Welcome back for term 3

Welcome back to all our Plateau Kiwis. It was great to be back at school and to hear all the exciting things you got up to during the holidays. 

For this term we are going to be exploring the concept of making paper bricks for our fires at home. Plateau school is an enviro school so we will be recycling our old newspapers into bricks that we can burn in the fire. 

This will also be part of our technology focus as we look to find the best method to make the bricks and then looking into the best way to distribute and market them. 

Here are some photos of our work so far today.

Here we are ripping up the newspaper into small pieces so we can soak it in water. The paper will
need to soak for about 3 days. Nice to be sitting out in the sun today.

We have also made a title page in our big blues books so we can record our findings and work throughout of brick making.

 

We have filled our container and added water, now we need to wait for 3 days before we move onto the next step.

Keep watching our blog to see our progress.