Reduce, reuse, refuse and recycle!

Well we're right back into it in Room 2!

We began the week with a visit from Mark, the Manager of Fresh Choice Nelson. We learnt about the use of plastic bags in their store and the ways they are trying to be more environmentally friendly. Did you know that they use potato starch trays in their produce section and they are hoping to be the first store in NZ have reusable and biodegradable bags made out of Cornstarch!  We learnt that between Atawahi and Enner Glyn we use 3.6 million bags per year!  

Then on Thursday again thanks to the organisation of several Room 1 students some of us listened to Matt Lawry from the Green Party. He talked about some of the initiatives here in Nelson and changes that we can make.

Today we visited an exhibition at NMIT put together by Rose Sheppard and our very own art extension students Arlo, Grayson, Meg and Tilly.

Week 10!

This week we celebrated some of what we have been learning in class with whanau during our student led conferences.  

As part of this we shared our pepehas in front of our whanau.  You can see below Chloe modelling our class Korowai.  We each decorated feathers with things that represent us such as our mountains and our rivers. Sally's Mum very kindly sewed it all together for us.

For the last two weeks in Reading we have had a focus on Matariki. As part of this we read stories and watched videos about Matariki and the Maori game Kio-O-Rahi. We then had fun making up our own plays and making a movie about how to play Kio O Rahi. You can see one of our Matariki plays below

Way to go to our very own Caitlin who has had her Letter to the Editor published in our local newspaper. We recently had a representative come and speak to us about Boomerang Bags.  Caitlin started writing this letter as part of one of our writing workshops. Way to go Caitlin!

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