Recycling Introduction

What Are We Learning This Week?

We need to keep Earth clean so all people and animals have a healthy place to live.

This Week’s Big Questions

What do you recycle at home or at school?

Fun at Home

Look around your kitchen and find boxes of food, cans, and bottles that can be recycled. Can we recycle an empty milk carton? How do you know?

Show Me! Our Words of the Week

Say It:
Earth

Explain It:
Earth is the planet on which people and animals live. We live on planet Earth.

Talk About It:
Why do we need to take care of our planet Earth?

Say It:
Leftovers

Explain It:
Leftovers are the foods that are left when you are done eating.

Talk About It:
What can we do with our leftover food instead of throwing it in the garbage?

Say It:
Recycle

Explain It:
To recycle is to put used things through a special process so they can be used again.

Talk About It:
What kinds of things can you recycle?