Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Following the success of our gift bag art project,

we have found another way to re-use some of our household

"rubbish"and turn it into something useful.

We used old newspaper to make waste-paper bins!

Our new bins can be used for clean,dry recyclables.

From empty carton to lovely gift bag.

• First get an empty juice or milk carton.



• Then you cut the top of it off.



• You wash and dry it.



• Next you get wrapping paper and cover the carton.



• Some people designed their own wrapping paper.



• You then punch two holes on each side.



• You use strings, shoe laces or scraps of ribbon to make handles.



• That's it! You have a gift bag

Spider hunt

Yesterday the 16/9/08 my class went outside to do a spider hunt. First we got a scooper and a pooter and went outside. A pooter is a plastic container with two straws for collecting minibeasts. We went looking behind the prefabs, on the grass, under trees, on the tree and in webs. When we had found some spiders we went to the other side of the school to look for more. We went around to the shed and got more spiders there and then we went inside. Back in the classroom we looked at the spiders and tried to identify them. Shane and Ronan found a spider in the bathroom! After that we went outside again and put the spiders back where we found them.

Tie-dying

On Friday the 8th of September our class took on the task of tie-dying our t-shirts. Here is a description of how we did it:

• Firstly, we each brought in a plain white t-shirt.
  
• Ms. Farrelly got different colour dyes from our local chemist. The colours included: Bahama Blue, Flamingo Pink, Sunflower Yellow, Dark Green and Denim Blue.


• We put pebbles from the school playground into the t-shirt and secured them with elastic bands. This would make the design.


• We placed six litres of warm water into a basin, and added six tablespoons of salt.


• Ms. Farrelly emptied the dye into the basin, and each of us put our t-shirts into it.
  
• We took turns stirring the t-shirts with a wooden ruler. After some time, we lifted our t-shirts out from the basin and put them in strong plastic bags.
  
• We had to remove the pebbles and elastic bands before putting them in the washing machine at home.
  
• The t-shirts came out lovely and we even modelled them on our PE day!!

Welcome to our Sixth Class Blog

Welcome to our new blog for sixth class. We hope to keep you up to date with all our activities during the year. Don't forget you can still access our fifth class blog at www.modhialann.blogspot.com