By Maggie Chilton | Off-Site Program Coordinator
Earth Keepers is up and running again! We have been able to accomplish a lot so far with our students. We have many new faces at each school and will be getting to meet more students in the spring semester. We are officially opening Earth Keepers to students at New Hope Elementary and at A.L. Stanback Middle School starting in February! Thanks to your help we are able to expand the program to a new public school system. We visited New Hope Elementary for a ‘Family Fun Night’ event and received great feedback from families.
With the expansion, your support becomes even more vital. We want to provide scholarships but also need your help to print flyers and buy more supplies to use during programming. Here is what we have been doing at our current schools and would like to carry to Orange county:
Setting the stage for our program is very important, especially with new faces. Piedmont Wildlife Center is all about awareness, something we can continue to work on our entire lives. With our core routine awareness exercises we can teach how to practice and hone those skills. For example, when practicing with Deer Ears we hold our hands up to our ears and move them like the deer. We can practice pinpointing our listening ability and target sounds near and far to gather information about our surroundings. Try this exercise outside, with your eyes closed and try to detect the furthest sound possible. What direction is it coming from and what is making it?
This week at Southwest Elementary we will be focusing on trees! With recent rains, we are likely to find mud and will make tree spirit faces. After getting to know the trees we will use guidebooks to find out what they are. Forest View Elementary plans to continue looking at the world through the mindset of birds by working on their GIANT bird nest in their little strip of woods.
And lastly, because of your continued contributions and grants, we are working with 100 students at Carrboro Elementary! We are working with them on stealth skills through games and structure building.
Thank you so much for your belief in what we do! You are truly making a difference.
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