The man guiding us through the recycling center spoke incredibly quiet English. Jean had to shout out all he said, as sort of a translation so we could all understand his explanations. It was quite entertaining to watch the guy practically whisper his explanation and Jean shout out her repeated information.
Above: Jean "translating" from nearly silent English to loud English (to be heard over the recycling machinery).
Above: These are the chips that the cleaned plastics get made into, which are later used to remake bottles or other plastics items. The kids thought it was cool to play with the chips.
Above: Before the plastics are made into chips, they get washed. Jean and her classroom assistant Agnes react to the sludge that comes out of the giant washers (ugh!).
Below: Jean summarizing after we'd gone through the plant.
Getting back to school a little early, we took the time to play with Jean’s parachute.
Star playing with the kids under the parachute.
Above: Lubega “wearing” the parachute.
The kids had a race at one point across the sports field, but Kahan cheated...
...So the 1st graders tackled him to “teach him a lesson”. I love that you can only see his legs here!
During the project class time in the month prior to our field trip, we had been gathering recyclable paper and getting it ready to make new paper. One of our workmen at Heritage made some screens for us to use in making this “new” paper.
Pictured below: Making recycled paper on our big screen (we also had 20 4x6” screens for each individual). We are using the new paper to make Christmas cards.
