Green Week

What

Green Week

When

4/23/2026

Hello Topeka Families!

Next week is GREEN WEEK here at Topeka. Each day next week, your student will have a chance to participate in activities that remind us how, through simple acts, we can take care of our planet.  With Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22nd, this is a perfect time to celebrate our planet.  

Here are the daily themes and how your student and your family can participate:

MONDAY, April 20th: 

Make an Earth Day Pledge - Students will decorate and fill out a goal to support for Earth Day during their lunch time. (Example: Pick up trash, use less water - shorter shower; use less power - less time on screens; recycle paper; plant a tree; reduce use of single use plastics)  Pledges will be displayed on our Earth Day Celebration Banner. 

TUESDAY, April 21st: 

Zero Trash Tuesday - Please help your child pack a lunch with all REUSABLE items with no trash going into the landfill.  Some suggestions are reusable lunch sacks, water bottles, napkins, containers, baggies, etc.  Students who show no trash to the Green Team Volunteers will be given a "Caught Being Green" ticket that can be entered in a raffle.  

WEDNESDAY, April 22nd (Earth Day):

Wear Blue or Green - to help us celebrate Earth Day!

Take A Walk Wednesday - Cut back on pollution by walking, biking, skating or scooting to school.  If this is not possible because you live too far away, please park your car a few blocks from school and walk the last distance with your child.  Students who participate will be given a sticker that says "I walked to school today".

THURSDAY, April 23rd: 

"Try It, You'll Like It" - On Thursday at lunch/recess students will be given the opportunity to visit our “Try it, you’ll like it” table at the garden to taste something new and take a vote if it was a thumbs up or a thumbs down for them. Tasting may include an Exotic fruit, or interesting vegetable, or possibly something grown straight from our Topeka Garden.

***All students who participate in a Green Week activity will be eligible to earn a "Caught Being Green" ticket which will be placed in a bin for raffle drawing at our STEAM NIGHT on April 28th.  

If you are a parent who would like to help with this event, please sign up here: GREEN WEEK VOLUNTEERS