Fresh From The First Grade

I’m still having issues issues uploading our video, but I thought I’d go ahead and post some of our journal entries from the paper recycling project. These are the steps we took to recycle our own paper:

1. We tore our paper into small pieces and soaked it in water for a while

2. We pureed the paper in a blender then poured it onto an old window screen

3. We strained out the extra water using a shopvac then let our paper air dry for a few days 

After we completed our experiment students to documented how paper is recycled using words and illustrations... these were the results: 

{this 1st grader: The vacuum was easy to draw because it looks just like R2D2 in Starwars! ... love.}

{Yes, unfortunately, it did look quite a lot like bird poop...}