Friday, April 9, 2010

Easter day celebration on 5th April 2010

Environmental Awareness
The children enjoyed indoor and outdoor games and activities.

Will we ever find eggs in the lawn?
Egg party is a good way to give back to the environment on a sunny day and recycle the crumbled egg shells into the garden. This fun activity allows children to get dirty while the family bonds together to make a difference for the environment. The egg shells are excellent for compost in garden soil due to the nutrients they possess, such as calcium.
Hopping like a rabbit!
The Easter bunny or rabbit comes from the hare, another ancient, pre-Christian symbol of fertility associated with spring. Anglo-Saxon mythology says Eostara changed her pet bird into a rabbit to entertain a group of children, and the rabbit laid brightly coloured eggs for them???

Alarming facts about our environment

Did you know?
1.Up to 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion!) plastic bags are used worldwide each year.
2.Plastic bags and other plastic waste thrown into the ocean kill up to one million sea creatures every year, according to Environment California.
3.A plastic bottle takes approx. 450 - 1000 years to decompose
4.Each vegetarian saves one acre of trees every year.
5.A dripping tap can waste about 13 litres of water a day.
6.Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees and 3000 gallons of water.
7.Recycling one aluminium can save enough energy to run your TV for three hours.
8.Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
9.In 2008, Singapore produced 2.63 million tonnes of incinerable solid waste, which is enough to fill 890 football fields to the height of an average person! - according to National Environment Agency Singapore.
10.According to recent studies, 70% of the world's marine species are at risk of extinction.
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101. Out of 100 people who have read this, only 1 take serious action or change their daily habits towards saving the environment.
ARE YOU ONE OF THEM ?