Ecofest 2010

This year we took Susie to Ecofest.

Susie has a wearable art costume designed by Room 10 children based on native plants. She is wearing harakeke, manuka flowers, pohutakawa flowers, a kowhai necklace and a tree fern.

Learning about soil

We did an investigation into what bugs are in our soil. We found heaps of worms and centipedes.

KEGS at Work

We are now a part of the Kids Edible Garden programme so each week our facilitator, Lyndsey, works with children in the garden.

This week we were putting coffee grinds around the garden as free fertiliser. We then made our own fertiliser with chamomile.

We also got to play a game to teach us the Maori names for the vegetables.

More Planting!

Today it was open to the school to help get our seedlings planted up into the root trainers.

Well done to all the juniors who came up so enthusiastic! They filled the root trainers so the middle and senior syndicate children could pot the seedlings.

What a great school team effort.

Plant Propagating

Senior students had their first experience of potting up seedlings into root trainers today. The memorable thing from their first experience must be ANTS!

Yes, ants were happily nesting through the root trainer box. Hence some children were on the task of eliminating ants while others started to pot up some seedlings donated by Titoki Nursery.

However, at the end of the day the ants won and we retreated until we can deal with the invasion!

Roll on ant stories next week.

School On Saturday

For some children it was school in action for our 50th Celebrations.

Room 6 and 10 children made use of the silverbeet in our garden to make silverbeet patties.

What a success! They were delicious!

Stream Monitoring Term 1 2011

A new group of River Rockets, learnt the science of stream monitoring and the Maori perspectives and importance placed on water. Children conducted tests and searched for 'bugs'. Our findings concluded that Poorman Stream was in very good health with many mayflies and caddisflies found easily.