Compost and Recycling at MS447

I know it's been a really long time since I've blogged, but I've been working hard this Winter and now am ready for Spring!

Coquille and I joined the Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Master Compost Program.   I've scheduled a worm composting workshop put on by BBG at my school.  It's from 4-6pm at my school in downtown Brooklyn at 345 Dean Street on Tuesday, April 29th (it's the Tuesday after Spring Break).

I also received a $1,000 grant from Park Slope Civic Council to help start the recycling program at my school.  I attached the plan that I came up with here too.  It still isn't finalized and there is the overwhelming issues of collection and storage that I still can't quite figure out since my custodian shot down these ideas and other that they suggested where again not quite right.  I might turn out that each time the paper is full in the classrooms the teacher or a student or even parent volunteer will have to take the bag out side to a storage site out of the building.  It's kind of a drag, but I can't think of another way right now and I really hope people will be on board to do that.  We'll begin with paper recycling in the classroom with the first $1,000.  I also wrote a grant to donorschoose.org for the rest of the money to do bottles and cans in the cafeterias and main office:  http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=170652

Anyway, that's the news on compost and recycling at my school.  Let me know what you've been up to this Winter?  Email me at mathjosi@yahoo.com if you want to come to the worm workshop or if you want to talk grants and school recycling ideas.