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Revised Recycling Routine

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We’re recycling more than ever! We are trying to reduce our waste & bring litterless lunches. We still return drink boxes & bottles for refunds. We recycle paper, and we compost our food scraps. There are more mixed containers we can recycle now (even takeout coffee cups!). And with the Recycle BC’s new pilot program for soft plastics and a wonderful volunteer to deliver those items as well as our Styrofoam, we have almost nothing left to send to the landfill.

Our new containers for our hallway stations are making things easier, but we are still learning what to put where. Do you know what to do with your waste at school? Test yourself with this little sorting game. (If you see a warning about Flash, click the link & click “Allow” so the game will run. On the Scratch Website, you can play the full screen version, look inside at the code or even try your own remix.)

Making Rectangles

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Making Rectangles

We’ve tried some cooperative challenges over the last couple of weeks. In the most recent, teams of four students each had to make four identical rectangles from a set of sixteen different shapes. The catch was that no one was allowed to use their voice nor to make any gestures. Team members could give a piece to another person if we thought it would help them, but we could not reach over and take a shape from someone else.

All of the teams were successful at working very silently. Some managed to make four identical rectangles; some did not. But while the task was to make the rectangles following the rules, the overall goals were to: 

  • Respond to the needs of others
  • Help others to do things for themselves

I’m wondering how students felt during the activity; what helped; and how well the students feel they did at meeting these two overall goals.

Haiku

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Haiku is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. Here is one that I made.

Ryan The Lion                                                                                                                    His name is Ryan                                                                                                              He pretends he is dyin’                                                                                                      Beware he is lyin’

 

 

Wasted Food And Spoiled Food

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Today I read an article called ‘What A Waste! 2017\2018 issue 1. It was about food waste and now I am going to explain the difference of food being wasted and food being spoiled.

Before I used to think food being wasted was more worse than food being spoiled but when I read this article I realised that I was wrong very wrong. The difference of spoiled food and wasted food is this.

The article said that wasted food is not a huge problem in developing countries a bigger problem is food getting spoiled. I remember an experience I had when I was in the Philippines. When I was looking at some food in a market I noticed that tons of them were getting spoiled, something that relates to this in the article is that it said that in India 30 to 40 percent of food gets spoiled before it reaches consumers. The actual difference is that wasted food is extremely (I am probably exaggerating a tiny bit) good food thrown away.

Spoiled food is food that has rotted\ got rotten\ that got spoiled, and that means that you cannot eat it anymore and you have to throw it away.

 

If you want to read it yourself the article is called ‘What A Waste! 2017\2018 issue 1’ that is just in case you want to read it yourself.

 

That brings a conclusion to this topic thank you for reading it!

What An Waste

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Today we read an article about “Food Waste”

It was about how people wasted so many food, and did you know we actually waste three times more than all the human in the world’s weight. I think it’s a really bad idea for people to keep on wasting food, we really need so stop and if we don’t we will hurt our own plant that might be the only plant we can live on! I agree who ever made this article, it is really powerful! It could tell everyone to stop wasting food, SO WE CAN STILL LIVE ON OUR PLANT! Just image   how gross if all the waste food is in your food scraps bin, is it really gross I would agree yes it is, but it’s not actually all whoever is waste food. I want to say that think before you make a meal is it going to be to less food or enough food or do you have to waste food just because you made to many food, Now back to food wasting if you waste food guess what’s going to happen, it going to go to the food scraps bin and then it is gonna go to a big hole which is a landfill, and guess what they are not going to do even thing about it! They are just going to leave it, but the good thing is that they can get eaten be decomposed, but you think it’s a good thing actually good to leave food in the landfill? Thing about that. The food that you waste is a giant problem it is gross but think about Mother Nature we    are killing Mother Nature by wasting food and also just like garbage I don’t want to waste food maybe you guys too but if you want to prove it that we are not making our Mother Nature dirty DO IT BY YOUR ACTIONS!

 

What A Waste! Article review

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Today i read a article about Food going to waste. It’s called what a waste! What in the world 2017/2018:issue 1. I was surprised when i saw there are 1.3 trillion kilograms of food wasted every year and there are still about 800 million people hungry.I really think that food going to waste is wrong Its not good because some people are not getting enough while others are getting too much and throwing it away. In 2050 we will have about 2 billion more people. When that happens we will have more food to waste.what will we do about it? I think that we should stop throwing out food away it is fresh or leftovers. They shout make a stand that serves food from other restaurants that are still good and fresh. Food uses a lot of resources. Did you know that agriculture uses 70 percent of all freshwater humans consume per year. It also produces up to 35 percent of human greenhouse gas emissions. The top offenders of food thrown out are the U.S., Canada,Australia and new Zealand. I think that food will become a problem if we continue the job that we are doing right now.The difference between wasted and spoiled. wasted means that you probably have some food that is perfectly fresh and you throw it away.Spoiled is when the food becomes bad and you have to throw it away.I think that food is necessary to survive but wasting it can lead to bad results.