Archive for August, 2009

Paper Recycling!

Hello FDR Students, Teachers, and Staff, One of the Green Team’s goals for our Thematic Year “Think Green – Act Green” is to establish a campus-wide recycling program.  Tuesday we’re taking our first step by beginning our campus-wide paper recycling!  You’ll see big gray and blue recycling bins set up at the following locations:  - [...]

August 31, 2009 · geyzagui · One Comment
Posted in: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Moodle vs. Paper

Teachers in  Middle School are making an effort to reduce the amount of paper given to students by making material such handouts, study guides, rubrics and assignments available in digital form. Gaby Eyzaguirre

August 27, 2009 · geyzagui · No Comments
Posted in: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Are you recycling?

by Jennifer on October 28th, 2007 how long will it take to decompose… • Cotton rags 1-5 months • Paper-2-5 months • Newspaper 3-12 months • Rope- 3-14 months • Orange peels-6 months • Wool socks-1 to 5 years • Gum- 5 years • Cigarette butts-1 to 12 years • Plastic coated paper milk cartons-5 [...]

August 27, 2009 · geyzagui · No Comments
Posted in: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Paperless Open House in HS

Today we at High School’s Open House, parents had a glimpse at the commitment of teachers to the Thematic Year as teachers made their presentations and shared information about their classes without using handouts. Parents were received by teachers with PowerPoint presentations, Moodle classrooms and digital documents.  Way to go High School teachers! Gaby Eyzaguirre [...]

August 26, 2009 · geyzagui · No Comments
Posted in: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Printing @ FDR

Did you know that since we came back to school on July 30, FDR has printed over 60,000 pages?  If we organize the data by students it would be: HS students printed 4,177 pages , MS students printed 1,114 pages, Elementary students printed 291 pages.  Adults at school printed 55,920 pages. Data provided by the [...]

August 26, 2009 · geyzagui · No Comments
Posted in: Connections to our Facilities, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Recycling

Report from Jorge Villavicencio our Buildings Manager PAPER:  Today our school is signing an agreement with Fundades – (NGO with Kimberly and Clark who work to benefit handicapped children).  They will send 20 big boxes to use for collection around school and 2 big boxes will be kept behind MS.  They will collect them once [...]

August 25, 2009 · geyzagui · No Comments
Posted in: Connections to our Facilities, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Our Garden

The garden was successfully expanded this Saturday during the PTA open house. We we had students and parents as well as the gardeners working with us on this project. The after school gardening club kicked off last week with four new members we are expecting more this Tuesday as the elementary students join us. Additionally [...]

August 24, 2009 · geyzagui · No Comments
Posted in: Gardening/Composting