Have you heard about Earth Overshoot Day? It is the day on the calendar when humanity has used the resources that it takes the planet the full year to regenerate. Earth Overshoot Day has moved from late September in 2000 to August 2 in 2017. On August 2, 2017, we used up the amount of resources that it takes the planet a year to replenish. We used up in seven months what it will take twelve months to replace. Under a business-as-usual path, human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems is projected to exceed what nature can regenerate by about 75 percent by 2020. We must begin to make ecological limits central to our decision-making and use human ingenuity to find new ways to live well, within the Earth’s bounds.
- Please return library books by next Thursday for exchange.
- May's Family Project (flower) is due today, or when you have finished with it.
- Monday, May 7 we will be participating in a golf lesson during gym time.
- Please note that we will be inviting our moms to our classroom from 8:30-9:00 the morning of Friday, May 11 for a wee Mother's Day celebration.
- Friday, May 11 there will be a substitute teacher and it is Fresh Air Friday as well. Please dress your child for an afternoon at the river.
- Don't forget to send us any small, broken appliances you might have lying around for our June FAF activities.
- Yearbook sales are drawing to a close. This is your last chance to pick up a book, so if you haven't put in your order please do so ASAP in the main office ($20 paid in advance).
- The Big Little Science Centre runs summer camps. Info can be found here.
- The BEST May newsletter can be found here.
- May sight words are: are, her, him, how, out, play, this, when, your. Please feel free to practice them at home.
