Teacher: Okay class, Listen up and settle down. It’s time for show and tell. Who will be first? Jeremiah? Come on up to the front Jeremiah and don’t forget to speak up.

Jeremiah: My name is…

Teacher: Louder please.

Jeremiah: My name is Jeremiah Tin Can and I recycle everything. My allowance is five dollars a week. I have been making five dollars a week since I was nine years old – I’m ten now. 01That’s 52 weeks times 5 equals 260. I have in my piggy bank $238 dollars that I saved because I recycle everything except for the things I have to buy – a birthday present for my little sister – and I have to do that every year but this year my mom said I could make her a present so I’m going to do that instead and I figured I can make her a fairy house out of acorns and sticks that I find on the sidewalk because she’s reeeeallly into fairies.

Teacher: That’s very nice Jeremiah, but did you bring anything to show us today?

Jeremiah: I brought a lamp that made out of an old bottle. And…I brought a baseball glove that I made of a milk container.

Kid: That’s kinda cool.

Jeremiah: And I brought a go-cart that I made out of my little sisters old stroller.

Kids: No way, that is so cool!

Jeremiah: I can’t ride it yet because my mom says I don’t have a helmet even though I made a helmet out of old newspapers and glue but my mom says I have to buy a real helmet because a paper helmet isn’t safe.

Kids: Can you show us how to do that?

Jeremiah: All you have to do is before you throw anything away look at it and ask, “What can this become?” and then turn it into that.

Kids: After school I’m gonna try to turn our old refrigerator into a computer! I’m going to make a miniature bug fort out of orange juice containers. I’m going to grow a garden in our old egg shells.

Jeremiah: And guys, guys, I can make a tree with the seeds leftover from the apple I ate for lunch.

Kids: No way!!!! I want to make a tree. Me too! Jeremiah Tin Can you’re the coolest kid in the land.

Teacher: Good job Jeremiah.