05/07/08 Kindergarten teacher Kristy Mahar and students at The Albany Academies celebrated Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, by planting a magnolia tree on the school’s front lawn.
Albany Academy children collect cans to plant a tree What do you do with $300 worth of used cans and bottles? If you’re a kindergartener at The Albany Academies, you use them to buy a tree.
As part of an annual program set up by kindergarten teacher Kristy Mahar, students at The Albany Academies were able to plant a magnolia tree on the front lawn of the school’s grounds in celebration of Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, after collecting, as a class, an assortment of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles to be recycled.
According to 6-year-old Christian Abdo, “I’m not sure how many cans we got but I know we got a lot of cans.”
Abdo said that his favorite part of the experience was when the class told everybody how much money they had earned for the tree.
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