Blog week 5

This week, we are switching from collecting cardboard, to collecting plastic bottles. We got our video sent out to the principal. Hopefully, he will get all of the teachers to show their students. This one is a lot more advanced, and will draw the students in more than the last one. In the past week, we have collected a lot of non-cardboard materials. But in these next weeks, we hope that this announcement made it more clear to the school. We only want to collect plastic bottles in our bins, but the other items have still been good too. Our project is going very successful now that everything is actually “in play”.
 
Over the weekend, we had our paper drive in the parking lot of our school. We were doing that for another project along with ours. They plan to create flower pots out of newspaper for part of their project. When the time came, only one person in their group came and only two of my group went. It also started raining and no one came to drop off their papers. Even though we passed out papers to the whole neighborhood. We learned a lot from that experience. We need to plan our activities a little more.


For our pop bottle project, we got everything settled with the 3rd grade and art teachers. The kids will start making their "recycle bugs" on May 16th. So far, we have collected about 40 pop bottles from all the classes. Out of the three classes, only two have brought in bottles. One of the classes even brought in about 30 bottles at one time! All of our lessons are ready to be presented when they make the art activity. So far, this week has been the most successful out of all of them.