Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

 Final Family Projects

Below are slides for five projects that families can do together.  Each of the projects deals with a different way to care for God's creation.  We invite you to choose one project to work on before our next zoom session on November 8.  Do the activities suggested on the project slide you choose and show us a poster, slides or give a short talk (1 paragraph) about your project at our next zoom session.    For students in grades 1-5 we suggest looking at Project 1 and 5 - but you are free to choose any.  Also we encourage parents, older students and younger students to work together on their presentation.  

Lesson Review

We began our lesson by praying together:

Good and Gracious God,

May our minds be open to learning and the wonder of discovery.  Be with us all today as we learn more about the world you created and what we can do to be good caretakers of this gift you gave to us. Amen.

Then we read a Bible Story together - The Parable of the Fig Tree ( Luke 13:6-9)

Questions:

• Who was the good creation caretaker in the story?

• Are there sometimes when you or your family members get rid of things because you can't use them right now?

Next we read a story about a Grandma who was a wise caretaker. You can read the story here:

Grandma's Sweater Story

How was this Grandma a good caretaker of creation?

Pope Francis talks about 

why we should reduce, reuse and recycle.

He says:

 "Our throw-away culture uses things just one and then discards them.  We need to limit the use of non-renewable resources and when we do use them, make sure that we reuse and recycle them."

"Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it...can be an act of love."

We practiced being good caretakers of our earth by using less paper towels - and saving lots of trees!  Be sure to practice this!

Finally we talked about the projects we can do and share with each other.  See the slides at the top of this blog post.