Kaikoura Suburban School

Jen, from Enviroschools, and Ralph Hogan came and spoke to the Pukeko class about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling our rubbish to prevent too much residual waste (landfill waste).
We looked at the pyramid of rubbish and identified the important layer, the bottom layer, was to reduce the amount of packaging. We found that by buying in bulk we can reduce our packaging. Often we identified that the packaging could be reused and or recycled.
We kept our rubbish from yesterday and found there was only one piece of rubbish we couldn’t recycle. This was the plastic wrappers that have the silver lining. See photo for examples. The museli bar wrapper at the bottom of the photo we can reuse as it is a clear plastic.

Quotes from the students sharing their new learning:
Allie reflected, “Silver plastic wrappers can’t be recycled or reused. We need to find some without.”
Felix reflected, “Kaikoura allows us to recycle most of our plastic.”
Katie reflected, “Reduce means to buy in bulk to reduce the amount of rubbish and to reduce the cost.”
Hannah H reflected, ” We need to reuse our packaging more eg. plant seedlings, water bottles, food storage..”
James reflected, “Reduce is the most part of the ‘Rubbish pyramid.”
Stacey reflected, “Kaikoura people should be strict with their recycling to prevent our landfills filling up.”

It would be exciting to see all of our rubbish that leaves our school go into the recyclable bins with no rubbish for the landfill!

The senior Pukeko class have been learning about proceduaral text.  We have had fun seeing how these are a good text form to learn about kitchen chemistry. These are all the things we have made.

Icecream in a bag,  made glue and cheese from milk, fried green eggs by adding the natural juice of a red cabbage  to the egg white.  The natural juice is an alkaline which changed the egg from white to green.
Over the weekend we have had a hardboiled egg in vinegar.  As vinegar is an acid this reacted  with the calcium carbonate of the egg and it’s shell.  We found that the acid had totally dissolved the shell of the egg and the egg was bouncy.

We have broken into groups to share our own choice of kitchen chemistry.
One of the group made  rock candy and that is setting and forming crystals, another group has made  a folding egg, another group is going to make a lemonade volcano and another group made a speedy reaction with coke and mintos.

Kitchen chemistry is a cool way of learning about procedural text.

by Taylor and Hannah H

Katie preparing for the reaction

This week’s Hands-on homework task is to prepare a survival kit with mum or dad. With the recent earthquake in Christchurch I thought this would be an appropriate task.

If you click on the picture below it will show you a list of all the recommended items you will need.

I don’t have a survival kit so I’m going to complete the task as well. If you have already got one organised then don’t worry, you are sorted!

Pukeko class please take a photograph and bring to school. Come on everyone, lets get organised!

Year 6 - 2011

Hi I’m Cody and I’m 10 years old.  My goal is to work hard at my spelling in my writing and reading.  I feel proud being a leader at Kaikoura Suburban School.  I am a good role model at showing the school values: Fun, Organised, Respect, Communication and Excellence.
I hope I have a good year.

by Cody