T-Shirt Bag making with Anouk

Today Anouk visited again and we were able to make some really cool bags out of old T-shirts.  This is teaching us to look for different ways to use things we have outgrown or no longer need.  Now we have some really cool Tog-bags.

To make our T-shirt bags we first had to cut off the sleaves.  This was really tricky and we had to learn how to cut not with the tip of our scissors but with the middle of the scissors.

Next, we cut off the neck hem so we were left with a cut edge (a raw edge).

After that, we cut tassels at the bottom of the t-shirt.

Finally, we tied knots to connect the sides.  This part was VERY tricky and many of us needed to practice tie-ing knots to start with.  Some of us opted to have the bottom of our bags sewn up on Anouks' machine.

We love having Anouk (our local environmental Educator) come and visit it.

(Thanks Photographer Hawaiki-Roa for the cool pictures).

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Paper Making with Anouk

Today Anouk visited us to help us learn about recycling and reducing our rubbish.  We had a great time making paper with her outside on the grass.  

First, we got the frame and added a picture frame on top.  Then we dipped it into the watery paper pulp and then lifted it out to drain.  We then took it over to the material strips and spent some time using a sponge to remove as much water as possible.  When we had got rid of as much as we could, we tipped the frame over so that the paper we were making was transferred onto the material.  We were then able to remove a little more water from our paper with the sponge. 

Once we had removed as much water as possible we hung them up to dry.  We can't wait to make cards to give to people out of them.

 

Maths Statistics Inquiries.

What a busy start to school we have had in Team Maunga.  Mrs G has been working hard to establish new routines to make using iPads in our class easier and while she was doing this she discovered some Statistics work that we had wanted to share (but it got lost in our old system).  So here it is

Children came up with ideas/topics to ask questions about.

Laylah continued on with finding out about how much plastic is brought to school in peoples lunchboxes.  This showed that in Team Maunga we don't bring much 'plastic rubbish' to school, with many children in Team Maunga not having any rubbish at all.  She found that in Team Awa there seemed to be more rubbish and in Team Moana there was LOTS.




So in Team Maunga we have decided to set a CHALLENGE!

We want to Challenge the other teams to beat us next time we do this survey.  Lets reduce our rubbish and keep our school looking fantastic!