Dear
Cooper Room Friends and families,
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - that is the message from the Cooper Room
this week!
The
children have been really getting into our Sustainable Planet unit. Kristian
and Ammar both shared posters they had made this week during show and tell,
reminding us about the importance of looking after our world. Ammar thought it
was a good idea not to drive everywhere "cos' the cars make the air dirty.
You could ride a bike," he suggested.
During
pack up time we have been working together to make sure we are looking after
our resources and not wasting them too.
"We
can use this paper again" said Gabby
"This
bit of sticky needs to go in the bin," suggested Sebastian
"What
about the bottle tops?" asked Harry A
"I
put them in my rocket," said Henry
We
read a story about Where the Rubbish goes? This lead to some very interesting
discussion and a tour around the school trying to locate special rubbish bins.
"I
put things in the bin and my mummy and daddy do too."
said Kristian
"But
new things don’t go in the bin! You can make new things out of them if you
don’t want it anymore,"explained Jarrah.
"You
can give it to someone else! " said Liam
“Maybe the rubbish guy will put it in the bin and the garbage man
will scrunch it and crunch it." thought Jackson
"You need to put your rubbish in the bin," said Hugo
"Then the rubbish goes to the
dump," added Harry A. "The rubbish will all go away. All the people
will take it."
"If it’s almost full they’ll have to sort it out." suggested Liam
After touring the ELc and the big school we could not believe how much
we found. The children were able to spot many different coloured bins and are
now thinking of strategies to help solve the problem.
Later in week we started to make things using recyclable
materials. Reusing things from home and the ELC they created some great pieces.
We would love the hear from anyone who has a really, really big
box because we would also like to build a spaceship too!
Kind regards
Susan and Coral
