FOR EARTH DAY, AMERICA CLEANS UP ITS ACT.I would like to clean up things that are pulluted. I am helping at home by recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. my toys, cans, and paper. I also recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. bottles and paint cans. It is very good to save the Earth. I would like it if everyone would pitch in to clean up the Earth. I love the Earth. I love the whole Earth. - Jean Dorothy Han, 8 Annunciation Annunciation dove and lily pictured with Virgin and Gabriel. [Christian Iconography: Brewer Dictionary, 645] Elizabeth Mary’s old cousin; bears John the Baptist. [N.T. School Arcadia When I think of taking care of the earth, I don't just think, I do it. First I plant trees so there won't be so much disgusting pollution in the world. Next I do not waste paper because every time I do that I kill a tree. The third thing is I pick up trash when I go down the street so my world and my life will be much happier. That's what Earth Day's all about - caring for our earth. - Dannielle Springfield, 8 Canoga Park School Canoga Park For Earthday I would gather some people to clean up the city. We could paint over the graffiti graffiti Form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Technically the term applies to designs scratched through a layer of paint or plaster, but its meaning has been extended to other markings. . Picking up broken glass would keep cars from getting flat tires. The Earth would be happy for what we have done. - Tony Tafazzoli, 9 Chatsworth Park School Chatsworth On Earth Day I will look out my window and see if the street is dirty. If the street is dirty I will go and clean it up. Then I will separate the stuff and recycle it. Because if we don't recycle on Earth Day the Earth will be dirty. Throwing trash on the street is called littering. - Daniel Moreno, 9 Danube Avenue School Granada Hills I help save the Earth by recycling cans, bottles, glass and plastic. When I have a piece of paper that I didn't write or draw on, I cut the clear part off and save it for something else. I take short showers, too. I don't leave the water running when I'm brushing my teeth. That is how I help the Earth. - Nina Braynina, 10 Emelita Street School Tarzana I would help my environment by cleaning the ocean because there are not only people living on the earth - there are animals and they need to brethe the air, too! - Liz Corbett, 11 Glenfeliz Boulevard School Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. I would like to pick up trash, and recycle. I would get lots of my friends and we would clean the beach. We would all recycle bottles, cans, and newspaper. We would go door to door asking for bottles, cans, and newspaper with my mom. - Lauren Ashwill, 9 Granada Hills School Granada Hills If I could help the environment I would grow trees, and use carpools more often. I would not pollute pol·lute v. 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter; contaminate. 2. To make less suitable for an activity, especially by the introduction of unwanted factors. the ocean because it would kill the fish and people could not swim. - Edward Romero, 6 Haskell Elementary School elementary school: see school. Granada Hills On Earth Day I would clean my room. - Madina Chowdhury, 9 Monlux Magnet School magnet school n. A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community. North Hollywood I'll save the Earth by cleaning the parks and the streets but I will start by helping my mom and other people first. I will help save the Earth by recycling cans, newspaper, boxes, and bottles. - Anna Coreas, 9 Oxnard Street School North Hollywood I think people (kids or adults) should help the invironment because if we don't, what will this world become? Helping the earth is important and also fun. That is why I like helping the earth. - Lisa Rav RAV Rous-associated virus. RAV abbr. Rous-associated virus , 10 St. Bernardine's of Siena School Woodland Hills On Earth Day I would like to pick up all the garbage garbage: see solid waste. I see and put it in the trash. I'm going to go around with a garbage can and pick up all the trash I see. It makes me proud when I do a good deed. - Jana Wayne, 9 Turningpoint School Los Angeles I would save the environment by getting a big group of people who want to help clean the trash and bottles. We will take them to the recycling bin. We will go as a group cleaning all around the world. We try to get more kids to join in our club. Its really fun to clean the earth. That's how I will help save the earth. and I will clean parks. - Shanna Cordobes, 10 Vena Avenue School Arleta Earth Day is very important to my family and me. We recycle alot of stuff. Every day when I get home from school, I help clean up the front and back yards. I like Earth Day very much. I make it Earth Day every day. - Carolina Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , 7 Vinedale Elementary School Sun Valley SOURCE: - Compiled by Barbara Wood Barbara Wood (b. June 30, 1947 in Lancashire, England) is an American writer of historical -romance novels. Biography Barbara Wood was born June 30, 1947 in Lancashire, England. Her family moved to California where she grew up. MEMO: NEXT WEEK: If you could live in a different period of time (such as the pioneer, Revolutionary War, prehistoric pre·his·tor·ic also pre·his·tor·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or belonging to the era before recorded history. 2. Of or relating to a language before it is first recorded in writing. or Elizabethan eras), when would that be and why? Draw a picture of something going on during that era. Parents and teachers should make sure that the student's name, address, age and school are CLEARLY PRINTED on the letters and the backs of drawings. Pictures should be drawn using black or dark blue ink or dark pencil on white, unlined paper. Drawings must be no larger than a standard, 8-1/2-by-11-inch sheet of paper. The deadline is April 15, and letters will be printed on April 23. Letters received after the deadline cannot be considered. Send entries to Kids' Corner, Daily News Features Department, P.O. Box 4200, Woodland Hills, Calif. 91365-4200. Contributors whose letters or drawings are selected will receive a Daily News T-shirt. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1) Kimberly Stover stover stalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. , 7, of Vintage Magnet Schoolin North Hills would clean the ocean to aid its inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . (2) Oscar Andrade, 10, of Glenfeliz Boulevard School in Los Angeles wants to help the environment by recycling glass, paper and cans. (3) Marion C. Sistena, 9, Oxnard Street School in North Hollywood believes it's important to conserve the Earth's resources. (4) ``If everyone would help just a little, the world world be beautiful,'' wrote Ashley Villalobos, 11, of Chatsworth Park Elementary School. |
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