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A great way to save GREEN is to utilize the Somerset Public Library museum passes to check out some great LOCAL finds! In New Bedford is the Ocean Explorium and its a great little place to enjoy some much needed A/C and see some great things!

A newly installed shark/sting-ray touch tank is great for all! A little touch tank that has some great creatures in it greets you as you enter the small yet informative museum. My kids especially enjoyed the spherical “movie” as well as the Discovery room where parents can take a much needed A/C rest and enjoy watching their kids explore with puppets, science stuff, or read! The exhibits are great and parking is curbside for 2 hrs payable with quarters or $1/hr in a local nearby lot. Check it out!

If you are a North student then you should have received an Earth Day Packet as well as a great 100% recycled newspaper pencil this week! Remember to come up with your “Great Green Idea?” entry for the contest! It can be something you want to do for Earth day, an idea for the future, an idea for now. What idea can you come up with that will help us become Greener at North Elementary? Or Greener in the town of Somerset?

There will be a GREAT GREEN PRIZE awarded to the winners!

Entries are due Monday April 25th. We will collect them until Wednesday April 27th! Winners to be announced Friday April 29th!

North Students will be receiving an Earth Day packet along with a 100% recycled newspaper pencil this week! Packets were dropped off at school today and teachers will be passing them out to their students on Friday of this week.

Earth day is celebrated annually on Friday April 22nd. This year we have a great contest for the kids. The last page of this packet has a “What’s your Great Green Idea” contest sheet. Students should draw their “Great Green Idea” and on the back of the page write a few sentences about it. Students should return their contest entries to their teacher on Monday April 25th. We will collect entries until Wednesday April 27th. Winners will be announced on Friday April 29th. There will be one winner per grade and each winner will receive a “GREAT GREEN PRIZE!”

Happy Earth Day everyone! To learn more about earth day click here: Earth Day 2011

Reading night is a great event at North Elementary every year! It’s also a GREEN event! It allows students to reuse their books and reduce their impact on the environment. Children get to swap books- their old ones for “new” ones for them to read. For every book you bring you can take another gently used book. Don’t throw those old books away- bring them to Reading Night- April 14th 6-8-pm at North and recycle your gently used books!

Health Teacher, Renee Matos, and the “North Planet Savers”, a student ecology group, have decided to work on making jewelry out of paper. Their jewelry will be for sale at the Family Dance on March 25th . Proceeds from the sales would be used to help victims of the Gulf Oil Spill.  We thank Ms. Matos and her students for such a great GREEN idea!