Today is the day we had been looking forward to. We arrived Baozhilin. This was the first time we attended the outside activity, so everyone was very excited about it! We attedned the most interesting group—group B, the moving castle. We made an amazing work by the wasted old paper or useless cardboard and understand the importance of the environmental protection. Therefore, this activity was very meaningful for us. Let's get together to work!

Activity's subject:

Discover Baozhilin—an environmental protection campaign for developing a model park

Activity's place:

Dakeng--Baozhilin

Time:

9:30-12:00, Saturday, September 30^th, 2006

Activity groups:

(Group B) Moving Castle: castle, guards, forest (made by creative materials such as cardboard boxes and newspapers)

Attending member:

Sih-En,Chen ,Yi-Ling,Ko, Ya-Wen,Lin,Tiffany Liao , Ya Chu,Hu,
Yi-Chieh,Haung,  Shu-Yuan,Chang, Shu-Yuan's mom,
Teacher  Hui-Chen, Tsai  , Teacher  Pi-Chu,Lee

Process of activity:

  Firstly, we went to the counter to check in and received the scissor,ink, brushes and tapes. Then, we placed them in a place and took the needed materials from the storeroom. We chose several big paper boxes, several pieces of cardboard and a pile of old newspaper. The box was very big, so two of us took it out. We didn't think it was a tiring work, so our confidence was decreasing a bit. Our teacher let us understand how to plan the castle. We discussed each other for a while. Finally we decided to use the paper boxes as the base form of the castle and decorate something on the top. After that, our teacher assigned everyone a job and then we started to work.

  Firstly, our teacher made the form of the castle with the tape. Because the thickness of each box was different, we spent much time pasting the paper. Shuyuan's mom and she made a big tree with the old papers. They found a steel rack as the bottom, pasted the paper on it and brushed the color. We decorated that tree by drawing some leaves, so it looked vivid. Everyone started painting the box by one's creativity. Some people drew the door, some people drew the windows and some people even drew cars, ships and planes, which refered to army, navy and air force, respectively.  Everyone paid effort on it! We cut the paper after painting, but it was hard to cut it. We put all elaborated pictures on the castle and made a three-dimensional roof. We colored the castle and finally put the complete tree aside. It was our great achievement to make this beautiful castle by the wasted materials.

Shu-Yuan's mom and she were making a big tree.

Shu-Yuan was painting the tree truck.

We worked together.

Yi-Chieh,Haung was drawing an airplane.

 I was drawing an arch for the castle.

 Think about it, what else could we draw?

 Scissored it quickly! We were almost out of time.

Pasted our roof.

This is our work.

We took a picture with our work.

  On that day, Taichung City mayor's wife, Siaoling Shao, especially got there to cheer us up. She felt this activity was very interesting and meaningful. It could also build the concept of the environmental protection to treasure the earth's resource. Our only earth should be protected by people, so the concept of the environmental protection should be developed since a child. Baozhiling activity was held to invite adults and children to join. There were many teacher-student groups and parent-child groups. In fact, each environmental activity simply helps people build the concept of the environmental protection. Let us protect the earth together and guard it! We can make a lot of art work by our creativity. For example, we made a castle by paper boxes and newspaper. The purpose of it was to treasure the resources by recycling, build the correct concept of the environmental protection. Let us expore and practice it!

  How to cherish our earth? Should we cherish the present resources? We often hear “ environmental protection”, but we need to apply it into practice. That is called “to protect our earth.” Let us work together—make the wasted material into a creative one. Vivify the wasted a new life, present a completely new appearance and let the earth resource run continuously. All of these rely on our creativity. That's why we attended Baozhilin creative activity. We wanted to do “environmental protection” by practice and let the earth better.

Other work ( People made the creative work by wood )

 This is an ant. It's cute, isn't it?

An elaborated little horse.

 The most creative work.

It is full of interesting.

 It feels spacious

It looks like a real lion.

A prize awarding ceremony

  We were very glad that we could attend this meaningful activity. The fruit with hard working was always sweet. Baozhilin was held a prize awarding ceremony on the evening of October 28^th. Today I had to receive this prize. It was really surprising and expecting. When I arrived at the meeting place, I heard a wonderful and good song. After a series of splended activities, the nervous awarded time was coming. At first, it was Group A's excellent work and then the champion. Finally, we got the champion. I really wanted to shout “hurray” at that time. Especially the host organization sent us a lucky bag. Bravo! Hopefully we could have the opportunity to join these meaningful activities.

 Soybean’s learning remarks

Sih-En Chen:

“Turn the trash into treasure.” Making the trash into a creative work was interesting and meaningful. My concept of environmental protection imporved a lot for this point.

Yi-Ling Ko:

I established the concept of environmental protection by this activity and learned how to make a castle with the cardboard. It also let me know to cherish my daily supplies.

Ya-Wen Lin:

Cherish the earth resource and recycle, To try your best to do the environmental protection would be the best choice.

Tiffany Liao:

Recycling can decrease the trash and share the burden of the sanitary engineer.

Ya Chu Hu:

Cherish what you have. I firmly believe that if we don't waste any resource, then our earth will be more beautiful.

Yi-Chieh Haung:

Army, navy and air force are mainly to protection our nation; doing the enviornmental protection well is to protect the earth.

Shu-Yuan Chang:

I couldn't imagine that I could make a perfect big tree just by a few materials. I believe people can make interesting work by recycling the current resource.

Teacher  Hui-Chen Tsai:

The earth resource is limited. In our daily life, we can't waste the useful resource. More importantly, we don't produce the redundant trash to decrease the volume of the trash.

Teacher Pi-Chu Lee:

The students completed the work by recycling. It let the whole teachers and students there deeply considerate the importance of the recycling and cherish the resource afterwards.