Adopt a Park visit

 This week our year 3 / 4 enviro group visited our 'adopted' park - 
William Green Domain. This is our third visit this year. 

During our visit we...

* learnt about the different shaped leaves and what plants or trees they come from

* discovered some interesting wildlife - a red dragonfly, a skink, woodlice, a shiny ladybird bug and some green leaf bugs

* found an awesome 'canoe' - part of a fallen nikau leaf 

* helped the environment by picking up rubbish. 

Happy green bugs!

shiny ladybird

Whose footprints are these? 

spot the lizard!

 

We found lots of plastic - including 5 plastic bottles. We talked about how we can help the environment have less plastic in it by having a wrapper free lunch. 

John - I liked helping the environment

Piper - the most interesting thing I found was the giant canoe (leaf) 

Ayla - I liked finding 2 dragonflies

Ella - I enjoyed picking up rubbish

Aimee - It was very exciting to find a mysterious rucksack (rubbish) I think it might belong to my favourite book character - Wolf Girl (- I love the imagination!) 

Luka - I enjoyed the rubbish hunt

 

Next time we go we will have a closer look at the native trees and plants we planted and see if we can do some weeding around them. 

Enviro artists creating a masterpiece!

 This term a group of budding artists have created an amazing masterpiece to enter into the 

EYE ON NATURE CREATIVE ARTS COMPETITION

** Come and check it out THIS School holidays at Auckland Botanical Gardens! 

They have used a number of materials that would otherwise have ended up in landfill or being recycled. How many can you spot? 

  

 

These students have worked hard during lunchtimes over the last few weeks supported by a fantastic parent - Zeena who inspire the design and put the finished project together. 

* Room 1: Addilyn, and Kimberley

* Room 2: Adwitiya, Annika, Hamreen, Karolina and Zoey.

* Room 3: Rianka

* Room 5: Leah

* Room 6: Selena

* Room 7: Ayla, Jarvis, Piper

 

 

While making this art piece, the students thought about ways 'rubbish' can be used instead of discarded. The students said they now think twice before throwing something away.  

The theme for the competition this year was Wellbeing - Taiao and Me. 

'This design shows living creations thriving where people come to care for the Earth and enjoy peaceful moments.  They're gifted with the beauty of nature and a safe home for all. This piece serves as a reminder that many things can be repurposed when we slow down.  We came up with the concept when brainstorming over things in nature that make us happy.

More information about the competition is HERE

Native tree planting

 Today we planted 14 native trees in our native garden area. 

THANK YOU to Howick Local Board 

for donating these trees to us. 

We planted 6 x karo which we added to our 'native tree line'.

We planted 5 mako trees (wineberry) by the second entrance and 3 ribbon wood trees (mānatu) . 

The girls named the ribbonwood trees - Ronnie, Rosie and Rizzy! 

Sharing our Awesome Enviro Mahi!

 Toady we were every excited to have some visitors from Sunnyhills Primary School; Mrs Daniels and some of their eco leaders. As their school is a Green Gold Enviro School we were keen to impress! 

We created a map with all our enviro areas. 

During their visit we showed them...

* Our 'Traffic Light Bin' system and other waste minimisation initiatives (like the class enviro challenge) 

* Our Garden to Table programme and the veggies gardens - we also handed out some cookies made yesterday as part of Chinese language week, 

* How we minimise waste and use natural resources through our compost systems and the water tank, 

* Ways we are trying to restore the natural environment with tree planting and our native garden,

* Our lizard lounge to attract native skinks,

* Our 'Green Room' - our hub for meeting, recycling and brainstorming ideas!