I have to admit, this was the homeschool activity I looked forward to most all year...the recycling center tour. I guess being raised by a manufacturer, I've always been fascinated by mechanical processes. And it didn't disappoint! The enormous sorting facility was so cool.
Niels, Holder, and Rowan loved watching the garbage truck dump all the recycling into one pile. Then a bulldozer pushed the pile as high as it could go.
Elaine, Kasandra, and Nancy with a veritable mountain of trash behind them
We were there during lunch break, so we were able to go onto the balcony to see some of the specialized sorting machines, with a nice overlook of Trash Mountain.
Eventually lunch was over, and we saw the machines in action, along with the workers who do some of the sorting by hand.
We then got to see row upon row of sorted plastics, papers, and cardboard as they are ready to be shipped off to manufacturers who actually recycle the products into something new. It was really cool.
The following week the girls spent an entire day building their Jungle Book diorama. We had also been learning about Brazil, so it was perfect timing for our Charlotte Mason book club.
I have to say, theirs was probably the coolest project there. They want to move it to Virginia with us, but I'm trying to have them play with it like crazy now so that we don't move a box :)
The last week we did a tour of Casa San Ysidro in Corrales. The girls had done a Sheep to Shawl art class there in the summer. They loved it, but I don't think this tour was quite so awesome. Our docent was rather boring, others were terrible at knowing how to speak to children and wouldn't let them ask questions. I think it could have been interesting, but the old docents in charge were just not used to kids younger than 10.
I spent the whole time chasing these two around.... :)
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