Plastic Milk Jugs Recycled, Elementary Second Graders Learn The Meaning Of Culture

 

WAYNE – Following Earth Day (April 22), a second-grade class in Wayne recycled over 1,000 plastic milk jugs from their igloo creation.

With the end the Alaska-unit in Mike Jaixen’s second-grade Wayne Elementary class, it was time for an igloo to be recycled. The reason the igloo is built, his class is taught there are different types of igloos built.

Mr. Jaixen combined building an igloo by also recycling.

“We talked about how recycling the jugs will save space in our landfills and we run out of space for landfills,” said Mr. Jaixen. “So, we want to do anything we can to help out the environment.”

After about eight weeks of an elementary school-wide collection of plastic milk jugs, a total of 1,005 jugs were used being constructed with about 120 hot glue sticks donated from parents. It took Mr. Jaixen 13 hours to keep adding to the igloo a little at a time.

The class was also taught about culture around the world.

“In how people don’t eat the same foods that we eat, they dress differently and they live in different types of homes,” Mr. Jaixen added. “So, they learned that this could be one type of a shelter that people could live in.”

Other elementary classes have come in to experience the igloo.

Tuesday morning it was time for the igloo to come down as 21 of the 22 students in attendance carried several small and large pieces down the stairs and out the door.

Gill Hauling from Jackson brought over a truck to pick up the recycled milk jugs.

“The kids have a blast with it,” Mr. Jaixen mentioned. “It’s a great learning environment to go into. They love to go into do individual work or group work; I do a lot of reading to the kids inside the igloo.”

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