Dear Parents, Family and Whanau ,
During the month of April all the teachers and
children at Hannah’s House have been on a top secret
project. Yes secretly on a mission to help better our
planet! What inspired me to start this was the day I
At the start of the year the staff all
opened up a child’s lunch box to find one biscuit
sat down as a team and talked about
coated
their personal goals. My goal was to cut
GLADWRAP! So over the month of April we all
out or decrease the amount of glad wrap
collected our glad wrap and kept it in one of these...
we
were
using
and
become
in
this
non
eco
friendly
lunch
wrap,
more
environmentally friendly. Putting those
three R’s to use
Reduce Reuse Recycle
The day came to see actually how much glad
wrap our centre was throwing away. The bin was
full! It was a shock to see actually how much
glad wrap we would throw away
1 month = 1 65 litre bin
6 months = 6 x65 litre bins a total of 390 litres
1 year = 12 x65 litre bins a total of 780 litres
If that’s not enough to shock you then read on...
How long do you think it would be if we tied all these
bits of glad wrap together?
Ruby “Bigger than the world”
Troy “No! As big as a giant!”
Charlie “It will be 100,000 kilometres long”
Max “it will take 2001 years to make it”
After some talking they decided they were
going to measure it with some rulers...
And after trying so very hard to measure it
they decided it was just too big!
After some more talking we decided we would see
how many times it would go around the playground.
Troy “5 times”
Max “lots and lots of times”
Ruby “This many” (holding up 7 fingers)
Charlie “I think it will go 3 times”
So we nearly made it from the gate over the sand pit down to the bottom fence round the trees past the
veggie garden over the bridge and almost back to where we had started. What a lot of glad wrap! With
some clever thinking they all joint hands and made it back to gate! Great job!
Throughout this experience we talked and learnt about our environment and what the rubbish we throw
away does to our world. We talked about what we could use instead of glad wrap and where all our
rubbish goes when we put it in the bin. This lead to talking about what we could do with our food scraps
instead of throwing them in the rubbish.
Look out in next month’s newsletter to see our solution to this issue!
So our challenge to you and everyone in your family,
think about your child’s future and what it means to
you. One little thing like cutting out glad wrap from
your weekly shop will help better our environment for
our future generation.
There are many other options than glad
wrap such as.....
Did you know the total
waste to reach landfill
in Auckland alone
would fill a rugby field
and go as high as a 10
story building each
MONTH!
Websites:
www.createyourowneden.co.nz
www.4myearth.co.nz
www.tupperware.co.nz
Send us in a photo, post it on facebook or drop one in of you and your
child doing something to help our world! It could be recycling, starting
up your own worm farm, composting, or gardening, anything that helps
our environment!
Get creative have fun and learn about all the great things we can do
for our environment!
You can enter as many photos as you like but you only have one month
so get busy!
At the end of the month we will draw out a winner who will receive this
News Letter by Sam
basket full of goodies to help you, help our world!
May 2012