The journey of building our compost bin!

JANICE JIM
JANICE JIM

MY World @ Tampines Changkat

Posted
29 Sept 2022
Event
29 Sept 2022

To begin the journey of SSDB, children learnt about food wastage - where they can find, what causes food wastage and who are the people who causes food wastage. Children also did a KWL chart about food wastage.

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Following next, children learn about ways to reduce wastage. One main focus involve the building of compost bin.

On the first part, children read a story on “Save the Scrap” by Bethany Stahl. They learnt about how the author save the scraps for the compost bins.

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On the second part, children followed the steps to create their compost bin by doing so in groups.

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Through their learning and discovery, children created their individual bag of compost soil.

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On the last part, in collaboration with the K1s’ fundraising, children used the composted soil to grow some vegetables.

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Let’s see how well the vegetables would grow to be!!

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