How Much Rubbish Do We Bring to School?

Our big questions this term for Inquiry is "How can we take care of our environment?". Today we saved all our trash in our lunch boxes and sorted it at the end of the day. We talked about the different categories we might need and made our chart. After it was all sorted we counted and tallied how many of each type of rubbish we had. We found out that as a class we had 38 pieces of rubbish. We talked about how that would really add up in a week, month, or year. Room 2 was able to tell me that we need to REDUCE the amount of rubbish we bring everyday. Maybe you can come up with some good ways to do this at home this weekend.