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SEEDlings, It was wonderful to see you all last night! We're glad that so many of you are having good experiences with SEEDS and that there are new people interested as well. For those of you that couldn't come, the lesson plan that we recommended was about watersheds. The three activities that we discussed are the following: 1. Activity where kids try to pass water with their hands down a line. This can lead into a discussion on the importance of conserving water. Then kids use a cup instead of their hand to pass water down a line of them. Then you can discuss what all of their cups could represent as ways to conserve water. (ex. "my cup represents taking shorter showers" etc.) 2. Acting out the water cycle: You can assign one kid or a group of kids to a certain part of the water cycle (rain, cloud, river, estuary, ocean, evaporation etc.) and then they can try to put themselves in order. After they try this, you can then explain the water cycle to them. 3. Activity showing pollutants in watersheds: Crumple up paper and then lay it out on a pan. Then you can ask kids for different potential water pollutants (car oil, fertilizers, animal poop etc.) and draw with markers on the paper to represent the different pollutants. Then you can spray water with your hands onto the "watershed" that you have created and it can show the mixing of pollutants and how it drains into "water bodies" (the flat part of the pan. The markers and tray for this last activity will be in the closet in the SGA offices by Monday afternoon for you to come and get if you want. Also, we need to fund raise for SEEDS, and we were thinking of taking part in a Feel Good fundraiser where we come up with a sandwich and then they sell it for $1 more and then the extra dollar would go towards SEEDS! We need a clever sandwich name and a list of ingredients for the sandwich. In the meeting people came up with "The after school snack". I believe that the ingredients were peanut butter, strawberries, and banana...yummm. So please send us any sandwich ideas! Have a great weekend! -Sarah and Maggie