The Recycling Process.

When you take an old unwanted product and make new materials from them you are recycling. This is a way to reduce waste that ends up in landfill.

It is important to put the right things in the yellow bin. The things that should be put in the yellow bin are plastic bottles, cans, glass bottles, milk bottles, yogurt containers, steel cans, aluminum cans, and news paper. You should not put any other stuff in.

The first place the rubbish goes is in the recycling plant, while in there it gets taken into a white room, In there, there are 5 or 6 people who take out the rubbish that should've been put in the red bin. Next the rest goes through another machine and take's the glass bottles to another conveyor belt. The rest of the rubbish then falls on a different conveyor belt which sorts out the cardboard. Eventually all of the rubbish gets sorted out.

Some of the rubbish gets turned into different materials. Plastic bottles get turned into polyester which makes clothes. Milk bottles get turned into the plastic rubbish bins we have at school.

Hopefully people will recycle so we will stop landfill.



By Hannah Judkins

Milk day two

Book reviews with the travelling roadshow

We are using Puppet pals to review a picture book

Library Travelling Roadshow

Drama - The Death of a Tank

Farewell Mrs Harliwich

Last week we bid farewell to Mrs Harliwich. The children of Room 1 created this video.

Disco dancing.

Room 3 at the disco on PhotoPeach

2013 - The blog strikes back

Room 3's blog is back up and running for 2013. Please stay posted and sign up as the children will be showing their class work soon!

THE END

WE HAD SO MUCH FUN LEARNING ABOUT THE MOULD PROCESS AND FOOD HYGINE WITH MISS TARGETT AND MISS KOMEN!!!

What we can do:

To promote food hygine we could do a number of things, such as:

• Tell John Key and he could tell the rest of New Zealand.
• Tell Bob Parker and he could tell everyone in Christchurch.
• Make a fridge magnet.
• Make a poster.
• Put it on the radio.
• Put in on TV as an Ad.

We have decided to make a fridge magnet. This way when you open the fridge you will be reminded to keep your food and bread in the fridge and NOT in the sun.

Our Results:

From our mould experiment we have found that if you keep bread in the fridge it will not grow mould over two weeks.
We also found out that if you keep bread in a plastic container or a plastic bag and leave it in the sun, window, shade, cupboard or up high, it will grow mould over two weeks.
If you keep bread in newspaper or tinfoil for two weeks, it will go crusty and hard like toast.

We need to do something about this!! BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?

Our predictions:

Most students in Room 5 predict that mould will grow the fastest on the bread if it is kept in the sun or in the cupboard. the also predict that if the bread is wrapped in gladwrap that it will grow the fastest.

Most students in Room 5 predict that the bread kept in either the fridge or in the shade and that is either in a bag or a container will grow mould the slowest.

We are all so excited to see whats going to happen!!

The Mould Process

Stage 1: Spore are all around us, even in the air we breathe.

Stage 2: spores land on living organisms

stage  3: the spores begin to fead off the organisms taking all the nutrients from it. mould is beginning to appear. 

Stage 4: the organism starts to decompose and mould appears. 

Mould by Sasha and and Parker

This is what we know about mould:

• It has spores 
• The spores turn into mould
• It forms in spots'
• Smells DISGUSTING

We are experimenting with bread to find out what happens over time depending on what it is wrapped in and where it is stored. 

Trip to Antartic Centre

We went to the Antartic center  because it was for are

                                        topic.We went in separate groups one with Mrs Lissamen and one with Mr Gray.
                                        I had fun - my favourite thing was the snow room.
By Patrick