Rubbish at St. Lukes!

A couple of weeks ago the Preps went for a walk around their local neighborhood to discover where rubbish is left in our streets. They were able to locate on a map where most of the rubbish was found.
Today the Preps decided to carry out an audit of rubbish found in their school grounds. The Preps chose to carry out the audit after lunch on a Monday because this is the day our school has lunch orders. They were amazed at how much rubbish the students of St. Lukes dropped on the ground!

They were left to ponder a couple of questions ~
Should our school be wrapper free?
How can the Preps encourage the students to put their rubbish in the appropritae bins?
Should we still have lunch orders?
Who should collect the rubbish left on our school ground?

We would love to hear what you think about rubbish at St. Lukes.

Here is a slideshow of the rubbish the Preps found in the school grounds.

Rubbish Around Our School on PhotoPeach

Get It Right On Bin Night

This website gives some great ideas on how we can recycle our waste. Please click on the link below and share this with your family.
http://www.getitrightbinnight.vic.gov.au/
Thank you Mrs Coffa for finding this and supporting our inquiry action!

Presenting Information In Another Way

Earlier this week we worked with a partner to collect data (we went outside and looked for animals and insects - see here) and recorded our information using tallies. When we had collected our data and counted our tallies then we organised our information into a graph.

We noticed:
(Hannah and Raph) Peoples graphs were very different.
(Eli and Sophia) There were different amounts of animals on the graphs.
(Zachary and Nyandit) There were a lot of some animals and not so much of other animals.  
(Mrs David) Some people started their graph from the top of the page and not at the bottom. We noticed that the information was the still the same.

Here are some of our tally sheets and graphs: Organising Data on PhotoPeach

Pictographs

In Maths this week we are learning how to collect and collate data. We have discovered how to keep a tally and we will use this information and present it in a pictograph. We had heaps of fun today going out and collecting data on the animals found in our school ground.

Collaborative Circle Time at St. Luke's

Every couple of weeks our school gets in to collaborative groups for Circle Time. Each group has children from all classes, Prep to Year 6, in them. During this time we have the opportunity to listen to each other and share how we feel about certain issues. Our focus for this week's Circle Time was 'Rules'. We had the opportunity to share how we felt about rules and why we think we need them. We worked with our collaborative group to investigate our school rules and draw or write what we thought they meant. This is one way our school is trying to improve respect amongst our students and providing them with an opportunity to see their school friends in a different setting. Collaborative Circle Time at St. Luke's on PhotoPeach

Dancing Preps

Over the next couple of weeks, the Preps will be learning how to dance during our Friday sport sessions. Dancing is wonderful exercise for our body, and our brain, as we need to remember all the cool moves! We had so much fun dancing last Friday. We learnt the Mexican Hat Dance and the Heel Toe Polka. We bowed to our dancing partner at the start and end of each dance to thank them for dancing with us. Which dance should we learn next?

Dancing from Learning Together on Vimeo.

Having Fun With Our Buddies

Today our buddies came in to our classrooms to be part of our Developmental Learning activities. We had heaps of fun making puppet shows, dressing up, playing trains, colouring in and learning on the computer with them! This was a great time to get to know our buddies even better. We discovered that our buddies love to dress up! Having Fun With Our Buddies on PhotoPeach

Measuring Length

We have been using different units to measure the length of objects in our room. We have discovered that when we measure an object the length of the unit has to be the same to get a 'true' measure. We have also found out that our units have to touch each other and we leave no gaps in between. We had fun measuring the length of our snakes. Having Fun Measuring Length on PhotoPeach

Litter Detectives!

For our Inquiry this term we are looking at how we can make a difference to the environment by reducing landfill through reusing and recycling.

Today we were Litter Detectives and went for a walk around our neighbourhood to see if we would find any rubbish. Luke, Hannah and Aly had a map of our streets and when we saw some rubbish they marked it on the map. We took photos of the kinds of rubbish that we saw.

This is what we discovered:

There was no rubbish around the shops at the end of our street. We think that might be because there were two rubbish bins for people to put their rubbish in.

The other streets around our school looked very clean and rubbish free.

In the street that our school is on, we saw quite a bit of rubbish and we were surprised. We think the rubbish was there because

• there are no rubbish bins in the street
• people have dropped their wrappers and containers
• the wind may have blown it out of rubbish bins
• the rubbish has fallen out of bins when the garabage collector has picked up the bins

We looked at the rubbish and we thought that some of the rubbish had been on the street for a long time. Some of the bottles and plastic containers should have been put in the recycling bin.

We have a problem!

What can we do to help clean up our street?

Please let us know your ideas!

Preps, talk to your families and friends and see if you can find an answer to our problem.
 

Here are some photos of our discoveries: