FOX-TV coverage of Earth Hour at The Goddard School can be found at the following FOX-TV link. See how our children are learning about conservation and protecting our environment!
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FOX TV coverage of Earth Hour @ Goddard School
Friday, March 26th, 2010Goddard School of Cedar Park celebrates Earth Hour
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Climate change is happening all around us and its pace is accelerating. From melting glaciers to increasingly intense weather patterns, climate change is already impacting life on Earth.
Since we are closed on Saturday, on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. local time, The Goddard School of Cedar Park and our students will be taking part in what promises to be an amazing and inspiring event in the fight against climate change: Earth Hour. Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Earth Hour asks individuals, businesses, government leaders and others to turn out all non-essential lighting for one hour as a bold statement of collective concern about climate change. Please visit Goddard Earth Hour for more details.
Earth Hour is the largest event of its kind in the world. In 2009, nearly one billion people from 4,100 cities in 87 countries turned out their lights, as well as international landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, Eiffel Tower and Great Pyramids, and the city skylines of Las Vegas, Hong Kong and Tel Aviv.
We’d like to encourage you to join us in this important effort. Participation is free and easy:
1. Sign up at EarthHour.org
Show your support, find out what Earth Hour events are happening near you and get tips on organizing fun events in your community.
2. Spread the Word
Invite your friends and family to join the movement, become a fan on Facebook and post a link to EarthHour.org on your profile page.
3. Turn off the Lights
Turn off your non-essential lighting at 8:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 27.
To get a better sense of the magnitude of the effort, please take a moment to watch WWF’s video about Earth Hour: www.myearthhour.org/news/media.
Our school has long believed in operating responsibly. In the days leading up to Earth Hour, we will take an even closer look at actions we can take throughout the school to operate more efficiently, waste less and reduce our environmental footprint.
Please join us as we turn out and take action! Contact us at 512.258.5292 if you’d like more details on our scheduled Earth Hour event on March 26th!
Baby yoga at The Goddard School of Cedar Park
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Yoga is incorporated into the school’s curriculum and has many benefits for our children.
Yoga actually helps children concentrate better and develop skills essential to reading because a lot of the poses require gazing off into the distance while concentrating a specific point. Better concentration skills mean a better ability to read and do math, plus there’s always the benefits of exercise. Starting at an early age really helps with muscle control as well.
From postures to breathing techniques, children stretch in fun and interesting poses such as the “downward dog” or the “sitting mountain.”
Parents see a difference at home with their children, as it relaxes a child and they often come home with a new yoga pose to tell the parents about.
View local news coverage by KXAN NBC of Goddard School’s yoga program at this link CLICK HERE
NBC coverage of The Goddard School Earth Hour event
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009NBC news coverage of Earth Hour at The Goddard School of Cedar Park can be found at the following NBC link. Featured are Collin Young, staff director for Texas Campaign for the Environment and City of Cedar Park councilman Lowell Moore.
The Goddard School of Cedar Park celebrates Earth Hour
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Switch Off Your Lights for One Hour on March 28th
– The Goddard School of Cedar Park is happy to announce it has joined the World Wildlife Fund’s 2009 program for *Earth Hour”. Earth Hour is a global call to action about climate change set for March 28th, at 8:30 PM. It is estimated that more than a billion people, in more than 1000 cities around the world, will turn off their lights for one hour in a vote for action on the climate crisis.
The Goddard School of Cedar Park joins the other 320 Goddard Schools nationwide to help spread the message that by working together, each one of us can make a positive impact toward a sustainable future. The Cedar Park pre-school is actually launching an entire week of activities beginning on March 23rd – and leading up to a big celebration event at 10:00 A.M. on Friday morning, March 27th, the day before the global happening.
“Our Earth Hour initiative is intended as a message of hope and action for our younger generation, and we trust it will send a powerful message about saving energy and the environment. It’s just our way to demonstrate that each one of us can make a difference”, says Maria Aggen, owner/operator of the Goddard School of Cedar Park. “Imagine what we might accomplish, if we all act together”.
Through the ensuing week, the children and teachers get to participate in a variety of fun activities, games and lessons to increase their awareness of how energy use and daily activities can affect the future of the planet, and how they can conserve energy in their daily lives. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has even created a website, www.earthhourkids.org, to feature lessons, games and songs that children can download. There is also a section for parents to email state and federal representatives about this initiative.
In preparation for Earth Hour 2009, the teachers at The Goddard School actually integrate the environment into a number of engaging learning activities, including art projects, science lessons, and even into snack time for the children!
Each classroom will nominate an official “Lightning Bug” — to be responsible for turning out classroom lights when the children exit the room. Children will also create invitations for their parents to join them for the Earth Hour celebration.
Then, on March 27th, The Goddard School observes Earth Hour with its own special event, Stepping Up for the Environment. The teachers and children will create a large banner that the students can decorate with footprints, creating their own little “carbon” footprint to create awareness of Earth Hour 2009. At 10:00 AM, the school will turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour.
So, on March 28th, the rest of us — housing tenants and homeowners, alike — can simply turn off our porch lights, or some of our indoor lights for one hour at 8:30 PM. Turning off our television sets and computers would actually contribute to an even greater energy savings during the event!
About Earth Hour and the World Wildelife Fund (WWF):
Earth Hour is a global initiative in which millions of people around the world will cast a vote in favor of action on climate change by turning off their lights for one hour on March 28th, at 8:30 PM local time.
By voting with their light switches, participants will send a powerful, visual message to their leaders demanding immediate action on climate change. WWF is the world’s leading conservation organization, working in 100 countries for nearly half a century.
The WWF is dedicated to delivery of science-based solutions to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth
About The Goddard School:
The Goddard School® for Early Childhood Development is a co-educational pre-school providing a preparatory education to students of varied religious, social and academic backgrounds.
With more than 40,000 children currently enrolled nationwide, The Goddard School is the fastest growing preschool franchise in the United States. Goddard was recently recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as the “#1 Childcare Franchise” for the eighth consecutive year (January 2009).
