he environmental education work has been present for more than ten years at desembergador amorim Lima Municipal school, since the group “nature Watchers” was created. Located in the neighborhood of Butanta, in the capital city of sao Paulo, that school has close to eight hundred elementary level students.according to its principal, teacher ana elisa siqueira, the “group was conceived with the goal of making the students and the community sensitive to the importance of taking care of the space where we live – our house, our school, our street, our neighborhood, our city. that undertaking has taken place very slowly”.In the school, the students were the first to join in the weekly meetings, off the period of classes. every year there’s a group that enrolls and actively participates, taking care of recycling, of the selective collection of garbage, of the vegetable garden, of the beauty of the school.environmental education has been a mark that provides material for constant reflection about what taking care of the environment means. For example, since we needed to take care of the school’s entrance, we made a beautiful panel made up of tiles painted by the students and teachers. the children who participated discussed about the plants, the preservation, the beauty, the recycling of material. When we realized we needed a water point, that is, a faucet outside the school, we talked about the rational use of water, its importance in our lives, the lack of water and its consequences. Finally, we built a drinking fountain together with the students. Water on a hot day is joyful; in the absence of the swimming pool, the faucets are fun!the vegetable garden is also a living place of the school. We plant with the young students, talk about planting, water, gather and eat the result of our undertaking. It’s a joy to wait for the great harvest for the collective salad, or to take a little bit in a bouquet, to make the best salad in the world at home and thus enable the family to taste our undertaking.the watchers are also very active in times of party, helping in the preparation, making ornaments, cleaning up the school, preparing snacks or a thought proposal for all in the party. For example, the tree of wishes: each