Focus Group 2: Feb. 19

Jamie started off our second session by returning to the question about their favorite things to do outside. Answers included soccer, riding bikes, "jump in cannonballs and up in the sky," pretending, playing on jungle gyms, and two newcomers to the group added things like gardening and growing stuff, "rolling around," and making mud pies, and Smoky the Bear. Their suggestions for addressing environmental issues included holding litter clean-ups, promoting recycling, stopping cutting trees (deforestation), re-using paper, turning off lights to cut down on global warming, planting bushes, conserving energy and water. 

Suggestions for school changes included more teachers (like the ones they like), growing strawberries and making ice cream, solar panels, planting trees, flowers and bushes, getting rid of the mud pile by the cafeteria, permeable cement ("gets rid of greenhouse gases"), bringing in plants and animals, solar powered school buses, more stalls in girl's bathroom, more toys for outside (different outside activities), do something with trash.