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=Earthday Picnic Reflections=

Earthday this year was really fun, we went to the Botanic Gardens to have a picnic as a class. We were supposed to prepare a environmentally-friendly picnic meal for our friends to enjoy. For our group, we had some really interesting ideas on what we were going to do for our classmates. For example, we came up with a 'cone-cake' idea, which was supposed to save the use of paper. Cone-cakes were basically cupcakes that were fitted onto ice-cream cones. These cupcakes were then covered in icing to make it look like real ice-cream. Prior to the picnic, we were made to complete a worksheet for biology. We went around looking for leaves. As a group, we walked around the Botanic Gardens looking for nice looking leaves that had already fallen to the ground. We did not want to pluck the leaves from the tree itself, therefore we only took those that were on the ground. This activity made me apprecitate nature more, as we also had to do various activities that required us to look at the trees and plants for details. We also had a chance to listen to the different sounds made by birds. Listening to these sounds were really interesting as it made me pay more attention to the different sounds of nature. Overall, I feel that Earthday this year was not only enjoyable, but it also let me appreciate nature more than before.