Marita's (superactive teacher in our energy team) notes in November

In the 6th grade we had an enviromental theme in physics lessons on November. We measured about acidity and alkalinity. Then we learned about recyckling and waste. We had books which were some years old and we realized that some of the advices about recycling were old. So, recycling has been improving during some years. The best advices we found from the website: www.stormossen.fi We also discussed no to buy all that you want. We reminded pupils first to think that "Do I really need a new?" item as well as "What to do with all the things that are home without use?" Sometimes something that is left-over can be somebodys treasure. For example when one teacher drops her telephone to toalet bin, other teacher can recycle her old but quite good telephone to her colleague. ; )





We repaired some clothes during textile lessons in the beginning of this autumn with 6th grade pupils. First girls found it quite difficult to find something which needed to be prepared. Now suddendly some pupils still take some clothes to fix during lessons. As a textile teacher I´m very happy about the change of the attitude. Last week one girl took her winter jacket and sewed the pocket and one button and was so pleased. It was her favourite jacket and with just little work it is again ready to use.



The windows in our school has now new weatherstrips and we have already noticed that it is warmer inside though it has been colder outside. Let´s hope we can save from the energy that needs to be used to heat our school.


We were making cards to fathers and I was copying for my pupil. Other teacher was laminating some instructions and cut some plastic parts off the paper and put it to the wrong waste basket. I didn´t need to say anything; my pupil was quite demanding towards the other teacher to sort papers and plastic right.



25.11. we have a special day in Finland. The name for this day is "don´t buy anything". We will remind our pupils and their parents to take part in this!
http://www.alaosta.fi/


Our energy team has been working so active that we wanted to give them a surprise. We are going on a field trip to Pori. There is a special swimming hall that works with solar energy. So we will have fun and learning at the same time. We will hear how the hall works with the solar energy and then we will go swimming. More information about this you can find: http://yle.fi/alueet/satakunta/2011/09/porin_uusi_uimahalli_2890016.html