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TEACHER CAROLYN YARBROUGH pauses to give instructions as students (from left) Santana Evans, Danielle Harris, Erin Garner and David Scott sort their coins or listen. EARTH DAY Youngsters Collect Pennies To Help Rescue A Rainforest BY SUSAN USHER Sccond graders at Supply Ele mentary School are counting their pennies these days for a worthwhile cause: They want to help save the Earth's rainforests. On Earth Day last Thursday, the air inside Carolyn Yarbrough's classroom tingled with electricity as 19 boys and seven girls bent intently to their task against a backdrop of posters that encourage rescuing rain forests and recycling. After scoop ing up cups of coins and sorting out the "silver," foreign coins and cur rency, they began counting out the pennies that remained into groups of 10. "Wc were shooting for 3,500 pen nies (S35) and I think wc got it," said Yarbrough as she eyed the slacks of pennies mounting on tables and desks. For every group of 50 coins dumped into a bucket, a mark went on the board; 126 marks in all as the hour progressed. Multiply that times 50 and the students learned they had collected 6,300 pennies?more than enough to adopt an acre of the Atlantic Rainforest in the Lagmar Region of Brazil and just 200 pen nies short of the adoption fee for two acres. Yarbrough reminds the students of currency and larger de nomination coins still to be counted. "You've done it!" she announced. B.A. Price did a little dance in cele bration, while other students cheered and applauded. At their teacher's suggestion, the students gave them selves a pal on the back for a job well done. As a result of their efforts, more acreage in the rainforesl will be con served and protected by The Nature Conservancy, which sponsors Adopt -An-Acre jointly with the Earth's Birthday Projcct. "Danny and I have been members of The Nature Conservancy for years, and 1 had accumulated quite a bit of information," said Mrs. Yar brough as she explained how she came to use the Adopt-An-Acre pro ject in her classroom for the first time three years ago. "This, the entire sccond grade is doing," she said. "Next year we would like to do it with the entire school." Sccond grade teachers at Supply Elementary are using rainforests as thcmatic units of study that stretch across the curriculum to include sci ence, the arts, communications, citi zenship and math. They've studied plants and animals found in the rain forest, how rainforest conservation fits in with other efforts at conserva tion and waste reduction, and ap plied basic skills. Ann Thomas Heath, the school's teacher for the academically gifted, provided en richment activities for each class. In SECOND~GP.ADER Jennifer Kirby uses subtraction to fi flu OUt how many pennies a classmate needs to have 50. addition to Yarbrough, other partici pating classroom leathers include Annette Kccscc, Ann Ranon, Jul iane Moon, Lynn Burroughs and Lisa Tate. Thursday afternoon, Yarbrough's class began winding up its study of the rainforest with a math class the youngsters hardly realized was oc curring. They were too busy looking for answers as they counted in groups of 10 to 50, counted by 5's to 125, added, subtracted, multiplied, estimated and tallied. Down to odd numbers of pennies, students figured out how to share their coins to make up groups of 50, checking their addition and subtrac tion on the board. Ask any student in Yarbrough's class, "So what's important about a rainforest?" and the answers comc quickly and thickly. Rainforests, they're quick to explain, arc dense tropical forests "found near the equator." They're called rainforests bccausc it rains almost every day of the year, which makes the forests very humid. Temperatures remain in the 80s year round and the sun shines 12 hours a day. While they cover only 7 pcrccnt of the Earth, rainforests are home to half of all the plants and animals in the world. Also more than 140 million people live in the world's rainforests. That diversity is important, says Mario Green, who's barn studying about trees being cut in the rainfor est. When the tall trees that form the rainforest canopy are felled, it de stroys the homes and foods of many plants and animals. Also, he said, "there arc plants in the rainforest scientists don't know about yet Some of them could pro vide new cures." Erin Garner was impressed with the array of insects in the rainforest, especially ants. "We learned that 40 different kinds of ants can live in a single tree in the rainforest," she said. "And there arc even more kinds that live in the rainforest." Students also had the option of taking home and signing individual copies of the Earth's Birthday Pledge: "Because the Earth is my home and needs my help to survive, I will try my best to respect it at all times by recycling, conserving ener gy, saving water, and buying and us ing products that arc least h;irmful to the environment I also promise to remind my friends and family to care for Earth in the same way." STAFF PHOTOS BY SUSAN USHER B.A. PRICE concentrates on the job at hand. ROATS lor a dry ride 1-800-545-2293 919-457-9080 Keiserhaus Kennels In Supply 754-7122 Boarding Dogs & Cats Basic Glooming Irldooi Runs fct Healed & Air Conditioned ?Outdoor Exeicise Aiea 1403 Makatoka Rd. NW NOW SERVING BREAKFAST SPECIALS Mon.-Sat. 6 AM-11AM Fri. and Sat. 10 PM-3 AM 11ARBOU SQUARE ? HWY. 17 LITTLE RIVER, SC/803-249-9553 1/4 Ct. Bracelet Dazzle Her On $149 ^ Mother's Day...May 9 ct. from $249 J? 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