Reduce,Reuse,Recycle
Recycling is something that everyone needs to do because it saves the earth one bottle, cup, paper at a time. Here at Valley View High School, we have a class called EAST. My partner and I, Mason have joined the recycling team. We go around our campus and collect items such as paper, cans, bottles, etc etc. If you chose to recycle in Jonesboro, you have the choice for the people who run the recycle company to come and pick up your blue bags two times a month. We also have a company here in Jonesboro called abilities unlimited. Their purpose is to “improve the living and working conditions of individuals with disabilities.” They also have a recycling center that is open twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week so you can go drop off your trash or recycle items at any time. It is a great company. We plan to recycle on Mondays and Thursdays, but sometimes we will also do it on Wednesday. We go to the elementary, Junior high, and the Intermediate. One of the teachers in the junior high collects bags and she said that she will give us some of those to help with recycling. Another teacher from the intermediate also recycles stuff on her own and she gives us multiple bags full of cans and such. We drop off all of the bags that we get here at the high school under some stairs and we wait on the trucks to come by. They come by two times a month to get the bags that we have collected. Abilities Unlimited is the company that picks up the recycled stuff, it helps them because when they take it, they get paid. They have people that can pay for a membership. Our school has also started doing something for better water usage, they have a motion sensor to pour water so we won't waste it. Altogether we have recycled 2,962 water bottles. These new water filling stations were provided by a grant provided by the obesity reduction grant from the University of Arkansas.
Beats
This nine weeks in East Austin Beggs, Noah Robinson, Jay Johnson, Jessie Rodriguez, and Kyle Workman are working as a team. We have chosen to work with music and the app GarageBand. We are learning as a group how to use the keyboard and making beats. Each group members assignments is jay will be rapping , Austin will be working on the article, Jessie will be helping with the beats, and Kyle will be putting the beat together. We will be using this song for any home games. The mic that we are using is called snowball and it is a very good mic. We are also using a keyboard that gives us the option to use many beats and music to use with the song. We took our time as a group to find the right beat to rap to. We plan to be able to use this song for home games in any sports available. We each carefully listened and worked on finding and making a good beat for Jay to rap to. After working with beats we have found the perfect one for Jay to finish his song for. We are working together with GarageBand and the keyboard trying to make beats and music. We are learning about and what we can do with the app and keyboard. The finished product will be a beat by our group and Jay rapping. We can use this song for any home
games before the game. Our group is working on coming
up with lyrics for Jay to rap.