Oakbrook School Recycling Club “Green Team”

The Green Team selects students from 2nd grade classes to represent our school. Students will receive a permission slip to be signed when selected. The Green Team will meet once a month before school on an Early Dismissal Day from 8:10-8:40. Dates will be listed on the permission slips. 
The Green Team promotes “Thinking Green” at Oakbrook School in a number of different ways which include:

• Brainstorming ideas with the students of what they feel is important and why
• Learning about the 3 R’s-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Teaching others about how they can help protect the environment
• Creating posters to promote saving the environment
• Reminding others to bring waste free lunches and to use both sides of the paper before throwing it away
• Using recycled materials for projects to reduce waste/reuse 
• Promoting other ways to reduce waste 
• Collecting pop tabs for recycling to donate and support the Ronald McDonald House Charities
• Promoting Arbor Day and Earth Day Activities
• Help maintaining the School Garden

Mrs. Kelly Hirsig leads the Green Team in supporting Oakbrook School’s effort to reduce, recycle and reuse the resources in our environment.

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Wellness Club

In an effort to provide additional Social Emotional Learning (SEL), one of our staff members leads 1st and 2nd grade students through strategies and methods on how to calm their bodies and build a positive mind set  Throughout the year, students will focus on spreading positivity by creating posters and signs for the school, learning yoga poses, learning meditation to calm anxiety, practice physical fitness to clear their minds, build a "worry pet,"  learn to make healthy food choices, and how to use a Positive Growth Mindset. The club will meet on the first early dismissal day each month.

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Reading Club

The main goal of the club is to provide an engaging opportunity for our primary students to enrich their reading lives and to interact with other children who love reading. A reading club can encourage a growing love of reading, introduce students to a series they could enjoy, resulting in further developed reading habits, and promote involvement in the community.  Other activities that will be performed include reading a shared text, discussing the story and completing literacy games. The club meets at Oakbrook once a month during an early dismissal morning at around 8:10-8:40.