Sunday, March 31, 2019

Tread Lightly Caravan

We had a visit from Phil and Hannah from the Tread Lightly Caravan today. They came to talk to us about caring for the environment, the water we use and where it goes.


We learned about the wetlands and how they help the environment...
 


...and how pollution affects the environment.


We found out the different places water goes (down drains inside and outside)...

...and we even checked where the drains were around the school (until it got too wet).

After our learning we looked at different ways we could have a better impact on the environment and chose one to try out. Here are the choices:
  • pick up litter and put it in the correct bin
  • use the correct flush button on the toilet
  • turn off the tap when brushing teeth
  • wash the car on the grass
  • have short showers instead of baths 
  • join in on a tree planting or beach clean up day
  • use public transport instead of cars
  • teach family how to look after drains
  • walk, bike or scooter when travelling short distance
What one could you start doing?


4 comments:

  1. It was so much fun learning this with you, Haumia. I even went home and cleared the leaves out of one of my outside drains so the rain could easily flow to the sea! I think I am going to try having shorter showers now.

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  2. Hi Haumia, thanks for sharing your learning. I never really took notice of the leaves blocking the drains around our house before. This is one I will start doing.

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  3. Hi Haumia Nirvana-Jayde here. Thank yous for sharing your guys learning with us. by keep on learning amazing things.

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  4. Hi Haumia, It's Chimay here! It's lovely to see all the things you are learning and I hope you all had a great time at the caravan! What was your favourite part? Next time you could add more detail about the Virtual reality headset but apart from that, great post Haumia!

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