Friends - Recycling Initiatives

Last Thursday the team from Friends International came to visit the grade. They referred us back to our learning from our Urban Environments. We were showed ways in which they work with community to recycle old materials -creating jobs and beautiful products! We all tried rolling and gluing our own magazine offcuts into beads. Some of us got the hang of it...but it was fiddly work! Here are some pictures of us last week trying to create our own beads.

This week, we used some pre-made beads (created by the Friends experts) to make bracelets. We developed our mathematical literacy by first estimating how many beads their were. Groups were than asked to sort the beads out...some did this by shape, some by size, and others by colour.

Once they were sorted...children were asked to count them. At first groups tried counting them all...but soon found they needed a better system. Some made piles of ten and others sorted them into arrays. The trickiest part was then working out how many beads each group member could use for their bracelet. They applied their early division skills as they shared equally amongst the group.

When we finished with our investigation, we carefully threaded the beads onto elastic and made our own recycled paper bracelets. Here are the finished products!

What a fun Friday! Enjoy the long weekend everybody. We will see you back at school on Tuesday!