Room+5

Welcome to Room Five's page on Matakana School's Wastewise wikispace. During art this term we made a huge mural inspired by the work of Hundertwasser. Please look at our blog to read about Hundertwasser and find out about our amazing mural and Hundertwasser inspired houses. Thank you to Louise McRae for your inspiration and time you spent working with us in the classroom. Thank you to all the room 5 parents who helped prepare the backing sheets and worked with us in the classroom during this amazing project. matakana5-2010

23rd April 2010 Today we began our wastewise topic by brainstorming, sorting and labelling our ideas about waste.





//Our Big Experiment//

//We want to find out what happens to waste material over time.// //We have put some of our lunch waste into a bucket and buried it.// //Here are some of our Predictions.// The banana will rot and the big cracker will rot. The tin foil will not rot. The feijoa skin will rot. Brenna

I think the rubbish is going to go away. I think all the fruit is going underground. I think the other food is going to rot and get smelly. Sakura

When we take our rubbish out it will be all rotten. Not all the rubbish will be rotten. There is lots of rubbish. The rubbish will be stinky. Not all the rubbish will be stinky. The plastic bag will not be stinky. Stella

I think the feijoa will be rotten and it will be yucky. The mandarin will be rotten. I think the banana will be rotten and yucky. The up and go will have ants in it and it will be rotten and yucky. Luca

It might rot. It might turn to dust and it might stay like normal. It might disappear. The rubbish will be the ant’s food. Louie

If you bury tin foil for 4 weeks it will turn into a house with bugs and insects. If you bury a mandarin it will be the bug’s food. Kye

I think the food that we buried is going to disappear. I know that the feijoa peels are going to disappear. I don’t know what the yoghurt containers are going to do. I think it is going to be rotten and dirty and smelly and very black. Emma

Some of the food will rot and we will come and find only the plastic will just be starting to rot. The foil will be rotting. In two more weeks you can just about see the plastic. Anna

The food will be rotten and ants will come It will be smelly. The chip packet will be crushed. The yoghurt container will have ants. It will be smelly too. The tin foil and the plastic will be crushed. Charlotte

The food will rot. The aluminium will fall to pieces. I think nothing will happen to the plastic wrapper. Noa

The feijoas are going to rot. The mandarins are going to get mouldy and grow old. The crust is going to get dirty and mouldy. When the rice cake is all dirty and filled with dirt it will be smelly and dirty. Jade

We are going to bury some rubbish. Yoghurt, apples, little rippers and all sorts of things. The feijoas are going to be filled with ants and smell rotten and disgusting. Willow

I think in 4 weeks time when we uncover the soil the feijoa peels will turn into soil and all the rest of the fruit will turn into soil too. Eleanor

I think it will get stinky and dirty and mouldy. It will rot and be really dirty. If you leave it it will get stinkier. Reuben

You have all made thoughtful predictions. I can see that you know quite a bit about materials already. Now let's wait and see...... Mrs V



Now we know a little bit about waste and being wastewise we have a lot of questions. Here are some of our questions. We will try to answer them during our inquiry.



Here are some of our answers.













We would like to thank room 7 for sharing their knowledge about landfills with us. We wouldn't have been able to answer some of our questions without your help and you fabulous presentation about your trip to Redvale landfill. THANK YOU!!!!!

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