The kitchen staff at Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School shares that each school day, Triadelphia Ridge students fill about 6 barrels of trash in the cafeteria. The fourth grade Enviro-Kids at Triadelphia Ridge, challenge all students to take the Waste-Free Challenge!
Students who bring lunches from home are challenged to reduce the amount of waste generated every Wednesday through the end of the school year. As student lunches are packed each Wednesday, they are encouraged to pack a waste-free lunch, using reusable containers for sandwiches, snacks, and drinks.
Remember this is a voluntary effort, but let's see how you can help to reduce lunch waste one day a week at Triadelphia Ridge Elementary.
Tessa Loazer, an Ambassador-level Girl Scout in the Glenelg area, is currently holding a book drive to help revamp the children's library at Sarah's House, a housing program for homeless families. Tessa is asking for the community's help in achieving her goal of helping Sarah's house and earning her Girl Scout Gold Star Award.
To help with her book collection efforts, a drop box has been placed in the Glenwood Middle School media center. You may donate new or gently used children's books through March 10. Tessa thanks the community in advance for their support.
The Folly Quarter Middle School Community Outreach Committee and Leo Club would like to express their appreciation to the students, families, and faculty of Folly Quarter Middle for supporting the school Giving Tree Program over the holidays.
With the help of the Folly Quarter community, they were able to adopt two families from Howard County and provide them with gifts, such as grocery and department store gift cards, clothing, winter coats, and toys. More than $500 in gift cards were collected. The Leo Club is currently conducting a Teens for Jeans drive. Look for other upcoming projects, to include the school's annual book drive and indoor yard sale.
As mentioned above, the Folly Quarter Middle School Leo Club is currently holding a Teens for Jeans drive. Did you know that one in three homeless people in the United States are younger than 18 years old? Did you know that between 1.6 and 1.7 million people under the age of 18 will experience homelessness each year?
The Leo Club wants to help their peers, by collecting gently used jeans, in any brand or size. The jeans will be donated to local homeless shelters and centers. Look for the donation bin in the front lobby of Folly Quarter Middle School. The collection effort will run through Feb. 10. This is a great way to clean out your closet, with jeans that may be too big or too small.
Folly Quarter Middle School and Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School each recently held a GeoBee, a contest to test student knowledge of geography. Winning at the school level for Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School was fifth-grader Ana Lesho (first place) and fourth-grader Sanjya Vashist (second place).
At Folly Quarter Middle School, Brian Rohner was the winner. He will now take the qualifying test to have a chance to compete at the state level. Greg Brock was the runner up in the contest and Alex Medley placed third.
Congratulations goes out to both the winners, as well as the many other students who worked hard throughout the fall to prepare for this tough competition.
In addition to the GeoBee accomplishments, Triadelphia Ridge students are leaving their mark throughout the county. Several students recently created entries for the Maryland Young Authors contest.
Grade-level winners included short story entries by second-grader Rachel Soubier, third-grader Kelly Dresner, fourth-grader Anjalie Gowda and fifth-grader Ada Beams. Poetry entries by third-grader Nikki Wildy, fourth-grader Katie Spiegel and Ana Lesho were also selected as school level winners.
All of these winning entries went on to the Howard County competition. Ana's poem placed first at the county level and has now moved onto state level competition.
Three third-grade Triadelphia Ridge students also recently had their tessellation artwork selected to be displayed in the Howard County Department of Education Gallery.
Emily Choe, Sarah Hornor and Lauren Odachowski, along with other third- and sixth-graders from throughout the county, were honored at a reception in late January to celebrate this artistic achievement.