<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Hello Families!</span></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><br></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px">One of the activities for the upcoming Healthy Planet Healthy Kids event -- our  annual earth day festival with Star Academy -- on May 9 is the classroom challenge to collect the most non-working markers for recycling. Parents can help by keeping markers from the landfill at home or office and send them with your child to school. Read note to teachers/students below for more details. Thank you!</p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><br></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span> </p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Your classroom is invited to recycle all brands of plastic markers — highlighters, dry-erase markers, sharpies —<span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>from the classroom, home or office and to bring your collection to the Earth Day Fair at our school on Thursday, May 9. </b>There will be a table and parent volunteers waiting for students from TNS and Star Academy to drop off markers; they will weigh the markers and record your contribution. We will announce the class with the most recycled non-working markers. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p3" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The Crayola ColorCycle program has repurposed more than 70 tons of expended markers in the United States and Canada since 2013. Crayola uses advanced technology to convert the plastic to "make wax compounds for asphalt and roofing shingles as well as to generate electricity that can be used to heat homes, cook food, and power vehicles.” <span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Thank you for your participation.<span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p5" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">TNS PTA Eco Committee</span></p><p class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-p4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-m_-4628565443243152429gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">April 2019</span></p></div>