Wild In The Classroom Spotlight: Helping Ninjas
Month: November 2019
Pollinators
For starters, you can help by planting native flowers!
Learning about pollinators and how you can help them is fun! We need pollinators to help our food grow! Learn more!
Popcorn and Pollinators
How do I plant a seed?
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Sammies Buddy Benches
Trick Or Trash! Sammie is joining Helping Ninjas efforts to collect and recycle Halloween candy wrappers and keep waste out of our landfills!
Helping Ninjas leaders recently connected with fellow Indiana native, Sammie who has a lot in common with them — she is helping the world and providing opportunities for student to give back to the Earth and to be kind!
Sammies Buddy Bench
Sammie collects plastic lids (that would otherwise go to a landfill) and sends them to Green Tree Plastics in Evansville, Indiana where they recycle it into a buddy bench!
The Helping Ninjas found out about what Sammie is doing two years ago and began to collect plastic lids and help to spread the word in their community! Now, Indianapolis, has over 20 participating schools!
Sammie wrote a letter to Helping Ninjas founder, Leo, and his four siblings!
Helping Ninjas, founder, Leo and his four younger siblings: Layla, Sawyer and Skyler.
And then Sammie and Leo decided to have a live chat so that they could meet each other and connect online!
The Helping Ninjas invited Sammie to participate in their Trick Or Trash efforts, and if anyone knows Sammie, it didn’t take her long to start collecting! Helping Ninjas invited her to submit a blog post and are excited to name her as an honorary Helping Ninja! Thank you Sammie!
Sammie is collecting candy wrappers with Helping Ninjas for Rubicon Global’s Trick Or Trash!
What is Sammie’s Buddy Bench?
Trick Or Trash Inspired Art
Join in and create art inspired by Rubicon’s Trick Or Trash! Post and share and tag #TrickOrTrashArt
Creating art out of Halloween themes or empty candy wrappers, and learning to express yourself and create awareness about helping our environment and discover your inner artist!
Post on Instagram or FB or mail to [email protected]
Trick or Trash 2019
Leo Berry, Helping Ninjas Founder, 4th Grader
In 2019, Helping Ninjas joined Rubicon’s efforts to reduce candy wrapper waste to landfills and Helping Ninjas founder Leo Berry asked his fourth grade classmates to collect candy wrappers to recycle and create artwork to inspire others! Leo and his fellow classmates created artwork inspired by the Trick Or Trash!
Not only did Leo’s class want to join, his teacher, Mrs. Krisi Roher, had an idea! She asked their principal if the whole school could collect! And, she said yes!
College Wood Elementary Cafeteria, Carmel, IN
Thanks to Leo’s teacher and principal’s support, he is now creating an opportunity for all of the students to learn about reduce food waste, participation in the Trick Or Trash campaign and collect their candy wrappers and return to school to be recycled!
In efforts to bring awareness to the importance of recycling their candy wrappers, Mrs. Roher’s class was invited to display all of their artwork it in the school cafe for all to see! (The Helping Ninjas purchased a bulletin board last year for their schools Green Team from a grant they had one with CICF Indiana’s Carmel Green Team Grant. ) Leo is a student member of Carmel Clay School’s Green Team Club! The fourth grade class also placed a box decorated by their after school club: ESE Helping Ninjas and placed it in the lobby of the school!
The CWE TV Crew made an announcement on the morning televised school news and in the weekly news that goes out to all of the school community. College Wood Elementary collected candy wrappers now through America Recycles Day! Great job College Wood!
ESE Helping Ninjas decorated a Trick or Trash box to collect in the lobby of their school
