Question of the day #6

Yes, i said #6. Sorry! I had a total brain fart and accidently skipped 3 and wrote 4 on the third question of the day, so yesterday's question was really question #5. So, down to buisness...
Q: Going back to yesterday's question, (see below)how many of those trash cans that you said we could get rid of do you think we could replace with recycling bins?
A: Scarlett: 4
Alyssa: 2 or 3
Callie: 3 or 4
Mrs. Frizzle: 6
Candy: 7
Alice: 7
Audrey: 6
Marie: 5
Michael: 6
Once again, really sorry I put question 4 insted of quetion 3 the other day. This quiestion realy is question #6. Oh, by the way, whil your still using your computer, check out these blogs:
www.gogussociety.blogspot.com
www.unfairproblems08.blogspot.com
www.loopyme10896.blogspot.com
The first one is kind of like this one, about the problems with today's society. The second on is my entire classes' and it's about the election. the last one is my first blog and it's usually just funny stuff I find on the internet. = P

Question of the day #6

Q: Righ now, we throw away between 12 and 15 garbage cans worth of garbage every week. How many trash cans do you think we can reduce that to?
A: Mrs Frizzle: 6
Alice: 5
Candy: 5
Audrey: 5
Callie: 6
Alyssa: 7-8
Michael: 6
Maire: 6

I don't know if you read my post from yesterday, and if you did, you probably didn't finish reading it so...read it because its really awsome information!

Did you know?

See, look, Earth is saying "Help Me!"  I was watching this show on tv. earlier and I found out some interesting stuff.  You know how Thomas Edison invented the incondescent (sp?) light bulb?  Turns out that his light bulb works just like a toaster. 90% of the energy produced by light bulbs is heat.

Each American uses 5 trees worth of paper in a year; and I mean big, tall trees, not little tiny ones.  American throw away 428,000 cell phones per day.  Americans throw away so much paper that we could stack sheets of paper on top of eachother to create a 12 foot tall wall that reaches 3,000 miles from New York City to Las Angeles.  That's 36,000 sheets per column.

And, we aren't just wasteful with natural resources liek paper and oil, it's also food.  think about how many animals are slaughtered to make food that we human beings buy but don't always eat beacause it "expires" before we get a chance to eat it. This country has a lot of problems liek obeisity.  If people stopped eating fast food in front of the tv., they could cook for themselves to create a healthier meal and then, they could watch tv. some other time and go on a walk of play with their family or friends.  (Unless of course, you don't have friends and you live alone...)  

personally, I believ that their is one universall solution to all of our countries problems.  People could stop driving and walk, carpool, take the bus, or even ride yor bike.  Adding that excercise in with your daily commute to whearever you need to go might prevent you from becoming abeise; same with the drive-thru food.  If you stop eating it, you cuold eat at home instead and save gas money, and oil.  if you recycle paper, that is cutting down on our paper waste by 50%.  same thing with margins on typed documents.  If you reduce your margins to 1/2 an inch, that also save us paper.  Now, this si just my opinion...i'm not that kind of person that forces their opinions on someone else.  You don't have to listen to me...i'm just putting it out their.

xoxo, Marie

Ps: Sorry this post was so long.

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Question of the day#5

Q: How many recyclables do you think the entire school throws away in one 5 day week?
A: Alice: 1,500 items
Callie: 2,000 items
Candy: 1, 274.5 items
Alyssa: 200 items
Marie: 1,800 items
Mrs. Frizzle: 1,000
Michael: 1,500
Sorry! Once again, Scarlett and Audrey are out so, we have to do witout them. : (

Question of the day #4

Q:On a scale of 1 to 10, how wastefull would you say our school is?
Answers: Alice: 8
Alyssa: 6.5
Callie: 8.5
Candy: 8
Mrs. Frizzle: 7
Michael: 8
Marie: 7.5
Sorry! Now Scarlett and Audrey are out sick Why is everyone sick now? Mabey they are playing hookey; who knows...

So, what we did today,

Today, we got to sort trash...whopee!  The trash I sorted smelled so bad, plus, when I got to the trash can all the lunch trash was in, it smelled so bad, I thinkalmost everyone in the room gagged a little bit.  I feel bad for some of the pairs that had bigger classrooms because it took them so much longer, but that gave my partner (Alyssa) and I some time to star figuring out the percents for the amounts of trash/recyclables we were throwing away each day.  Our total average for today was 44%.  we might be wrong! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!  GO GREEN TEEN TEAM/ GREEN TEEN TEAM TEACHER!

Question of the day #2

Q: What recyclabe item do you think we will find the most of when we are sorting trash today;and which class do you think will have the most of that item out of the four classes we are using? (We are using Children's House 1, Lower Elementary 1, Upper Elementary, and Middle School!)
A:Mrs. Frizzle: Paper, Middle School
Candy:Paper, Lower Elementary 1
Audrey: Paper, Children's House 1
Scarlett: Paper, Middle School
Michael: Paper, Middle School
Alyssa:Paper, Middle School
Alice: Paper, Lower Elementary
Marie: Paper, Lower Elementary 1
So, today we are going ot start sorting trash. We are going to sort today (Tuesday), tomorrow (Wednesday), next Monday and Tuesday, the Wednesday and Thursday of the following week and the Monday of the week after that. We are working in teams of 2 to sort all of the trash for the next few weeks even though we won't sort everyday.
PS: Sorry, Callie is out sick today. I'll get her answers from her when she gets back.
Love,
Mrs. Frizzle, Candy, Audrey, Alice, Marie, Scarlett, Alyssa, Callie, and Michael. <3

What we're gonna do today...

So, yesterday we decided that we are going to start sorting the trash in four of our nime classrooms at our school.  Michael and I worked on a tally sheet and Candy, Audrey, Alyssa and Michael found out about this school in Georgia with over 600 students that wen't down to using almost 30 trash bags per day to about 10 bags per day.  They added recycling and composting to their school and since we already have a composter, we need to get people to use it more.  We are sorting through the trash because our principle won't let us have recycling and the planet and envirnment is very important to my class and even if we can't get the recycling bins, we are still going to try and help reduce the amount of trash we are throwing away.

WE LOVE YOU! xoxo

Mrs. Frizzles Middle School Class,

Michael, Alyssa, Candy, Scarlett, Callie, Alice, Audrey, Marie and once again, Mrs. Frizzle. <3

Daily Question #1

Ok, so here is how this is going to work: Everyday, i'm going to ask everyone in our middle school class (7th and 8th graders) a question about the environment, recycling, etc.

Q.: Which individual class, do you think makes the worst impact on the environment?
Mrs. Frizzle: Middle School
Candy:Middle School
Audrey: Middle School
Alice: Middle School
Marie: Middle School
Scarlett: Middle School
Callie: Middle School
Michael: Middle School
Alyssa: Upper Elementary

Our newest idea!

OK! So, we were on this feild trip the other day.  We were doing a ropes course amd we were eating lunch in this pavillion, and we noticed that it had those new compact flourescent lightbulbs.  We think it might be a good isea to use thise in our school, since we are going to start digging throughout trash everyday soon to see what reyclabes we are thowing away.  Even though some of the school already has flourescent bulbs, most of it doesn't, so we figured that would be a good ides to put those in.  WOO!

xoxo, Mrs. Frizzles Middle School Class <3

Hi Hi!

My name is Marie and my school is going  green!  My middle school class is startign a recyclign project at our school.  We just started today adn we are going to blog our journey everyday while we go green!