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Children First: Rapid City kids clean school campus for Earth Day

What are your Earth Day plans? Kids at West Middle School in Rapid City are cleaning up their campus.

"It makes me feel good because, you know we do sports out here and stuff and we want it to be clean," said 8th grader Brianna Linn.

Every week at West one grade takes time to roam around the schoolyard and pick up litter, but Wednesday, in honor of Earth Day the school's entire student body scoured the campus and surrounding areas collecting trash and debris.

"I think it's important that we teach our kids how to pick up trash and take care of the earth, so I think it's good we do it all as a school together," Said reading teacher Kimberly Raaphorst.

The project coincides with National Green Week, an annual program developed by the Green Education Foundation. The program is designed to teach kids how to be environmentally savvy.

Teachers at West say the group clean-up should offer some good lessons.

"That they're part of the earth and that we're all citizens and they need to pick up their garbage and not throw it on the ground," Raaphorst said.