Week 10 term 2

End of term already!

Room 13 have had a very busy term. We have been sharing our learning using our online "seesaw" journals. These give our family and whānau the opportunity to see what we have been learning throughout the day. We really like it when they respond to our learning stories. 

This term we investigated where our school rubbish and recycling goes. 

 We looked at our rubbish and decided we could do a better job of sorting our recycling from our rubbish. 

We learnt that our milk cartons get recycled in things like new walls, roof tiles and books. 

We learnt that our worm farm likes to eat wet, shredded paper. 

 We found a lot of paper was being thrown out. If you recycle one ton of paper you can save 17 trees.  Some parents came and helped us to recycle our classroom paper waste. Our favourite part of the process was "mushing" the paper waste. 

 Mushed paper makes a paper pulp. You use a deckle to scoop up paper pulp.

 Squeeze out the extra water.

Then you need to dry your recycled paper on a board for three or four days. We discovered that thick pulp makes cardboard that is hard to cut with scissors. We have put our recycled paper in our making area for future projects.