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Students build bird feeders and help save environment
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students made bird feeders by using pinecones and adding Crisco and bird seed. The students would take home their beed feeders to hang on a tree or bush.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students from Miss. Baron's and Mrs. Wittenauer's class stood at the table to make their bird feeders. The first step was to cover the pinecone in Crisco so the bird seed would stick.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.The students rolled their pinecones in birdseed until they were covered. When the students finished, they wrapped their birdfeeders in wax paper and put them in a bag until they got home.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Peggy Flynn, of the Green Team, read "Stranger in the Woods" to two of the classes of Poland North on Jan. 11. Flynn visited the school to educate the students on keeping the environment clean.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
Poland North Preschool invited Peg Flynn from the Green Team to the school on Jan. 11. Flynn combined fun with learning to teach the students about recycling and making the Earth a clean place.
Two classes entered the gym for a book and activity that Flynn had planned out. The students sat on the floor and listened to Flynn talk about how recycling is beneficial to the planet. After giving a speech about recycling, Flynn read the book “Stranger in the Woods” by Carl Sams.
The book was about a snowman that a couple of children built and the animals in the woods that wanted to go up to the snowman, which they thought was a stranger, to see who he was. The animals had different reactions to the mysterious object that appeared after a winter storm.
When Flynn finished reading the book, she told the students they would make bird feeders out of pinecones, Crisco and bird seed.
The students would be able to take the bird feeders home and put them outside for the birds. When the bird seed was gone, the students could reuse the pinecone to make another one. All the students would need to do is add peanut butter or Crisco and bird seed back on the pinecone.
“My co-worker and I go to schools in Mahoning County. I do the suburban area and she does the rural area. We go to any school that calls us,” said Flynn.
The Green Team is eager to go to schools and teach the students and teachers about recycling and how to keep the land clean.
Flynn said they read a different book to the schools each month and have different activities for the students to participate it, but the bird feeders are a common one that everyone enjoys.
“The reason we do bird feeders is because when you recycle, you quit destroying the land and the home for the birds. For every ton of paper you recycle, you are saving 17 trees,” said Flynn.