York Valley Landfill

After a class visit to the Re-cycling Centre and the Re-use Centre off Pascoe Street, we finished our field trip by driving up to the Landfill at York Valley to see what happens to Nelson's trash that can't be re-cycled or re-used.

OOOH!! POOH!! STINK!! YUCK!! WHO MADE ALL THAT RUBBISH??!!

After watching the machines at work and rubbish trucks dumping their loads we were able to ask Kevin Nilsen the manager of the landfill, our inquiry learning questions. Kevin answered our questions and told us many interesting facts about the landfill. We learned lots - one of the fascinating things is that the smelly methane gas that is formed by the compacting and decomposing of the rubbish is piped to Nelson Public Hospital where it is used for heating the whole of the hospital.

ROOM 13 SURE WERE IMPRESSED BY THE YORK VALLEY LANDFILL!!

Recycling Paper in Room 13

Our buddy class, Room 8, has been showing us a good way to use our waste paper. They know all about how to recycle paper to use in a variety of interesting ways.

Firstly, industrious fingers shredded the waste paper into tiny pieces, lots & lots!

After soaking the paper in water, Freya used her food processor to pulverise the sodden paper.
The resulting squishy product was tipped onto a framed mesh sieve and dipped into water dye. It was then forced down to squeeze out as much liquid as possible.


Finally the coloured recycled, dyed squishy paper was turned onto O.H.P. transparencies and carefully sponged to absorb as much of the liquid as possible. Then they were all placed on shelves to dry.

Next term, Rooms 8 and 13 are going to make something creative with the results.

Cross Country Races

After fitness and aerobic training - power walking and jogging, for weeks the day of the Cross Country races was full of excitement, competition and pushing oneself to do our best. The first of these two photos shows Holly at the start of the 7 year old girls race where she finished a most creditable 2nd especially seeing she ran a slightly longer route and had a fall on the way! The second photo is Karli at the start of the 6 year old girls race where she finished an easy 1st. Well done girls! And congratulations to all Room 13 competitors, you were fast, fit and fantastic.

Stained Glass Window Displays

Room 13 children have made a creative, artistic stained glass window display. The ideas and the work were started at the Museum when we visited to listen to the stories and view the real stained glass windows which depict flora and fauna indigenous to New Zealand. We like the way our art works are highlighted by the morning sun. If we close the curtains they look like shadow puppets.

Autumn Leaves

Room 13 children have been lucky this autumn being surrounded by liquid amber trees. Who needs a structured playground when glorious coloured leaves are fluttering around, and can be scrunched, thrown, built into forts, hidden beneath and used in any number of creative ways!

This term we are learning all about tips for Saving the Planet!

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