This month we were teaching about the three R's, Reduce, reuse, and recycle. We would have liked to go more deeply in all materials the earth offers us, but it came out that paper was our main topic. Though we are collecting our waste separately for over a year now, our students had still participated in a limited way in this. We decided to have one paper boy or girl each week, who in cooperation with a teacher empties all paper bins in school in our green bin outside. We watched several short video's of our local waste collector Sorpa and learned that our paper waste is most likely recycled into toilet paper. 

After visiting the exhibition Rebooked of ten Icelandic artists, who turn old books into art (see under the Recycle blog), we reused Christmas advert-magazines to make pearls for necklaces or bracelets, and made an origami box to make it into a present. The basic origami of a fortune teller became our new Christmas decorations and we played a little with it inspired by the artists of Rebooked.