It’s been really cold at night. Grampa said he wanted to work on something special. So he told me to bring over any empty ice cream buckets we had at home. We had 3. Grampa had 2 buckets.
We started school a couple of weeks ago. My teacher says that our class is going to build an igloo out of 4 litre milk jugs! I’m really excited about that. Miss Rees asked everybody to tell their family to start saving milk jugs because we need over 400 to build one. As soon as we get enough to start the bottom ring we will start gluing them together until it’s finished.
Me and my friend Janaya wanted blow some bubbles. But our bubble bottles were empty! My Mom said she’s not going to keep buying more and more bottles of bubbles when we can keep our old bottles and just refill them.
My Grampa told me that pretty soon they will stop making pennies. Maybe by the time I grow up, there won’t be any more pennies at all! I decided that I want to start saving pennies before they are all gone.
Grampa knows how to make a piggy bank from a milk jug. He helped me make one to save pennies in.
My Sprouts group needs to raise some money for our big end of the year camp out. Some of the other kids wanted to do a bake sale. Some wanted to do a bottle drive. I came up with another idea.
I’ve been trying to think of something to make for Mother’s Day. I had a really good idea! Mom likes the scrap paper Dad brings home from work. It’s paper that has been used on one side. The other side is good. Dad cuts it into 4 pieces. The pieces are just the right size for when you need a piece of paper. But the pieces sometimes don’t stay in an nice stack and they get messy. Mom doesn’t like that.
I have a sad story, but it has a happy ending. AND I found a way to reuse something too. My Mom says that reusing is the second best R of the 3Rs.
