Recycle Signal

Today at Enrich Isabella's Mum came in again and we finished rolling the newspapers. We also started the table top. First of all we chose a design. The design was the recycle signal, that you see on the bottom of the things you can recycle, outlined in black and coloured in white, then we had a circle and it was coloured in green. Next we put little black circles around the circle and decided we'd colour in the rest of the cardboard white. We put it all on and it actually looked pretty good. This is what it looked like:

Teacher Comment

Hi Kate.

Your preparation for the recycled furniture is going so well!  You girls were REALLY busy all day.  I didn’t hear any complaining about all the painting you had to do - you all just got on with it!  Great to see.  The discussion about water pollution today was pretty interesting.  We could see your thoughts progressing with each question you asked!  It is something to keep in mind, that while we are doing our bit with our environment projects, we also need to keep in mind the bigger picture and the fact that if everyone does just one thing to help - even through awareness - then this is a step in the right direction.  It was great to see you so involved in the discussion Kate!  Katie.

Coloured Circles

Today at Enrich we painted the circles from the pizza boxes colours after painting them white last week. We painted a few white but mostly we painted the already white ones blue, yellow, orange, purple, green and red. We still need to make 60 more newspaper rolls because we didn't make any this week and we still have lots more cardboard circles to paint!

The Legs

Today we continued with our table. We focused on our legs. We made 120 rolls of newspaper. There is going to be 40 rolls in each leg. We have made 3 legs. We also went to the pizza box man and we got millions of circles and two pieces of big cardboard. The pictures above are of us working:

Rolling the News

Today at Enrich Pippa and I rolled newspapers for the legs of our table. When we had finished rolling and taping for the day, we had made twenty sticks and we had forty more to go. We used paper tape for the middle newspaper sticks and we are going to use this strong clear tape for the outside sticks. We are on our way to finishing it but we still have a long way to go.

Recycled Furniture

Today Isabella, Pippa and I started our project on recycling furniture. Isabella's Mum had done it before for the Southland Disability Enterprise's foyer. The furniture was amazing! She took us to see it and it was even more amazing there than in the pictures. Then she took us to see the man who gave her the cardboard for the couch and one of the chairs. The man made pizza boxes and had lots of leftover cardboard. He also had lots of these leftover circles. Then Anais joined our group and we decided that we'd make a table with the table top made out of stacked cardboard painted white with circles glued on top painted different colours and newspaper legs.

Science

Today at science they did stuff on electricity but I wasn't there because I had ballet practice. It sounded like lots of fun and I'm disappointed I missed it. Today we also did our goals. My goals were to know where my book was each week and to get more done in a day. I hope that by the end of the term I will have mastered those goals and will be able to do them easily next term.