What's in your lunchbox?

This week we dove into people's lunchboxes. We have been looking at how much waste is in our lunchboxes and what percentage of that waste will decompose. We were shocked when we worked out how long it would take for some of our lunch box contents to breakdown. This was a very interesting activity as we hadn't really thought about how the waste we made when we were five is still somewhere in the world. 

 
 

Blogger of the Week

At our school we do blogger of the week. Our blogger for this week is Katelyn from our class! Katelyn has been doing some amazing blog posts and has been doing some amazing positive, thoughtful, helpful comments. Well done Katelyn! Below is a copy of one of her amazing blog posts.

Recycling for Homework

PLEASE DON’T LITTER!!!

Why you should not litter: If you litter the rubbish can easily just go in the sea and kill sharks, turtles, whales and lots of other animals.

Did you know when you put something in the recycling bin some stuff can be turned into something else?

What can you recycle: You can recycle paper, metal and plastic bottles.

  The metal, paper and bottles get their own piles. Some metal goes to a special factory so it can get crushed and then squashed together from other recycling bins. Then chopped into little pieces. After that, those pieces are melted in a big hot oven and then poured into blocks. The blocks are then sent to other factories because the factories can make other things with the metal. Some metal that you throw away in the recycling bin they don’t go to the dump there become something new like a new metal can or a new roll of foil or even part of a bike and car.

Some old plastic milk jug can be turned into something different too. It is taking to a special factory where it makes the plastic get shredded to bits and melted into a really hot oven and makes little pellets. Factories take the pellets and make them into new things like clothing, carpet and lots more.
But the paper is a little bit different from plastic and metal. Some paper goes to a recycling centre so it can get mixed with other paper in lots of water. Then it gets all goopy so it is smashed together by two big rollers and the rollers turn the goop into big flat pieces. The pieces are then left to dry. After that, they’re then cut into sheets of paper so we can write on them or do art, all sort of things.

So ALWAYS recycle metal, plastic bottles and paper so our environment is BTB.

BTB stands for Better Than Before.

By Katelyn.M

Bacteria Investigation

While the year 6's are on camp we have been looking at our oral hygiene. We did a science experiment where we looked at the way yeast grows with or without sugar. We talked about how yeast is a type of bacteria and then we made observations about what happened.

Clara, Harlem and Jesse's School Map

This is what we made today, we had to make a view of our school on paper or on google drawings. Before we made the maps we went into groups and had a piece of paper that had categories of rubbish and our teachers picked a spot around the whole school to find all the rubbish we can find in that area and then we telly marked it on the paper.

C = compost bin

Orange spheres = compost bins

Green spheres = recycling bins

Yellow spheres = recycling bin

Zero Waste

As a class this term we are exploring the waste our school produces and endeavouring to make our school waste free. Last week we did a waste survey and looked at the waste that was scattered around our school. We were shocked with the amount of rubbish we found especially the rubbish that had been hidden by people. Below are some photos from our waste survey.

 
 

Katelyn's Homework

Compost for homework.

Please don’t litter!!!

Why you should not litter: If you letter the rubbish can easily just go into the sea and kill sharks,            turtles, whales and lots of other animals.
Did you know that you can put yucky old kitchen scrap foods can into the compost bin.
What is Compost: Compost is when you can grow flowers, fruit and vegetables.
How: Some decomposers turn the scrap food into compost. I know it does sound like a horrible job but they love it, And it is good they love it because we need the food. The food also does not come with plastic on it, so that means you are also not using plastic.
What can your compost bin be made out of: Your compost bin can be made out of wood, metal and plastic but I think you should not use the plastic. You want the compost bin to have holes so it does not smell and the bugs can get air to breathe like us humans.
By Katelyn.M

Jackson's Map

This is our school

this is our school. today we found a total of plastic around our school and its a total of 125 plastic in our school. i went on the deck of manu and pepeke there was heaps off stuff on the ground