How My Family Helps the Environment
We recycle at our house. We recycle cardboard, tins and plastic. We also have a food-scrap bin and then we compost it. We have heaps and heaps of trees in our paddock and they turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. Sometimes we walk to school because cars let out greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Mum tells us to have showers instead of baths because it saves water and we use less power. That's how we help.
Written by Riley Nelson
At home my family recycles cardboard, tins, tin lids, milk bottles, paper and glass so then they turn into something else, e.g. an old beer bottle can be turned into a new beer bottle. We're also going to plant lots of trees. They will produce oxygen. We take the bus to school and Dad walks down the driveway and takes the Taradale High School van the rest of the way. Mum tries not to use the car so much so then she's not producing too much greenhouse gas. We have a worm farm and a compost. We put food scraps in them. That is how my family helps the environment.
Written by Sophie Wood
We help by recycling our rubbish by having a paper bin, glass bin, tin bin and a plastic bin. I help by turning off the lights and T.V. when we leave to go somewhere or when we're not using them. Mum helps by using the dishwasher and washing machine only when it's full. This saves water and power. We all help by turning the tap off while we brush our teeth. I hand my clothes down to my cousins and when a tree dies we plant a new one. Trees are important because they give us oxygen and keep the air clean. When we have drunk up all the water in our water bottle we reuse the bottle by filling it up again instead of putting it in the bin. It's like recycling. We don't bury or burn our rubbish because it makes greenhouse gases.
Written by Greer Tremain
At home my family recycles because dumping our rubbish all together could kill living nature. We recycle tins, glass, cardboard boxes, glad-wrap and paper. We should recycle because if we don't worms, fish, dolphins and all living creatures will die. Recycling means all those things can be used again. Another way we could help is we could bike, walk, take a bus or run when we don't really need to use the car. We have lots of trees at home so when we use coal for our fires all the carbon will turn into oxygen. That's how my family helps the environment.
Written by Molly Lawson
My family doesn't really help the environment. Me and Dad use the loader and the digger to rip out plants and burn them with not a tree around so we make G.H.G. Soon we are getting a bulldozer and it will do a lot of work so it will make lots of G.H.G. We own six trucks and they haul heavy loads. We do about 60 loads a week and that's more G.H.G. We use the ute to go across the road and my sister and I have long baths.
G.H.G. = Greenhouse Gases.
Written by Luke Loader
At home we help the environment by checking all the lights are turned off when we go out. We recycle and have a bin for plastic, glass, paper and cardboard. We each have an important job. Theo has to turn off all the lights and the T.V., I make sure all the bits we have to recycle are in the right bins, Mum takes it to the dump and Dad doesn't really do anything because he isn't here that much. Mum says we need to plant more trees because they give us oxygen and keep the air clean. When we brush our teeth we put some water on the brush and then we turn the tap off, put on the toothpaste and that is way you can save water. With our food scraps we put them in the compost. In our family I am the oldest child and because I am a girl and Theo is a boy, he won't want to wear my girly, pink clothes, so I give my clothes that don't fit me to Alex Hickey's little sister Nicole. Another thing is if you want to recycle your clothes you should put them in a clothing bin. If you are on a powered device and you are finished with it, don't just turn it off any old how, turn it off at the wall! To save using gas, car-pool with neighbours, e.g. last year my two neighbours the White's and the Hansen's, we car-pooled together because Jamie, Theo and Mac all went to pre-school together. So Mum, Sharron and Jen did it because it would not only save gas, but it wouldn't give out as much gases as three cars would. So car-pool to help our environment! Plant a tree, save power and water, car-pool and help save the environment!!!
Written by Olivia Munialo
A couple of recounts of a performer who came to our school.
Elgregoe the Amazing Magician
There was a boom at school. Elgregoe appeared in a flame of dust. He was an amazing magician. He did magic with his wife Sue. There was a colourful bird named Zazu. He was my favourite bird in the show. Another bird called Ruby was very funny. She hung upside down and swung from Elgregoe's hand. My favourite part of the show... when Tom went up on stage and got to be New Zealand's Greatest Magician. Sue put a cloak on Tom. Elgregoe put his arms into Tom's sleeves and started to do magic tricks for everyone. At the end of the show he had water in a pot and he tipped it into a bucket and said, "the water won't stop pouring and we won't stop caring" - a tip of water is a call for help. He had a puppet called Nico. To make Nico talk he did a ventriloquist act and he was very funny. Elgregoe came to stop bullying. His message for everyone was to use your WITS - Walk Away, Ignore, Talk to Someone and to Say Stop.
Written by Amber Morice
Vroom! An incredible magician called Elgregoe arrived in his van. He works for Trust Power by being a magician!
The day Elgregoe and his wife Sue came was on Tuesday, 27 May. The first thing that he did was he pulled a pool stick out of his pocket! My favourite bit of the show was the bucket sitting on the side of the stage that kept filling up with water after every trick.
Elgregoe was trying to give us a message. The message was to stop bullying and help...respect, care, be responsible, accept peoples differences and be trustworthy.
I think I know how he did one of his tricks. Let me tell you. Sue held up one side of a sheet. Elgregoe held the other. There was a parrot flapping behind the sheet. Elgregoe pulled the parrot out. "Ta ta!" (not)
So that's how the afternoon ended.
Written by Stanley Easthope
