April is celebrated as Earth Month worldwide – where we reflect on how our daily choices make an impact on our communities and environment, and how we can do better to care for the planet.
Our Hosp community has always been very supportive and active on these initiatives, and the Hosp PTA Environmental committee is happy to bring multiple activities for our kids to participate in April!
Activity # 1: Earth Month Bingo
- Kids play the Bingo game (K-2 Bingo; 3-5 Bingo) depending on their Grade Level and score points
- All completed activities need to be signed by parents
- Repeating activity OR doing multiple activities in Same category gets you more points
- Activities can be done throughout April – but if any done in March that can count too
- Submit the completed Bingos to Front Office by April 30
- Fun Prizes for highest scorers in each Grade level!
Activity # 2: Videos for Kindness TV on Earth Month Topics
Hosp Kindness TV is supporting Earth Month by showing students’ videos in morning announcements!
To participate: Please record 30 to 60 seconds video of your students talking about below topics:
- How they make good choice for our planet : Kids can talk about How/what they Recycle; How they save water or save Electricity; Do they volunteer to clean up streets; Using Reusable Water bottles; Using Less Plastic; Using Café Recycle Bins correctly
- Share a (Fun) Fact : Students can share few facts about – A National Park, A Mountain or River, An Endangered Species, Clean Energy
- Share an Experience : Kids can share an outdoor experience and why they loved it : Camping, State Park Hike, Fruit picking, Volunteer for CleanUp, Helping out in Garden.
Please have kids say their Names & Grade/Class – and send the videos to environmental@hosppta.org
Note that we will need at least one week's time to approve and queue the video for Kindness TV – so please send those within the first 2 weeks of April. Videos will be accepted through April 22, however, we will be able to accommodate only a few as we near the end of the month.
If you would like for your student videos also to be shared via Hosp PTA social media pages and website, please indicate that in your email when you submit the video. Thank you!
Activity # 3: Clean It & Green It
Hosp PTA is proud to join the City of Frisco once again to participate in the annual 'Clean-It-and-Green-It' event!
Please join us on Saturday, April 20th, from 9am to 10.30am for Hosp Campus CleanUp! We will make our school’s outside grounds and surrounding areas free of plastic/trash.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/krcdd2r7 and mention Team Name as ‘HOSP HELPERS’, and Team Leader email as environmental@hosppta.org
Early registrations receive a free t-shirt! Parents and Kids are welcome to join. Note that registration and waivers on the city website closes on Monday April 8.
Please feel free to reach out to envorinmental@hosppta.org for any questions about any of our Earth Day activities.
Let’s experience how our little champs make a big impact together!
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2023 Recycling Drive Update
Thank you to all the parents, staff and kiddos who were able to contribute towards our 'Plastic Bag Recycle' drive back in Oct'23. Our school collected over 40 lb of plastic bags to recycle and placed 6th in all FISD school campuses for this recycle drive. We surely made an impact!
Green Fact # 1 : In 2015 about 730,000 tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were generated - but more than 87% of those items were never recycled - winding up in landfills and the ocean!
Green Fact # 2 : Single Stream Recycling facilities do Not have an easy way to pull out plastic bags and recycle them! Bags end up jamming recycling machinery and causing delays in other recycling.
Green Fact # 3 : Last year Frisco ISD recycled over 63,000 bags during this one week!!
