How you can help| Earthtunes | Follow Our Progress | We're Winners
| Last year, 2006-2007 Blanchard School kicked off a paper recycling program at the school. The entire school participated in this yearlong project-based learning experience. Math, history, science and other subjects were integrated to engage kids in researching and solving real-world problems. Working in small groups, 6th graders did research about recycling and shared their findings with the younger grades and throughout the year, tracking data on how much paper was recycled through spreadsheets and graphs. | |||||
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Helped Last Year... By dropping off your recyclable paper including newspaper, magazines, shopping catalogs, office paper and junk mail (no cardboard please) at our retriever bin, you will help us fill it faster and increase our return. |
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| With the beginning of school, comes lots of supplies shipped in cardboard boxes. The gym was the collection point for all of this cardboard. Amazing how quickly it piles up! | |||||
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Thanks to the Boxborough DPW, we are able to recycle our cardboard through the local transfer station. On their first trip, they filled a one ton truck with cardboard! | ||||
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| The DPW will continue to collect our cardboard every week through the year ! We should be able to save lots of trash! | |||||
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Our new paper retriever recycling bin was delivered recently and is well on its way to being filled. Working with Abitibi Consolidated, a Canadian based paper company, we will be able to recycle all of our paper and raise money for the school in the process. |
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| Pepper, the Paper Retriever and Mr. Joe Valiante of Abitibi Consolidated, recently visited Blanchard to help kick off this school wide program. | |||||
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Sixth grade teams are hard at work collecting, weighing and bringing recyclable paper out to our dumpster. | ||||
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The Abitibi Collection truck has been making regular stops to empty our dumpster. |
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Barbara Herson and Steve Mayone brought Earthtunes to Blanchard. Earthtunes presents a musical program with a recycling and environmental theme. |
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Program included songs, dance, puppets and lots of audience participation. Thanks to the PTF for funding this program. |
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Blanchard was recently declared a winner in the "Schools On Goal" paper recycling contest run by Abitibi. During the months of January, February and March we recycled 21,880 pounds of paper. As of the end of March we have recycled almost 50,000 pounds of paper. Keep up the good work! |