 5, 2015 at 7:30 to do a recycling run.
• Recycling Club will meet Friday March 6, 2015 at 7:30 in Room 110 for our guest speaker.

Nature Club will be canceled if it is raining tomorrow

A fellow teacher shared this information with me and I would like to share it with you!

It's that time of year! The nest cams are coming online and soon we'll be able to watch live feed of baby birds from around the US.  This nest is in Decorah, Iowa and is located near the Iowa Fish Hatchery.  You can view live feed from the cam here:

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Read more about the Decorah eagles and the eaglets hatched in this nest site here:

http://www.thedecoraheagles.com/decorah-eagle-info.html

WARNING:  Once the eggs hatch the feeding times can be a bit graphic! 

Thank you Susan McCarthy for Sharing!!

• Recycling Club will run Thursday this week, please have your bins out and ready to be picked up that morning.
• Recycling Club will meet Friday Morning for a special guest speaker 7:30-8:00.

Finally, we still need your red recycling bin if you would like to donate it to our club. We are doing such a good job recycling at our school we could use the extra bins. 

Recycling Club will have a guest speaker March 6, 2015 7:30-8:10

Nature Club will have a guest speaker March 12, 2015 3:00-4:00

Keep up the good work recycling at LCE Lower Campus.

Tomorrow's temperatures are going to be too cold for nature adventures. I am hoping for warmer weather soon. I MISS my kiddos!!!

We are still in need of your old red recycling bins. If you bring them please drop them off at the wavy bench. Thank you to everyone who has already brought theirs in. We are putting them to good use!!

There will be no Nature Club or Recycling Club on February 12th or 13th due to Early Release day and Teacher Workday. 

Recycling Club Please arrive at 7:30 on Friday we have a large recycling day!!!

No Nature Club Thursday February 5, 2015

Club Pictures are Wednesday February 4, 2015. Please be ready with your club shirt at 7:45.