Room 4 Make Compost With Mrs White

Miss White is teaching us how to make our own compost. We are going to put it into the school gardens. It will take a month before it is ready.

Yummy stickers

All these stickers have come off pieces of fruit in Room 4! Each class puts the stickers on a chart. This saves them going in the school compost.

Used By And Best Before Dates

Do you know there is a difference between a Best Before and A Used By date?

Used By dates are for safety. You need to use food by this date or you could get sick.

Best Before dates are for quality. There are lots of food that you can use after this date. You just need to check the taste. If the food doesn't taste good or look good then don't eat it.

Check out this link if you want to know more

Click on this link to find out about Best Before and Used By Dates.

Unusual Fruit

We are learning about unusual fruit including persimmons, nashi pears, tamarillos and lemonade fruit. Do you know that tamarillos come from South America?

Drinking Kiwi fruit Juice

Room 7 Helping Room 12 With Compost

Limbrick House Make Lemonade

Today for science we used lemon juice and mixed it with baking soda to make carbon dioxide. We added water and made lemonade. This is a good thing to make if you have lots of lemons.

Let's Survey The Senior Team:

Let’s Survey The Senior Team….

Today we surveyed the senior team to

find out what fruit we had left at the end of the day in our lunch box and also what we did with the fruit when we got home.  This is what we found out:

· 22 people have  apples left over in their lunchboxes. This was the most popular.

· No one in the senior team have oranges left over in their lunchbox.

· 8 people have mandarins  left over in their lunchboxes.

· 4 people have pear in their lunchboxes.

· 8 people had a banana left over in their lunch box.

· 3 people had a feijoa left over in their lunchbox.

· 14 people had other fruit left over in their lunch box.

· 37  people senior eat their left  over  fruit when they get home.

· 4 people throw it away.

· 22 people make something with their left over fruit.

· 8 people put their left over fruit in the  compost.

· 13 people do something eels with their left over fruit.

· The bad news is 59 people in the senior team still have fruit in their lunchboxes at the end of the day.

· The good news is most people in the senior team either eat their left over fruit or make it into something else.

Our Letters About Our Lunches

We talked about the reasons why food is wasted:- Portion sizes that are too big, when we are given food that we don't like and food that is not stored properly so goes off.
We wrote to our parents to tell them about our lunches to save food and not waste it.

Junior Team Survey

Let’s Survey The Junior Team….

Today R2 surveyed the junior team to

find out what fruit they had left at the end of the day in their lunch boxes and also what we did with the fruit when they got home.  This is what we found out:

· The most popular fruits left over in lunchboxes from Room 9&10 was apple(5), Banana (4) and Feijoa (3).

· 6 people in Room 9&10 eat their left over fruit when they get home.

· 5 people in Room 9 & 10 throw their fruit away when they get home.

· The most popular fruit left over in their lunch boxes at the end of the day from R6 was apple (6).

· In R6, 6 people throw their leftover fruit away, 6 eat it and 6 put it in the compost.

· The most popular fruit left over in lunchboxes in R5 was apple (5).

· The bad news is 41 people in the junior team still have fruit in their lunchboxes at the end of the day.

· 13 children in the junior team eat their fruit when they get home.

Feijoas

Today Room 3ate feijoas, wrote about them and then put them in our class compost bin.

Is Food Wasted?

Room 4 looked in their lunch boxes after lunch and discussed the reasons why food was uneaten.

Team Assembly

Today at team assembly room 2 shared what they found in the school compost bin. They found lots of banana peels. Some people are putting whole fruit into the compost bin and not just scraps.

Introducing Waste Not...Want Not...

We found out our fruit scraps go into an ice cream container, then get collected in a big bucket and finally end up in a large compost bin in our school garden area. Remember Apple cores not whole apples!

Eating Fruits

Some children had not tried feijoas or pineapples. There are a lot of feijoas at the moment. We ate the flesh and the skins went in the class compost container.

R4 Visit The Compost Bin

Surveying The School

Today we surveyed the middle team to see what fruit they have in their lunch box at the end of the day and then found out what students do with this fruit when they get home.

Where Does Our Fruit Come From

Today in Room 2 we found out where our fruit comes from around the world.

Let's Survey The Middle Team..

Today we surveyed the middle team to

find out what fruit we had left at the end of the day in our lunch box and also what we did with the fruit when we got home.  This is what we found out:

· Lots of people in Room 2 have apples, bananas and feijoas left over in their lunch boxes.

· Nine people in Room 2 had fruit in their lunch boxes they could put in their compost bin.

· Most people in Room 2 eat the fruit that is left in their lunch box when they get home.

· 5 people in Room 3 have apples left over in their lunch box at the end of the day. This was the most popular fruit left over.

· 8 people in Room 3 eat their left over fruit when they get home.

· 5 people in Room 3 compost their fruit when they get home.

· No one in Room 2,3 and 7 throw their fruit away when they get home.

· In Room 4 6 people have a banana left over in their lunch box at the end of the day.

· 9 people in Room 4 eat their left over fruit when they get home.

· 5 people in Room 4 throw their left over fruit away when they get home.

· 4 people in Room 4 make something with the fruit they have left over in their lunch box when they get home.

· The most popular fruit that people in R7 have left over in their lunchbox at the end of the day is apple.

·  10 people in Room 7 eat their left over fruit when they get home.

· 7 people in R7 compost their left over fruit.

· The bad news is 66 people in the middle team still have fruit in their lunchboxes at the end of the day.

· The good news is most people in the middle team eat their left over fruit when they get home.