My recount on saving water.

Hook:

“Yaaay”, I thought in my mind. I was so interested to learn
about how to save water. Our teacher was Sarah, she was an
educator. She was going to teach us how to save water. 

Orientation:

We were also going to do some experiments with water.

She talked about lots of interesting things on how to save water
and on what happened in the past. 

First she showed us a picture of Queens Street. The picture
was black and white. It looked really old. Our teacher Sarah told
us that Queens Street had a river but it wasn’t clean. People
who were doing their pees and poos in chamber pots and threw
the sewage into the river. 

Hotels on Queens Street hired maids.  The maids would throw
the sewage into the harbour. Almost everybody felt disgusted.
The next picture was people collecting the pees and poos from
buckets. In the olden days people used to poo and pee in
buckets. People would get paid to collect the sewage in the
night. Did you know, some people who worked to collect the
pees and poos from the bucket, were so lazy that they just
threw them in the river.

The children did play where the workers would dump the
sewage. One child thought that all that poo was just mud.
It sounded disgusting and it was. Sarah showed us a lot of
pictures and talked about them all.

Finally it was time for the experiments.  Sarah took all of us to
the top court. First Sarah split us into three groups. The first
experiment was to make some rivers, mountains and a volcano
by using rocks, water and a plastic sheet. Every group got a
turn. In my group, we made some small mountains, some
pathways for the rivers and some bridges. It was fun. When
every group finished making their mountains, we poured some
water on them with a watering can to see the number of rivers
made. 

Every group had rivers made. We had four rivers. 

After the fun experiment we went back to class with our teacher
Sarah. When we came back to class Sarah talked to us about
what not to put down drains. If we put inappropriate things
down drains they will block. Sarah also talked to us about not
putting food, dish washing liquid, paint, cooking oil and car oil
down the storm water drain as the water does not get treated
and it enters into the oceans.  

Conclusion

It was fun having shara with us and it was interesting to learn
about how to save water.