Lessons from the Lorax

We enjoyed reading through the posts from other classes.  It's great to see that children all around the country are learning about ways to care for the environment.
We decided that we wanted to think a bit more about the book "The Lorax" because this is one we know very well.
We asked ourselves a question.  "What are the lessons about the environment in The Lorax?"
Our teacher showed us how to upload our pictures to Photo Peach.
The Photo Peach slideshow was a bit fast, so we have a Slide Share show too.  That is cool as well, because it links to other children's work on The Lorax.
Room 2, Grape Reading Group, Kaipara Flats SchoolLessons from the lorax

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Lessons from the Lorax on PhotoPeach

Composting the Fruit Scraps

Our school is part of the 'Fruit in Schools' programme.

Twice a week we get deliveries of fruit, and each class gets a bucket of fruit to enjoy every day. 
Pineapples are a favourite. 
Other fruits we might get include apples, oranges, pears, plums, melon, kiwifruit and persimmons among others.

We don't put the fruit scraps in with the other rubbish. 
Class monitors take the scraps down to the compost bin.

The scraps get put in the school compost heap and the compost is used on the gardens.

Do you compost food scraps?

By B4

Caring for the environment

                                Caring for the environment

Litter, litter, litter. We can see litter everywhere! Scoring a goal in the trash can isn't a hard job. Did you know that littering can cause lots of damage and problems. These are some examples: It causes sea animals to die, pollution, makes the earth dirty!

Room 20 Cyberkids

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle

Here at Pinehill School we take looking after the environment seriously.  We do a lot of things to keep our school and the environment clean.

Here are a few things we do around the school:

- We have painted the drains to remind people that these drains only drain rain!
- We sort our rubbish with paper and cardboard boxes separately so they can be recycled properly.
- Walking to school is promoted at our school so we don't use cars as often.
- We also take our own rubbish from our lunch boxes home.

Yesterday our school was awarded the Gold Travelwise School Award and received an additional Walking Award for 'contribution to creating a walking or scooter culture in the school'.  Here is a picture of our school representatives with these awards.

From Pinehill Room 14

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What a Load of Rubbish!

 Today we read about Sommerville’s Wrapper Free Wednesday and it got us thinking… Just how much rubbish does our school create in a day? We decided to find out how much rubbish goes into our bins after a typical morning tea. Some of the Neinsteins went out and collected all of the wrappers and, bags and gladwrap from morning tea. Some children could not give us any as their food was packed into plastic containers instead of being wrapped up.

We were surprised by the results  so we researched a little bit further and found out to our horror that gladwrap can take 1000 years to decompose, foil will take 100 years and paper takes about 2-6 weeks.

This maths inquiry is going to turn into a mini inquiry. We have asked ourselves "So What?" Now that we know this, what will we do about it?  

By the Neinsteins, Dunedin NZ

The Lorax by Room 11 at PVS

Wrapper Free Wednesday !

Today at our School we started a trial of bringing our lunches without wrappers or anything that has to be thrown away.

So how does this work?

On Wednesday, week 8, 9 & 10 of this term, all lunchbox’s will be free of all wrappers, glad wrap, snap lock bags and paper wrappers.

Each Wednesday morning the class councillor or teacher checks all the lunch boxes of the students.

If the lunchbox is completely empty then you get your name on a list and at the end when everyone's lunch box has been checked then you add up how many people had no wrappers in their lunchbox and you get 2 house points per person eg. If you have 30 students then that's 60 house points. 

(Teachers are also expected to contribute to the cause as well so you can blame your teacher if you don't get lots of house points)

By the way some teachers take it seriously like ours and he brought a wrapper free lunch so you can't blame him !

Is your school doing anything like this?  We would be interested to hear your thoughts on this subject.

by Dylan room 29 Somerville Intermediate