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 Wastewise Welcome to our class wiki page. This term you can visit this page to view some of our learning about our topic of study: Wastewise. You will be able to view photos and work by the children in Room 4. We hope you enjoy what we have to share! ​Meet Rex, he will be following us during our learning journey. We checked the meanings for waste, wise, recycle, reuse and reduce in our class dictionary. A better understanding of these words will help us with our study! We brainstormed all of our ideas about waste and wrote down all the different types of waste we could think of.

For homework we collected some of our house hold rubbish. We brought it to school to sort. We had to think about what type of material each item was made from.



And so the inquiry begins! We have many questions to investigate. For example:
 * Why should we recycle and minimise our waste?
 * What is waste and what happens to it?
 * How does a landfill work?
 * What can be recycled, composted and put into landfills?

"OK everyone" said Mrs Kearns one day after lunch..."I want you to go and get your lunch boxes out, we are going to make a mini land fill from our rubbish".



We put dirt, then fruit, plastic, cans, paper, glad wrap, cans and food scraps into a large clear container and then covered it with soil. We will watch it other the next six week and see what happens to our lunch waste! We all wrote predictions about what we thought might happen.

The children have selected an inquiry question to investigate. Here are some of their answers:

Name: Alexa Inquiry Question: How does a landfill work? Notes Written By Alexa: It is a big hole for rubbish. It has clay at the bottom and odrt at the top. If we keep putting in heaps of landfills, it is going to kill our earth.

Name: Accalia Inquiry question: What happens to glass when it is finished with? Notes Written By Accalia: Sort the glass into different colours. It can be collected in bottle banks. It is crushed and melted to make new glass.

Name: Hugo Inquiry question: What can be put in a recycle bin? Notes Written By Hugo: You can put plastic bottles, shampoo bottles, paper cans, glass, paper and cardboard. You cannot put bananas, food, toys, petrol containers and chemicals.

A Note from Mrs Kearns:

"I am so pleased with the information you found to answer your inquiry questions children. You all illustrated your work beatifully as well!

Below is a photo of some of the cats you made for the Wastewise School Exhibition.