SAR Academy early childhood center (ELC) faculty members Morah Noa and Moreh El-Ad embarked on an initiative to deepen students’ understanding of the environment and their role in protecting it. The two explored ideas and initiatives for teaching students about recycling and composting. They challenged the students to think about what they could do to help the environment, including to help save sea turtles (like their class pet “Shelly,” a red-eared slider turtle) by recycling and picking up trash.

In partnership with Grow Torah, SAR’s Art Sparks team, an ELC specialty department that includes music, art, movement and teva (nature) education, to create a video aimed at empowering the students to take an active role in recycling and composting. The video features the students’ own teachers demonstrating SAR recycling best-practices in an effort to encourage students to take action and make a positive impact on our world. The SAR Art Sparks team teaches ELC students that recycling and composting are cool and empowering, while encouraging them to help save the planet one bin at a time.