Teaching our kids
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Yesterday I had the nicest experience of talking to my youngest about the 3 R's (reduce, reuse recycle). It was great to see him understand why we need to do it and to suggest ways our household could help out. One of those great teachable moments! Reply to this
Yesterday I had the nicest experience of talking to my youngest about the 3 R's (reduce, reuse recycle). It was great to see him understand why we need to do it and to suggest ways our household could help out. One of those great teachable moments! Reply to this
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Although I'm not normally in favour of kids TV and videos etc, one television character that we like in our house is Bob the Builder (our son's obsessed with diggers). The stories are good, but from a green perspective it's great to see that they promote the 3 R's and the characters are often working out how to implement this within their building projects.
Since our son was mobile we've encouraged him to bin things correctly - recycling in the white bin and everything else in the other one. He now asks when he's not sure and generally gets it right, which is great to see.
I find there is a lot of waste from kids (who doesn't!) especially one that likes drawing and cutting, so we have 2 paper piles - one is good paper for drawing / sticking on and the other is the works that are "complete" but not good enough to go on the wall, and they get cut up and put onto new pictures. He's at the stage of learning how to control the scissors, so alsorts gets the chop! Newspaper, magazines, free posters..... a lot of paper goes through him somehow as there's no point in getting good quality paper at this age.
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I remember when they used to put on records for us at school to get to us, they'd have us singalong and they tried to make the songs cool haha...
It worked for most of us though. I try my best not to be a litterbug and not waste paper!
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And by the way, I think TV is a great medium to get the message out. TV seems to have become the new babysitter, and if kids are going to be in front of it all day, they might as well learn something!
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quite, I'd much rather that the things kids watch are educational (not necissarily in an obvious way as it would put some kids off on principle)
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I agree with educating in a not obvious way. Kids seem to be more open to this. Bob the Builder is a great show.
We have been talking a lot with our oldest (hes 7) about the 3 Rs. He is very receptive to it.
My only wish was that the schools did the same! My son brings home so much paper! I wish that they schools could reuse and recycle more of the paper.
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There was a time our teachers would use the back of one worksheet to make copies of other pages to save paper. I wish they'd do that more now, but they think it takes up too much time :(
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I am truly amazed at how much paper my little one brings home. Really, it averages 5 sheets a day. Then a few times a week it is also notes from the school/teachers and announcements and so on. I wish they would email announcements!
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As a teacher, I've always struggled with finding alternative ways to teach the children. A few of the things I have done in the past was (a) send a newsletter describing the hands-on alternative activities we do in the classroom and (b) use the leftover worksheets for scrap paper, cutting practice etc.
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Emailing would probably be more reliable as well - how often do notes get left in bags?
We used to use the backk of computer print out paper for our art work - the old stuff with green lines on it. A dad took some into my son's nursery the other day - a trip down memory lane.
If you've got printouts that aren't confidential, a lot of primary schools and nurserys will happily take it (along with empty boxes, dried pasta, pulses and yogurt tubs for model making)
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Well, last night watching my son play I felt extremely proud (and realised just how much he observes). He was "shopping" and when he was at the till he said "I don't need a bag thank you. I've got one".......
Great! It's a small step, but it's in the right direction.
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I remember being very creative in preschool, we would go out and paint the sidewalks with water or paint pictures using hot wheels dipped in paint and rolled it over paper...we used everything! As a doodler, I was a sucker for any sort of scrap paper. Maybe people should invest some of their recyclables into preschools! :)
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We certainly do, and the nursery encourages it.... we've the nursery boxes, the charity bag, the compost bin, the recycling, then finally the rubbish bin. One day i may even get a wormery so that there is less for the rubbish bin (and some say better for the garden)
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Great idea to donate items to preschools. I never thought of doing this. My son is also a doodler, he will find any scrap of paper and have quite a time with it. We give our little ones junk mail and magazines and such to cut and draw on.
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