Reduce Reuse Recycle

We learned about recyling, reusing and reducing. It is important because animals get stuck in our litter, we could use up our resourses.

You can reduce by 1. buy fewer throw away things 2. don't buy things you don't need 3. use cloth shopping bags 4. don't get junk mail

You can reuse by 1. use food containers again 2. give your unwanted things away 3. compost food scraps

You can recycle by 1. take your things to a recycling center


WEEKS: loose leaf paper 2-4
most vegetable peels 2-5
MONTHS: cotton T-shirt 1-5
orange peel 6
YEARS: woollen sock-1
woollen sweater3-5
paper plate 5
plastic bag 10-20
painted wood 13
plastic film container : 20-30
leather shoe: 25-40
nylon parka: 30-40
rubber boot: 50-80
steel can: 100
aluminum can: 200-500
plastic cup: 250
plastic six pack holder: 450
disposable diaper: 500
glass bottle: 1,000,000 YEARS
plastic bottle: 1,000,000 YEARS
NEVER: polystyrene foam cup: NEVER
this is from the book Household Waste by Kate Walker

Isn't this picture sad. Never litter a plastic bag because a stork might get caught in it.


Other animals can too like this turtle.

Garbage can get into the ocean and hurt animals there too. Once I saw a penny in the water and animals like ducks can swallow them.

I forgot this gross one

I also read this book. It was about a group of pioneers trying to get to California. They had to hurry because winter was coming. One person thought they had a shortcut and they took it even though one woman didn't want to. It ended up NOT being a shortcut. They got stuck in snow storms, people froze and starved to death and eventually they "used what God provided". At first I didn't understand what that meant. But then I discovered that they actually had to eat some of those that passed away. There were only a handful of people that lived to get to California because of the bad weather.

What I have been reading (Georgia)

This book was about a young man that snuck into the Lewis and Clark expedition. He didn't want anyone to know so he hid for a while. Finally one day he showed himself and because he could write Lewis wanted him to write things down for him to be sent back to President Thomas Jefferson. Lewis studied animals and plants. They were trying to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean.

In this book Sofia goes to America. When she gets to Ellis Island they put her in quarantine because they think she has an eye disease. She met a friend named Maureen who was Irish. Sofia was very scared and worried not knowing where her parents were. I bet her parents were very scared also.

Sofia's family moves to north Boston. It's hard for her family to start new. Her mother makes tortellini and sells it to make ends meet. Sofia has to go to school and Gabriella, her older sister has to be in the same grade which doesn't make them happy. Her teacher and a doctor ask her what she wants to do with her life. Sofia has never thought about that before. She learns that here in America you can be whatever you dream of being.

On the trail to Oregon Jedediah losing his family. He decided to continue on without them and is adopted by another family but they aren't very nice to him. Well Mr. Henshaw isn't but Mrs. Henshaw is. Every time they have to cross a river, which was very dangerous to do with wagons, he gets really scared because that is how his parents and sister died. He finally makes it to Oregon and he is happy becuase this was his parents dream.

His uncle went to the "Golden mountain" during the gold-rush. He is from China and they thought there was a real mountain of gold. When he got to California he realized it wasn't the case. They had to work hard and hardly ever found gold. They thought they were going to be rich to help their family back in China but instead they found out people were bad and stole and even killed to get the gold they dug. People were mean to him and told him he should go back to China.

Happy Birthday Great Grandma!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREAT GRANDMA H. I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY. WE LOVE YOU!

LOVE, GEORGIA, JOSIE, EMELINE, AND MARGIE SUE

brad and jenny too!!

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My America Westward to Home

Title: Westward to Home , Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary (Book one)

Author: Patricia Hermes

Characters: Pa and Ma, Joshua, his little sister Becky, Uncle Arther, Aunt Lizzie, Rachel (Lizzies baby), Charlie (Joshua's cousin), Grampa.

Setting: They start from Missouri and travel down the Oregon Trail to Oregon where they live in tents.

Summary: This book is about Joshua McCullough traveling on the Oregon trail to Oregon. It is very hard for him and when little Rachel gets hurt and dies under the wagon he takes more and more carde of Becky. Many people die of cholera and accidents. They forded many waters which were scary moments. For example Becky fell in one of the rivers and Joshua jumped in after her. They are lucky they both didn't drown. Some people did drown though. It was hard for the oxen to travel that far and even they died too. The people had to leave some of their belongings along the trail to make it easier for them. Eventually they reached Oregon to start a new home.

Neptune

Who or what was Neptune named after?

Neptune was named after the mythical Roman God of the seas.

How far is Neptune from the sun?

Neptune is 2,795,084,800 miles from the sun.

What is Neptune's diameter?

Neptune is 30,775 miles in diameter.

What is the temperature on Neptune?

The average temperature on Neptune is -353 degrees F.

How many moons does Neptune have?

Neptune has 13 known moons 8 are named:Naiad,Thalassa,Despina,Galatea,Larissa,Proteus,Triton,andNereid.

How long is a year on Neptune?

A year is 60,190 Earth days.

How long is a day?

A day is 16 hours and 7 minutes.

What are some important facts about Neptune?

Neptune has a Great dark spot discoverd in 1989.In 1994 the Hubble space Telescope discoverd it dissapered.Neptune has three rings.

What is the composition of Neptune?

Neptune is another gas planet made mostly of hydrogen and helium.

What is the air like on Neptune?

The outer layer is about 80% hydrogen and 19 percent helium with a little of methane, ammonia and water ice. The next layer is a super heated liquid of water, ammonia, and methane, mostly. The core is mostly made of iron and nickel.

How much do I weigh on Neptune?

I would weigh more on Neptune than on earth. I would weigh 66, Josie 49, Emmy 27 and Margie 13.

Uranus

Who or what was Uranus named after?

Uranus was named after the British astronomer William Herschel and was later called Uranus.

How far is Uranus from the sun?

It's 1,700,000,000 miles from the sun.

What is the diameter of Uranus?

Uranus is 31,690 miles in diameter.

What is the temperature like on Uranus?

The average temperature is -357 degrees F.

How many moons does Uranus have?

Uranus has 27 moons here are some of the moon's names: Cordelia,Ophelia,Bianca,Cressida,Desdemona,Juliet,Portia,Rosalind,Belinda,1986U10,Puck,Miranda,Ariel,Umbreil,Titania,Oberon,Caliban,and Sycorax.

How long is a year on Uranus?

A year on Uranus is 30,687 Earth days or 84 Earth years.

How long is a day?

A day on Uranus is 17 hours and 15 minutes.

What are some important facts about Uranus?

Uranus has 11 faint rings made of rock and dust.The cool methane gas gives Uranus it's blue- green color.

What is the composition of Uranus?

It is mostly made up of different ices like water ammonia and methane. It probably has three layers - an outer layer of hydrogen and helium gas, an icy mantle and a small inner core of rocky material.

What is the air like on Uranus?

The atmosphere of Uranus is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane.

How much do I weigh on Uranus?

I would weigh 51 pounds, Josie 38, Emmy 21 and Margie 10