Students at the May Moore Primary School in Deer Park commemorated Earth Day on April 21 with a school-wide celebration that took place throughout the day. Students engaged in activities that demonstrated how living things are both similar and different from each other and non-living things and how individual choices and societal actions can contribute to improving the environment through stories, participatory songs, art, nature observation and book and poetry reading.

In an effort to remind students of the importance of protecting our environment and recycling, Waldbaum’s donated 500 brown paper grocery bags to the school. The children then decorated the bags with messages and illustrations about keeping the environment clean and returned them to Waldbaum’s to remind consumers to do their part in saving the earth’s resources.

The children were also treated to special workshops and performances by the Grumbling Gryphons, a traveling children’s theater whose performers use masks, costumes, puppets and music to enthrall their audience with their interactive plays. As part of their workshops, the students created sea creature costumes that they wore during performances of The Ghost Net: An Environmental Musical of the Sea.

Pictured are children from May Moore Primary School watching a musical performance about the sea during their school’s Earth Day celebration.

Shown are students from Mrs. Garcett’s second grade class displaying their decorated brown paper grocery bags which depict messages about protecting our environment.