A Surprise Visitor

On April 19th, we went down the path on Raleigh Street for Walking Wednesday. We were picking up garbage as part of our Earth Day activities for the week. It shocked us to find so many dog poop bags along the path. When we came back to school we thought we should do something about what we saw. Ms. Scalisi suggested we write a letter. Together we wrote a letter to the municipality. Ms. Wasney mentioned that we should send it to Mayor Hart. So we did . . . and guess what? Mayor Hart replied to our letter and said that she wanted to come to visit our class!! Today she stopped by to meet us. She asked us about what we saw on our walk and the suggestions we had to help solve the problem. Mayor Hart was proud of us for taking action. She is going to use our suggestions and she said that our letter is going to be put up in the community to remind others to pick up after their dogs. How cool is that?!

Here are our thoughts:

I learned that Mayor Hart takes care of our community. -Ava
I like that the mayor came here. -Dominic
The mayor came to the school because she wanted to meet us. -Blake
Mayor Hart told us she is going to do the things that we wrote on our letter. -Jack
She told us that a lady walked down the path and she picked up the dog poop and put them into bags. -Ben
Mayor Hart came to our classroom. I was excited to meet her. -Brody
The mayor came to our classroom because we sent a letter to her. -Andrew
She takes care of East St. Paul. -Lily

I was excited that she came to Room 2. -Marshall
I learned to take care of our East St. Paul. Pick up dog poop. -Chase
I enjoyed talking about the problem with Mayor Hart. Now when we go on Walking Wednesdays we hope to not see any poop bags. -Adria
It was cool that Mayor Hart came today. It was my first time meeting her. -Tyson
I was excited that Mayor Hart came because she was going to tell us about what she will do to fix the problem. -Brooke
I am excited because the mayor is going to put our letter on a sign. -Charlotte
Mayor Hart said that she will use both our ideas to problem solve the poop bags. -Bianca

What a thrill it was to have the Mayor take time from her busy schedule to come to meet us. It was very exciting to hear her news. We can't wait to see garbage cans and signs out on the path. We hope you enjoy walking along a cleaner path, we sure will.
-Mrs. T :)