Thank you all for your help in collecting cardboard tubes and boxes.
We have spent time collecting boxes and tubes with the help of our family and friends at St Bernards church to save a tree from being cut down. We have constructed our own Christmas tree from our collection of recycled materials. Together we found out how we could make it balance that took a lot of thought (and propping up for 24hrs.) We talked about the size of the tubes and boxes and how big our tree is. Now we are using other things to begin to make our own decorations.
After making our huge tree some of us have ordered pieces of card to make a picture of a tree. We used the words big, small, long, short and the same to describe the pieces. After we built our trees we counted how many pieces we had looking for which tree had the most pieces on it making it the tallest.
Our love of being green led to other creative activities."We are snipping along the lines to make a tube"
"I have cut lots of lines being careful. My cutting is great"
We used textured paint and listened when an adult said "ready Steady SPLAT"
