Planting seeds in recycled cans

Room 3 children each planted a couple of dwarf bean seeds this week.

Although the weather has been cold we hope with sun and water they will grow on our windowsill. Mrs King had lots of old cans to recycle for our planting.

Soup making

Near the end of Term 2 the Enviro-Gardening Group at school got to make soup.
We used a soup mix but also added some vegetables from our school garden.
The children who made the soup were from Rooms 4,7 and 10
Gee it tasted great on a cold winters' day-yum! Well done kids and Ms Brunton.

Baking vegetables

Studying healthy lunches meant we all got to eat a baked vegetable at school.

Most children had potato or kumera to eat. We found out that these vegetables have hardly any fat in them and are good for you. They tasted delicious on a cold day!

Tupare Walk

Rooms 1,2 and 3 had a Winters' day walk to Tupare gardens recently.
We saw lots of beautiful trees like the native rimu and kauri-but also lots of decidious trees as well. The Junior classes saw and heard the Waiwakaiho River in the distance.

Children enjoyed walking up the zig-zag pathways.It was a lovely afternoon!

Making a bird ball

To attract more birds to our school grounds Room 3 made a 'bird ball'.

We needed dripping,breadcrumbs,some bird seeds and a pinecone to wrap it all round.

We needed to put it in the fridge over night to harden. We had fun!

It is fast being eaten by silvereyes but have a look in the kowhai tree by Room 4.

Planting fun

Room 3 children proudly show off the plants they have put in the ground.
We were lucky to have a fine day and then it rained all weekend to help the plants get established. Thanks to Mrs Small for organising this day and Mr Tapp from DOC for assisting.

Ngahere Reserve

On Friday 3rd June all pupils from Mangorei classes got to plant one native plant each.We enjoyed putting sheep pellets in the holes and then carefully planting these trees in our Ngahere Reserve.