Room 20 2015: 2015

Room 20's Sustainability Projects...

This term we have been learning about sustainability and how to make ourselves, our class and our school more environmentally friendly. We have learnt about composting, worm farming, recycling, and our impact on the environment leading to our carbon footprint.

In small groups the students have been planning a sustainability project for themselves, the class or the school. They were then to source the materials they thought they would need, keeping in mind the topic of sustainability. Working collaboratively as a group, some of the groups had their materials ready to go this past Tuesday, other groups were still sourcing materials or fine tuning their plans once they realised that the project may not be as sustainable or practical as thought. Unfortunately, we were unable to get onto our projects today as originally planned due to individual music lessons, choir, kapa haka and class swimming. Thank you very much to the parents who were able to help transport materials to school.

On Tuesday we began to put together a compost bin and a worm farm out by Mrs Lochie's vege garden. In doing so we learned about perimeter, as we had to measure the pallets before constructing the boxes. We have also used our knowledge of composting and worm farms in the construction of these boxes.

Next week on Thursday and Friday we will continue on and aim to complete the planned sustainability projects. As we are working with 7-8-9 year olds, the projects may change and the outcomes may differ from what they had planned! If any parents are able to offer some of their time this coming Thursday, it would be greatly appreciated. Please email Traci to confirm times.

Photos will follow.

Today we had a visit with Tori from Waste Care Schools. We learnt about worm farms and composting and the importance of recycling to help reduce the waste we create around the home.

Here are some of the things we learnt today:

***Bokashi bins- Bokashi bins are when you have any type of food. The bokashi bin breaks down the rubbish by chemical things inside. You will have to wait 7-10 days until it breaks down.

Worms- Worms work for breaking down fruit scraps and vege scraps. Worms have 5 hearts and they don’t have any teeth lungs and not a big brain like us humans have.

Landfill / Rubbish worm farming - In Auckland we create a lot of rubbish and we didn’t try to compost. Our fruit scraps go to the landfill and it won’t decompose. We can recycle the plastic that we have and reuse them again and again. We shouldn’t throw our plastic and our fruit scraps.

Leachate- Leachate is a type of liquid that have toxic and bacteria in it.

It can also pollute the rivers and sea. By Kelvin

*** By Leigh

Title: Waste wise schools...

Introduction: Does your school end up with full bins every day? Well room 20s school did. That’s why they got someone over to help explain how to limit the amount of rubbish going in their bins, and to be a waste wise school.

P.2 What is a waste wise school? A waste wise school is a school that reuses(or finds a way) to stop rubbish getting in the bins. A waste wise school is a smart school that finds better things to do with rubbish then throwing it in the bins. Those are waste wise schools.

P.3 Just after morning tea Tori come in to talk to us about how to become a waste wise school, and what changes, and challenges we could take to help our school.

***Stop! Don’t waste your waste! Stop throwing away your rubbish too much! The landfill will be overflowing! Guess what! Each week, Auckland makes a lot of rubbish! So don’t throw away to much! by Oscar

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by Lotuga

I had a nice beautiful day today because someone came into room twenty. It was a woman and her name was tori. She was a nice woman she showed us a picture about rubbish and the rubbish was bigger than the rugby field thing
***Tori said When you worm farm you have to have tiger worms. I don't know why you need them i think you need because they like the dark by Riley

***landfill makes smog that not good for humans . they aren't good for the environment Because they make humans sick from the smog By Sahil

***Title:Leigh the tiger worm. by Sam

When Tori was here she said would like to dress up.Then she picked Leigh to dress up as striped tiger worm.She wasn’t the exact colour of a tiger instead she was the colour orange and pink.When she turned into a striped tiger worm we said some magic words.The magic words were abracadabra turn Leigh into a tiger worm.And when it was time to change Leigh back into her old self again the magic words were abracadabra change Leigh back into herself old self again.She looked like an orange and pink sausage.

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today we learnt about worm farms and tiger worms leigh had too dress up in the worm costume

we sorted rubbish i had fun doing the activities by Zack

***Tori told us about worm farms and the types of categories recycle landfill we had to get rubbish and put them into the right category . we got to see worm farms in one of them there were like 245 worms! . she red us a story with worms farms. landfills make smoke and fog make smog . Smog isn't good is good for our environment. By Trent

***By Celine

16/11/2015

Waste wise schools.

On monday the sixteenth in room 20 Tory came in to tell us abit more about sustainability. Some facts that I learnt was that only tiger worms can go into a compost bin. Tiger worms got their name, because they have stripes.

After that she asked for an assistant which ended up as leigh. Then we needed to use our fingers as magic wands and say 1...2...3 worm magic. After we said that Tory quickly dressed Leigh up as a tiger worm that had no arms or legs the only thing that you could see on Leigh was her face that wasn’t covered.

Next Tory told us that worms have five hearts, so she put a necklace with five hearts on Leigh. Then she showed us on Leigh how the egg sack comes off. Let me tell you what I mean when a worm is pregnant there appears an egg sack on the worm, and as the worm wriggles the egg sack pops off so the eggs hatch by themselves.

Lucky for us she brang some worms from her three worm farms we got to take a stick and look at the thousands of worms. She took one container of worm eggs for us to look at the eggs were tiny and it’s hard to think that there is such a tiny animal inside.

That is what we did on monday in room 20 2015.

Below are some photos from our visit with Tori.