The Arcadia Third Grade students visited the Arcadia Beach. They picked up and documented the litter they found. This learning project not only help the students learn, it helped the community by cleaning the beach.

Thank you, Third Graders!

Dear Mrs. Goins,
I aw lots of trash on the beach sweep. I had a rough time doing it all alone but I had Joe to halp me pik up trash. the charts and graph tout me that the most trash was plastic. ...?

I learned that ther eis a lot of lady bogs at the beach. The graph was awsum we made. We found a hole lot of trash in the bag. We couldn't even mark it all. We fonde a big pease of medel in the bag. It was cool. The water was cool you could see a long way. The most on the graph was plastic. ...Katlyn

The graph showed us the level of trash. The "Y" and the "X" axis showed us the numbers and the name of trash, Thelabels showed us the names of trash, the labels showed us the name of the "Y" and the "X" axis. The chart showed us the total of trash. We ended up with 132 pieces of trash. ...Katie

We lerned how mane piecis of trash we picked up on the beach, and every graph or chart has a title. We picked up all types of tash. The chart should have tick marks. ...Joe

Dear Mrs. Goins,
We went to the beach sweep on September 22. Thier was more plastin than rubber, and thier was 47 peaices of plastic, but their were 15 peacise of rubber. I learnd that you shouldnt throw trash on the beach. A lot of people throw trash on the beach. ...Noelle

I learned not to litter. I also learned abut how charts and graphs can tale me how much trash we picted up. I really liked the beach sweep. ...Joe

Dear Mrs. G.
We sweeped the beach on September 22, 2000 Fri. I learnd how to pick up on the beach. I found lots of wood. I've been there befor. I learnd that we pickt up 10 piesis of wood because of chart and graph. ...Danny

Dear Mrs. Goings,
I think the beach sweep was very fun. I learnd charts and graphs need labels. I would not pick up that much without Danny. He helped a lot. I alsow learnd that charts and graphs have titles. The graph showed all the different kinds we picked up. ...?

Dear Mrs. Goins,
We went on the beach sweep September 22, 2000. It was very rainy. Our papers were soaked. I learned that their was a lot of garbage on beaches and lady bugs. Their all different kinds of trash. The charts and graph showed me how much and what kind of trash. The most kind was plastic. The least was cloth. ...Kylie

I liked the charts because they toled me the numbers of the trash. The graphs shows the number of trash on the chart. I can see the less bottle caps than the more plastik. I also learned about the trash that people throw down. ...Matt

We picked up glass and balloons. It was fun to pick up balloons and glass. I piked up a lot of trash. The class picked up a lot of glass. We filled a lot of bags. ...Brandon

September 22, 2000