Things just keep getting greener....

This morning we had two fabulous guest speakers from Funky Junk come and talk to us about their amazing recycled products. 

They shared with us how the products are made and how they are helping the environment. All the products are made from plastic bags! 

This is helping to keep a huge amount of waste out of the landfills and reusing them for beautiful furniture, bags, pencil cases and many other things. We learnt that one small cushion takes 600 plastic bags to make and the large cushions are 1200 plastic bags! 

Take a look at the slideshow:

Poems

After our guest speakers we went back to our class and talked about different ways to be 'green'. Then I asked the children just about the colour green. What does the colour make them think about? What things are green? 

I showed the children a great poem about the colour yellow. 

Yellow

Yellow tastes like a sweet pineapple,

Yellow smells like a yucky banana,

Yellow sounds like a flying duck,

Yellow looks like a shiny sunset,

Yellow feels like a hard drink bottle,

Yellow is my favourite colour.

Then in groups the children were given a piece of paper with the word green in the middle. They then had to draw or write all the things they knew were green or made them think of green. They came up with some many fantastic things and next week in the same groups they will be writing a poem together. I am really excited to see what they come up with.

Buddies

Our buddies came to visit us as well this morning. This week they helped us make our recycled garden. We took all the bottles that were in our recycled box and turned them into bottle pots. We planted lots of new plants and hung them from the trees outside our class and made a rockery by the gate on street 370. 

We talked how to look after plants and what they need. We have made sure we have given our plants a nice big drink of water for the weekend!

Finally
A few notices:
Assembly 
This coming Friday 27th March at 7:45am.

Book Day - April 2nd
Children are to come dressed as a character from a book. If possible they should also have the book with them.

Student-Led-Conferences
April 3rd - No school, you only need to come at the given time to share with your child their learning. You would have received a letter to from your child.

Have a great weekend everyone