My CAP 2020-2022 and CAS 2023 Journey


CLIMATE ACTION PROJECT 2020




CAP 2020



We started our CAP (Climate Action Project) journey via FaceTime as a way to have engaging communication between grandparents living in Oklahoma and grandchildren starting preschool in Massachusetts during Covid-19 times. 


In our first-six weeks of participation, we worked virtually on the difference between weather and climate. My grandchildren's preschool teacher had a maple tree farm and we connected global warming and climate change to what was happening to the production of my grandchildren's favorite topping for pancakes, maple syrup.  


CAP also empowered us to communicate with a preschool teacher from California who shared her CAP plans for her classes and validated my (the grandmother) inexperienced early childhood educator efforts.  We followed Ivette’s suggestions during CAP 2020 and 2021.


Our first CAP climate action was simply watching a memorial Japanese maple tree planting at the children's backyard.  We also started making a virtual bilingual (Spanish-English) picture alphabet book of our first climate action words.  




Repurpose Carboard Rocket Ship to Mars

CAP 2021


In the second six-weeks of CAP participation, grandparents moved to Massachusetts and the climate action communication was in person on Wednesdays after school. 


We reviewed and expanded concepts from our first CAP interaction like seasons connected to weather and climate change as extreme weather.  We also focused on global warming (adding blankets to an already covered earth) and human generated pollution as the cause of our earth's fever.  


We changed our consumer habits and began to use, reuse, recycle, and repurpose routinely because the preschool and kindergarten school my grandchildren were attending in person were also focusing on those areas. 


During CAP Climate Action Days, my grandchildren had their first glance of the space station, astronauts, and saw our earth from space.  The webinars inspired my grandson to create cardboard spaceships and  wear an astronaut costume for three consecutive years for Halloween.


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